Tonka Bean:Perfume Ingredient Scent: Vanilla, spicy

Tonka Bean:

Perfume Ingredient Scent: Vanilla, spicy

• Tonka bean is from a plant native to Brazil that has a vanilla-sweet fragrance with hints of spices like cinnamon and clove. It originally was used as an alternative to vanilla, but has become popular on its own.

• Tonka bean is a tree. The fruit and seed are used to make medicine.Despite serious safety concerns, people take tonka bean as a tonic; to increase sexual desire (as an aphrodisiac); and to treat cramps, nausea, cough, spasms, tuberculosis, wasting due to chronic disease, swelling caused by a blockage in the lymph system (lymphedema), and a parasitic disease called schistosomiasis.

• Some people apply tonka bean directly to the affected area for mouth ulcers, earache, and sore throat.

• In manufacturing, coumarin, one of the active constituents of tonka bean, is used as a flavoring and fragrance in various products in food, liquor, tobacco, soap, and cosmetics.In foods, the seeds are used to make a nutty-flavored beverage.