NOUN
- fragrant black nutlike seeds of the tonka bean tree; used in perfumes and medicines and as a substitute for vanilla
- tall tropical South American tree having pulpy egg-shaped pods of fragrant black almond-shaped seeds used for flavoring
How To Use tonka bean In A Sentence
- It's bergamot, lavender, lemon and jasmine, with ballast provided by tonka bean. Times, Sunday Times
- Tonka bean and hay absolute at the base along with ho wood very linalool rich at the heart complete the fougere picture and the pine was replaced by rosemary verbenone to add clean, herbaceous freshness. Lavender-Violet
- I thought this would be saccharine, but the sweetness dries down into a smooth base of cedar and tonka bean. Times, Sunday Times
- What is a tonka bean? Times, Sunday Times
- This fragrance has hints of rose, peach, cinnamon, jasmine, freesia, Tonka bean, cedar, sandalwood and carnations. and classified as sultry and refined.
- Created by Sophie Labbé, the fragrance is a blend of ginger, coriander, elemi, vetiver, cedar, labdanum and tonka bean. Archive 2009-06-01
- Tonka beans, sweet woodruff, and melilot are natural sources of coumarins commonly found in herbal teas.
- Through rare elements like black hemlock extract and the smell of raw opium, with tuberose absolute, tonka bean, treemoss and animalistic notes like synthetic castoreum and cistus ladanum you get the lingering impression of warm and radiant flesh. Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion
- Tonka bean, musk and vanilla surround a heart of iris, adding warmth and sophistication.
- A case report linked teas made from three coumarm-containing herbs - tonka bean, melilot, and woodruff - with high prothrombm time, although the type and amount of coumann was not reported.
