No. 4 · Beans and hay · Batch 12
FABA
Tonka beans are black and wrinkled outside and smell of coumarin, like sweet woodruff. Tobacco absolute and vetiver root take it somewhere drier.
- Top
- Bergamot, Clary sage
- Heart
- Tonka bean absolute, Tobacco absolute
- Base
- Vetiver, Benzoin
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On skin
Top · First minute
Bergamot, Clary sage
Bergamot and herbal clary sage.
Heart · First hour
Tonka bean absolute, Tobacco absolute
Tonka: hay, almond paste, warm tobacco leaf.
Base · Next morning
Vetiver, Benzoin
Dry, earthy vetiver root with a sweet edge.
- Carries
- Arm’s length
- Best for
- Cold months
- Strength
- Eau de parfum
What it is made of
Coumarin, the molecule tonka beans are full of, was one of the first aroma materials made in a lab, and with vanillin it began modern perfumery in the late nineteenth century. Vetiver is a grass whose scent lives in its roots, which grow two to four metres straight down.
People wearing it
Did the fitting with Sunil, walked round the walls for an hour like he said, and came back for Faba. Right call.