Tonka
The opening strikes warm and spiced—clove and anise weave through bright bergamot like incense smoke through sunlight.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Sweet95
- Vanilla80
- Cinnamon70
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Clove
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Jasmine
- Almond
- Labdanum
- Honey
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes warm and spiced—clove and anise weave through bright bergamot like incense smoke through sunlight. It's immediate and unapologetic, the sort of start that announces itself across a room without shouting. Within minutes, the sharpness softens into something honeyed and resinous, jasmine petals dusted with labdanum's amber-dark sweetness.
The drydown settles into tonka and vanilla, but not the clean, sugared vanilla of gourmands. This is earthier, almost tobacco-tinged, with musk lending a skin-close warmth. The spices never fully disappear—they hum underneath, keeping the sweetness from turning cloying.
Tonka feels built for cooler weather and close quarters. It's the sort of scent that lingers on wool scarves and in the crook of an elbow, comforting without being overtly soft. Best suited to those who want warmth with a little edge, sweetness tempered by smoke.
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.
