Tonka Bean Absolute Tiny Sample ( 6 drops) . Eden botanicals

Botanical Name: Dipteryx odorata (Aubl.) Willd.
Origin: Brazil
Process: Solvent Extracted Absolute
Plant Part: Dried Beans (Seeds)
Cultivation: Conventional
Use: Natural Perfumery. Always dilute.
Note: Base to Middle Note, Excellent Fixative
Aroma Family: Gourmand
Aroma: Very rich, caramel-like, powdery-sweet aroma of new mown hay with a warm herbal and soft tobacco-like undertone; very tenacious.

Our Tonka Bean Absolute is one of the finest perfume ingredients for fixation of natural perfumes. The absolute is obtained from Dipteryx odorata, a large tropical tree native to Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela, also cultivated in Nigeria and elsewhere in West Africa. It bears fruit containing a single black seed or ‘bean’. The beans are removed from the ripe fruit and dried, then soaked in rum or alcohol for 12-24 hours to make them swell. When removed from the alcohol bath, they become dried and shrunken, after which a whitish powder of crystallized coumarin progressively accumulates on them. The beans are then coarsely pulverized and subjected to a two-step process – solvent extraction followed by an alcohol wash – to produce the absolute.

Tonka Bean absolute is used as a non-floral sweetener for introducing warm notes in chypres, fougères, new mown hay bases, Oriental bases, Lavender bouquets, etc. Prior to the availability of synthetic coumarin, tinctures of Tonka beans were long used as a source of natural coumarin, the compound responsible for the beans’ sweet Vanilla-like aroma.3 Groom states “About 10% of all modern quality perfumes contain Tonka, examples being Je Reviens, Raffinée, and Red, and it appears among the main ingredients of some 13% of quality fragrances for men.”

PLEASE NOTE: Tonka Bean Absolute is not recommended for therapeutic purposes; it is intended for use in perfumery only.