A*Men Pure Tonka

Thierry Mugler A*Men Pure Tonka EDT opens with a strong projection of sweet, spicy, coffee, and gourmand accords. The opening is intense, very aromatic, projecting, delectable, and very pleasant. The tonka is a very prominent opening accord, aromatic, sweet, vanilla, cherry, almond, spicy, slightly cinnamon-like, brown sugar, caramel-like, with a nutty hint; the coffee is also noticeable and prominent, a black roast, intense and aromatic coffee note, which balances quite well the sweetness of the tonka. The cacao works with the tonka creating a noticeable accord with a hit of chocolate, a note evocative of the aroma of cacao powder. The mint and lavender are opening notes, but they are barely noticeable, the tonka, vanilla, and coffee take the lead of the fragrance very quickly. The patchouli is just a soft supporting green touch but noticeable. Both the vanilla and licorice are support base notes, adding a sweet aromatic and soft spicy touch, respectively but are not as strong as the tonka or coffee. The fragrance is relatively linear, the mint and lavender are barely noticeable during the quick opening, they dissipate soon after; on the other hand, the base notes, particularly tonka, coffee, cacao, are noticeable as soon as the fragrance is applied and continue to grow and intensify towards the dry-down. Once Thierry Mugler A*Men Pure Tonka EDT has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a strong projection, very sweet, tonka, coffee, cacao, and vanilla fragrance with spicy, faint green, and floral accords. The fragrance feels bold, comforting, delectable, exotic, gourmand, heavy, imposing, intense, inviting, masculine, mature, modern, natural, nicely-blended, nocturnal, rich, sweet, warm, and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020 (#0531071). WOW RATING: 10/10. The strong, sweet, tonka, coffee, and cacao notes are delightful and impressive. DISLIKE RATING: 2/10. The fragrance is very tonka sweet and the coffee is noticeable. UNIQUENESS: 10/10. The notes are relatively common, but the resulting scent is unique. MASS APPEAL: 9/10. This is a sweet fragrance that most people will enjoy. PROJECTION: 5/10. Good, about 5 feet around the wearer. SILLAGE: 10/10. Outstanding, 10 feet and beyond feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 3-4 atomizations. LONGEVITY: 8/10. Impressive, about 8 hours, it projects well for about 5 hours. SEASONS: Winter, spring, fall, colder days, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, casual, holidays, romantic, dating, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 7/10. This is a great fragrance for the mild and cold months of the year. GENDER: Masculine, the coffee, and spicy accords lean it to the masculine side. AGES: 20 and above. RECOMMENDATION: Thierry Mugler A*Men Pure Tonka can be purchased for about $160. It is a fantastic and intense tonka fragrance that has become rare and pricy. If the price is a problem, Thierry Mugler A*Men Pure Malt is a great alternative. This is a great buy. BLIND-BUY: No, sample it first. SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. • Costume National 21 is a delicious, ambery, milk, vanilla, and tonka fragrance. • Dior Feve Delicieuse EDP is a fantastic intense, sweet, vanilla, cacao, caramel, praline, cherry, milk, and resinous fragrance. • Dua Fragrances Beauteous Delight is a very good clone of Dior Feve Delicieuse. • Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille is a great boozy, and vanilla fragrance. • Hugo Boss The Scent Private Accord EDP is a good, unique, short-lived, sweet vanilla, Maninka, coffee, and cacao fragrance. • Kilian Back to Black is a great, very sweet, honey, tobacco, and almond fragrance. • Kilian Black Phantom EDP is a fantastic, intense, delicious coffee, boozy rum, sweet caramel, and dark chocolate fragrance. • Mancera Aoud Cafe EDP is a good, mild, sweet, coffee, woody, and ambery fragrance. • Montale Chocolate Greedy is an intimate, very sweet, cacao, vanilla, and tonka bean fragrance. • Nishane Fan Your Flames is a great, intense, rum, tobacco, woody, and tonka fragrance. • Parfums De Marly Oajan EDP is a great, intense, spicy, cinnamon, sweet, honey, vanilla, tonka bean, and resinous fragrance. • Rochas Man EDT is mild, delicious, sweet, coffee, vanilla, and resinous fragrance. • Salvatore Ferragamo Uomo EDT Men is a good, tonka and tiramisu fragrance. • Salvatore Ferragamo Uomo Signature EDP Men is a good, sweet, leather, coffee, and tonka fragrance. • Thierry Mugler A*Men Pure Malt EDT is a fantastic, strong, sweet vanilla, boozy, malt, whiskey, resinous amber, and coffee fragrance. • Tiziana Terenzi Al Contrario is an exquisite, malt, woods, cacao, and sugar cane gourmand fragrance. • Tom Ford Noir Extreme EDP is a great, delicious, sweet, dessert-like, and floral fragrance. • Thierry Mugler A*Men Pure Tonka EDT is a fantastic, intense, very sweet, tonka, coffee, cacao, and vanilla fragrance. SUMMARY: A strong projection, very sweet, tonka, coffee, cacao, and vanilla fragrance with spicy, faint green, and floral accords. The fragrance feels bold, comforting, delectable, exotic, gourmand, heavy, imposing, intense, inviting, masculine, mature, modern, natural, nicely-blended, nocturnal, rich, sweet, warm, and very pleasant.

