Note

Tolu Balsam

Tolu balsam smells sweet and warmly resinous, with vanilla-like softness, gentle cinnamon warmth, and a faint floral facet. It rounds out the base and blends with amber accords, woods, flowers, and other balsams.

In 49 perfumes. Usually found in the drydown.

Opening
0%
Heart
17%
Drydown
83%
Found in Six, Duran Duran Black Moonlight and White On White

Most popular with tolu balsam

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to tolu balsam more often than chance would predict.

How it reads

Sweet and balsamic above all. Reaches for vanilla, warm spicy and animalic far more often than the catalogue as a whole.

  • sweet
  • balsamic
  • woody
  • vanilla
  • warm spicy
  • citrus
  • fruity
  • powdery