Le Labo · 2018 · Daphné Bugey

Tonka 25

VersionEau de Parfum

Le Labo says

You’ll smell orange flower absolute, cedar atlas, styrax resins, absolute tonka, musks and vanilla.

The house’s page

The drawn Tonka 25 bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Tonka 25’s scent picture, a draft: bitter orange, cedar, styrax, tonka, musks, vanilla drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Heartthe first hours

Tonka 25, heart: Bitter orange, Musks

Dry-downhours later

Tonka 25, dry-down: Cedar, styrax, Tonka, Vanilla, Patchouli, Iso E Super

On the label

What’s inside it

14 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

2 citrus3 herbs & lavender4 florals3 woods1 sweet1 spices

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender3

Linalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals4

Neroli oilGeraniolGeranyl acetateFarnesol

Woods3

Cedarwood oilPatchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet1

Coumarin (tonka)

Spices1

Isoeugenol

Not in Ingredients yet4

Cinnamyl alcohol, not in Ingredients yetHexadecanolactone, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetPinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

Named by Le Labo, never on a label

Styrax resinsAbsolute tonkaMusks, not in Ingredients yetVanilla

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

Our match of the labels

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Counted from the printed lists: 14 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.