Le Labo · 2018 · Daphné Bugey

Tonka 25

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5
Le Labo asks $348 for 100 ml
50 ml$250
100 ml$348

VersionEau de Parfum

Almond-sweet tonka and vanilla over orange blossom, cedar, a smoky styrax resin and soft musk.

The drawn Tonka 25 bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

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

Heartas it settles

Tonka 25, heart: Bitter orange, Isoeugenol (clove)

Dry-downwhat stays

Tonka 25, dry-down: Cedar, Styrax, Tonka (coumarin), Musks, Vanilla, Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

What’s inside it

What the label names

18 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus4 herbs & lavender5 florals3 woods1 sweet2 spices1 musks

2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Bleu de ChanelChanel · shares cedar (Atlas cedar), tonka, cashmere knit and vanilla$173 for 100 ml · about half of Tonka 25’s $348
Chrome LegendAzzaro · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), cedar (Atlas cedar), tonka and cashmere knit
Leonie IntenseMaison Alhambra · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), cedar (Atlas cedar), cashmere knit and vanilla$24 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Tonka 25’s $348
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.