Guerlain Tonka Imperiale EDP - L'Art Et La Matiere - Discontinued - Last call 8 ml

Guerlain Tonka Imperiale was released in 2010 as part of the L'Art et la Matiere collection.  A gourmand oriental created by Thierry Wasser, it is composed around the tonka bean.  - with its emphasis on vanilla and almond, with a lovely hay notes floating around, exudes a creamy sweetness and is historically one of Guerlain's often used ingredients.  Sadly Discontinued.

Guerlain Tonka Imperiale has notes of rosemary, almond, tobacco, honey, facets of hay and balsamic, tonka bean, vanilla, Guerlinade accord. Tonka Imperiale is an Eau de Parfum. 

Review of Guerlain Tonka Imperiale

Fragrantica - "Tonka Imperiale is the one so-called oriental "gourmand" -due to the almond- that is really elegand and lady-like at the same time. The sweetness has a soft balance that makes it wearable. The tonka bean, almond and tobacco have a perfect role in this fragrance that make it a well combination right on the nose. This is a pure perfection gourmand and not gourmand at the same time :) A masterpiece.."

Fragrantica - "This is a masterpiece of perfumery, a legendary fragrance from an amazing house!! This opens resinous, herbal and green form the pine tree, rosemary, maybe amber, a bit dark from the incense and the tobacco but under that there is the gourmand part of the fragrance with creamy tonka almond and some jasmine. It's so well blended and not so easy to detect the notes, the quality is at the highest level. As it goes to the drydown this becomes more like a dough and this is the only similarity that this shares with Dior's Feve Delicieuse (to me they are completely different). I find it so unique and complex that doesn't remind me of any other fragrance!...Overall, this is one of the most divine smells i encountered in my fragrance journey! This is a masterpiece and in my opinion the clear winner in the tough "best tonka" battle. The performance leaves a lot to be desired but the smell makes up for it! A must try for everyone who loves the art of perfumery!"

Fragrantica - "You enter the most lovely Coffee shop in Paris and there is wonderful patisserie awaiting for you next door to grab your fav sweet delicacies and go!  This fragrance is Paris in a bottle...the best Tonka fragrance on the Market! Still... this a Fragrance i will cherish for the rest of my life! Thank you Guerlain! Thank you Thierry Wasser!  10/10! Masterpiece!"

Fragrantica - "Upon first spritz Tonka Imperiale is intoxicating. The Tonka and the Tobacco are prominent on my skin. The Almond adds a gorgeous Powdery nutty essence too. The Bergamot is not too strong but it is noticeable as well. I am in the highest of Heavens....I have a strange addiction to Tonka Imperiale. The truth is usually when I wear it I try not to dissect it but just enjoy the olfactory ride. It is well worth it. I will always own a bottle of this Earthy well formulated masterpiece of a fragrance. Modern art it is! Thank you and much love to its genius creator Thierry Wasser. From me it gets a 10/10 there is not a doubt!"

Fragrantica - "This is the best smelling fragrance I have ever smelled for fall and winter. I have about 180 fragrances, mostly niche and indie but also lots of designers. I've always come back to this and I've never been able to put my nose on anything that smells better than this for the fall and winter.  To me, this is a very herbal and woody tonka liquer type scent. This is absolutely not a gourmand fragrance in my opinion. Yes, the vanilla and tonka provide sweetness - but the rosemary, cedar and pine in the base are absolutely balancing aspects. The contrast of the medicinal piney and herbal notes with the sweet dark tonka makes for a totally unique, almost soapy sweet green syrupy tonka. Truly magnificent, and one of those scents that created a scent impression that you will never forget....This masterpiece manages to be clean, sharp and woody/herbal and syrupy dark smooth sweet at the same time."

Fragrantica - "Intoxicating boozy elegant beautiful Tonka, what a masterpiece.
In 2013 I was discovering guerlain L'Art et la Matiere line with the old bottles and once the salesman sprayed this I was like I'm in a dream and I was too young for things like this it was one of my first things to bring me inside fragrances world, I bought it because I love it so much and I know what is guerlain mean, I was visiting guerlain Paris boutique yearly with my mom since I was 5 years old. I have the new bottle and they are the same but the new one is a bit stronger and the older one have a little bit powdery feel to it compared to the new one. They are the same but I got these feelings sometimes not always. Beautiful and the best tonka fragrance easily."