"Tonka bean absolute contains a high percentage of coumarin. ~ Suzanne Fischer-Rizzi, The Complete Aromatherapy Handbook Tonka bean gladdens the heart, creates certain calm, and throws everything into a friendly light." It suggests images of sun-drenched meadows and sweet smelling flowers. "The fragrance of tonka bean oil seems like a gentle, joyful melody. ~ Jennifer Peace Rhind, Fragrance and Wellbeing Tonka bean is often paired with vanilla, where it can give a coconut-like dry-down." Tonka is also important in the fougère category, where it typically forms an accord with lavender and oakmoss. a floral aldehydic fragrance, where it is used along with natural vanilla to complement the rose, jasmine and tuberose accords. "As well as imparting a sweet, powdery accord to fragrances, tonka bean is also used as a fixative, and can be found in the basenotes of many fragrances. Today, it is still used in some countries to flavor Tobacco. For a long time, coumarin was used in cooking as a substitute for Vanilla. The beans are then dried to allow an aromatic substance called coumarin to form.Ĭoumarin is what gives tonka beans their sweet, caramel vanilla-like fragrance. A single, solitary bean grows wild within each fruit, like a lone pearl tucked inside an oyster. Tonka seeds or 'beans' grow inside the fat fruits of the Dipteryx odorata tree. These beautiful beans grow wild throughout Central and South America and can also be found in Africa. If you want to create a sweet-yet-robust blend, Tonka Bean Absolute is your best friend! This rich, tenacious, vanilla-velvet aroma is used to sweeten grassy, hay-based, balsamic bouquets – a refreshing alternative to florals. Tonka Bean Absolute is an olfactory usher that guides natural perfumes along their path to aromatic transcendence. It is best experienced in dilution bottled with 50% Organic Biodynamic Alcohol it is ready to go for use in exquisite perfumery as a fixative and aromatherapy blends.Ĭontraindication: Can be photosensitizing to the skin (due to the coumarin compounds) if applied in high concentration and exposed to direct sunlight. Uses: This thick absolute is solid at room temperature. Scent Description: Rich and tenacious, with herby notes of sweet hay, tobacco and marzipan.īlends well with: Jasmine, Vanilla, Rose, Ylang, Tobacco, Oakmoss, Tuberose, Lemon, Rockrose, Lime, Hay, Bergamot, Orris Root, Vetiver, Spikenard, Grapefruit, Coffee Bean, Cardamom, Lavender, Cinnamon, Black Pepper, Patchouli, Tobacco, and Carrot. DetailsĬomposition: 50% Dipteryx odorata + 50% Organic Biodynamic AlcoholĬonsistency: Thick viscosity yet pourable with the alcohol. It is used to sweeten grass and hay-based perfumes and to highlight warm notes with its rich, amber, almond-like, carmelicious essence. Captured from the almond-shaped seeds or "beans" of the tropical Dipteryx odorata tree, Tonka Bean is an aromatic alternative to vanilla bean. The treasure of Tonka Bean Absolute is found in its fantastic fixative quality for natural perfumes.
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