SIPPING A VANILLA-SCENTED SWEET CAPPUCCINO It's a cold winter morning in central Lisbon. There is a light drizzle in the air. Lots of people rush in all directions to avoid getting wet by the annoying humidity that penetrates their clothes. Inside the Rossio train station, there is an infernal noise of splashing footsteps from people getting in and getting out. It is still too early to care for wandering tourists and the current crowd just wants to arrive on time to their workplaces and as dry as possible. At the train station Starbucks counter there is a bunch of people hurrying to drink a quick expresso or a slower "galão" (Portuguese cappuccino-type hot beverage). The front esplanade seeks carefree customers, but it's not yet the time for the leisure people that will surely crowd the place from mid-morning onwards. Only one person was sitting in front of one round table. It was a gray-haired man, wearing a tweed dark suit and a beige Burberry raincoat. Somehow he really did not seem to fit in that ambiance as probably he was the only person not in a hurry besides myself. I sat in front of a nearby table facing the back of the lone customer. There was a fantastic scent of a yummy cappuccino sweetened by dark sugar and vanilla powder lingering in the air. I just asked the impatient waiter to bring the same for me. To my astonishment, he brought me a buttered toast and a black tea. Only then did I realise that the strong but elegant scent came from the man itself. Somehow that scent felt a lot more appropriate for the foggy wet morning than the fragrance I was wearing. I politely asked the elegant man what perfume he was wearing even if I already suspected of a Mugler signature. Pure Tonka is a linear but passionate and lively fragrance, with a strong accord of toasted sweet tonka, flourishing from the very opening till the end of the dry down, blended with coffee and cocoa cappuccino, and flavoured by an also gourmand vanilla. The lingering cappuccino aroma with whiffs of toasted caramel is pretty strong, although it starts to faint before the tonka and vanilla duo. Sometimes the cappuccino note seems to be heavier on the coffee side and some other times leans more towards a dark chocolate scent. Well for me the cappuccino scent is all about coffee and cocoa anyway. Some people claim that there are notes of liquorice and crème brullè in this fragrance. I just don't notice them. However, I do feel a heavy sweet presence of dark toasted caramel but it may be just the Venezuelan tonka leaving that sweet impression. Another non-listed note I sense in this fragrance is tar, a pleasant tar that leaves a smoky trail. Without any doubt, this is a unisex fragrance for me, even if a lavender faint note is present to make it more masculine. Here is my math for Thierry Mugler's Pure Tonka: ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ - Scent Opening: 10.0 (cappuccino, coffee and tonka) - Scent Dry Down: 10.0 (coffee, vanilla and a light smoky trail) - Longevity: 9.0 (2 good sprays may last up to 10 hours) - Sillage: 8.0 (6 feet at its peak with just 2 sprays; quite good projection for almost 3 hours) - Uniqueness: 9.5 (close to New Haarlem Bond No 9 and a distant cousin of Rochas Men) - Wearability: 8.0 (mainly a mild to cold weather scent; you may use it either outdoors or indoors, day or night) - Versatility: 7.5 (very sexy, good for leisure, clubbing, socializing, events, restaurants, dates, romancing, intimacy, weddings, ... not good for the office, informal meetings, small spaces, work out, beach and places where you may sweat) - Compliments: 9.0 (This fragrance will please a wide range of people of both genders; It's quite a compliment magnet. The number of compliments I received while wearing it today exceeded my expectations ... even from my wife :-)) - Quality: 9.0 (Above average quality, good performance, top quality ingredients, nice heavy flask, .. almost perfect but I take 1 point due to one of the lousiest sprayers I have ever experienced) - Presentation: 8.0 (my note for all the A * Men flasks) - Price: 7.0 (100 ml non-tester for € 42 + shipping... 4 years ago) ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Overall rating: 8.64 / 10.00 - between 7 and 8 = above average; - between 8 and 9 = recommended; - bigger than 9 = don't miss it; My opinion: I recommend this fragrance; it's a gourmand fragrance with a bit of smokiness and pleasing both women and men. I really like it very much. Music: George Michael - Careless Whisper

