Description
Tonka Bean Absolute High Quality Essential Oil
5ml
Natural Solvent Extracted Hexane Free
Viscous oil
Artisan Made in France
Tonka Beans are imported from Venezuela
The crystallization of this oil is completely amazing to see, and the Tonka Bean is just meant to have forgiveness when working with the oil.. The warm and intensely scented Vanilla and Tobacco Cinnamonic notes that will make you take a trip to the late 1960s to early 1970s. You know that sweet aroma of freshly polished suede leather and that overly designed frosting pink vanilla cakes that your grandmother would make for birthdays and holidays.
Make you feel the warmth and smell of a delicious cup of hot cocoa from Mexico, or walking in the shuk of spices and sweet baklava on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, or breathing in the rich aromatic desserts filling the air from quaint little Cafes while walking on the boardwalk off the coast of southern France.
Tonka is a rich, gorgeous oil, which has a memorable, timeless scent one cannot forget. A little-known fact about tonka bean is it was employed in the scenting of Cuban cigars, and in a variety of snuff products. The bean is also known as “tonquin bean” according to Webster’s dictionary.
Which is why one can say they smell a hint of sweetgrass and sweet tobacco, sometimes a slight chocolate and vanilla mix. All of those notes are seemingly common, but this extraction is oh so coveted by natural perfumers and chefs around the world. A few drops of the absolute will add a little sweet spice love to your next perfume essential oil compositions.
Blend with Lavender, Lavender absolute, Cacao absolute, Onycha absolute, Tobacco absolute, Clary Sage, and sweet Joppa Orange.
Tonka absolute can crystallize over time, but returns to liquid if placed in a warm, almost hot water bath. We recommend complete forgiveness if it doesn’t comply fully.
Bible Reference
It is believed that Jacob lured Esau from the fields using the sweet tonka bean by adding it to his lentil soup and sweet bread. The sweet spice aroma made Esau have increased hunger, so that he would want to trade his birthright as firstborn to Jacob to eat the delicious lentil soup and bread. Jacob knew that his brother despised his birthright this why he devised a way to legally trade with him through his stomach. See Gen 25:29-34
Also, it is said that in 2 Kings 4:38that possibly the tonka bean was added in the recipe of lentil stew here as well, which says “Elisha went back down to Gilgal. There was a famine there. While he was consulting with the guild of prophets, he told his servant, “Put a large pot on the fire and cook up some lentil stew for the prophets.
When food was in short supply, it was not uncommon to use flavors such as a variety of beans like coffee or vanilla beans, cinnamon, coriander, garlic etc, in lentil and vegetable stews for important people such as prophets, priests, kings, and tribe leaders. There is some evidence in Egyptian writings that the Tonka Bean was traded on the spice trade routes in the Middle East, and also written about in the Ebers Papyrus Egyptian medical writing.
