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Tonka bean opens with a dense, nutty sweetness that feels like roasted almond dusted with powdered sugar, immediately announcing a gourmand-amber character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Nutty60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Labdanum
- Tonka Bean
- Ginger
By the editors · 2 min readTonka bean opens with a dense, nutty sweetness that feels like roasted almond dusted with powdered sugar, immediately announcing a gourmand-amber character. Labdanum arrives seconds later, folding a resinous, leathery warmth around the tonka so the sweetness never turns sugary; instead it gains a smoky, slightly animalic depth that lingers close to skin. Ginger is not listed in the pyramid yet a soft, dry spice flickers throughout, keeping the accord from flattening into pure caramel. As minutes pass the composition settles into a seamless, wool-lke cocoon where the tonka’s coumarin facets glow against the labdanum’s ambergris shadows, projecting a quiet, skin-hugging sillage that feels like cashmere washed with vanilla. Projection stays intimate for six-to-eight hours, ideal for office or travel in cool weather.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