It's a cold winter morning in central Lisbon. There is a light drizzle in the air. Lot's of people rush in all directions to avoid getting wet by the annoying humidity that penetrates their clothes. Inside the Rossio train station there is an infernal noise of splashing footsteps from people getting in and getting out. It is still to early to care for wandering tourists and the current crowd just wants to arrive on time to their work places and as dry as possible. In the train station Starbucks counter there is a bunch of people hurrying to drink a quick expresso or a slower "galão" (portuguese cappuccino). The front esplanade seeks for carefree customers, but it's not yet the time for the leisure people that will surely crowd the place from mid morning onwards. Only one person was sitting in front of one of the round tables. It was a grey haired man, wearing a tweed dark suit and a beige Burberry raincoat. Somehow he really did not seem to fit in that ambiance as probably he was the only person not in a hurry besides myself. I sat in front of a nearby table facing the back of the lone customer. There was a fantastic scent of a yummy cappuccino sweetened by dark sugar and vanilla powder lingering in the air. I just asked the impatient waiter to bring the same for me. For my astonishement he brought me a buttered toast and black tea. Only then I realized that the strong but elegant scent came from the man itself. Somehow that scent felt a lot more appropriated for the foggy wet morning than the fragrance I was wearing. I politely asked the elegant man what perfume he was wearing even if I already suspected of a Mugler signature. Pure Tonka is a linear but passionate and lively fragrance, with a strong and sweet accord of tonka flourishing from the very opening start till the end of the drydown, blended with coffee and cocoa, and flavoured by vanilla. The gourmand cappuccino aroma is pretty strong, although it starts to faint before the tonka and vanilla duo. Sometimes the cappuccino note seems to be heavier on the coffee side and some other times leans more towards a dark chocolate scent. Well for me a cappuccino scent is all about coffee and cocoa anyway. Some people claim that there notes of licorice and crème brullè in this fragrance. i just don't notice them. However I do feel an heavy sweet presence of dark caramel but it may be just the venezuelan tonka leaving that sweet impression. Another non listed note I sense in this fragrance is tar, a pleasant tar that leaves a smoky trail. Without any doubts this is an unisex fragrance for me, even if a lavender faint note is present to make it more masculine. Here is my math for Thierry Mugler's Pure Tonka: Scent Opening: 10.0 (my judgement) Scent Dry Down: 10.0 (my judgement) Longevity: 9.0 (2 good sprays may last 8~10 hours) Sillage: 8.0 (6 feet at its peak with just 2 sprays) Uniqueness: 9.5 (close to New Haarlem Bond No 9 and a distant cousin of Rochas Men) Wearability: 8.0 (mainly a mild to cold weather scent; you may use it either in outdoors or indoors, day or night) Versatility: 7.5 (very sexy, good for leisure, clubbing, socializing, events, restaurants, dates, romancing, intimacy, weaddings,... not good to the office, informal meetings, small spaces, work out, beach and places where you may sweat) Compliments: 9.0 (This fragrance will please to a wide range of people of both genders; It's quite a compliment magnet. The number of compliments I received while wearing it today exceeded my expectations) Quality: 9.0 (Above average quality, good performance, top quality ingredients, nice heavy flask,.. almost perfect but I take 1 point due to one of the lousiest sprayers I have ever experienced) Presentation: 8.0 (my note for all the A*Men flasks) Price: 7.0 (100 ml non tester for € 42 + shipping) Overall rating: 8.64/10.00 I recommend this fragrance; it's a gourmand fragrance with a bit of smokiness and that may please both women and men. I really like it very much.

This is a very solid addition to the A*Men line and one of the most different flankers out there other than the stuff like Pure Shot/Energy and B*Men. It opens up with a hefty dose of aromatic lavender, a little bit on the light purple side, fresh and pleasantly synthetic in a sort of plasticky way. The lavender has some bite to it, and I like how Mugler avoided using some kind of faceless, anonymous lavender and instead chose something with a little character. The tonka enters alongside it not long after and for a little while you have a great combination of the two--a fresh aromatic top over a sweeter, warmer heart. On my skin the lavender lasts with a bold presence for about 15 minutes to a half hour before it begins to settle in and blend with the rest of the fragrance. On fabric, the lavender lasts for hours, on equal par with the tonka. Anyway, the tonka accord is spot on, in my opinion. It's not your standard vague ambery sweet stuff that's found in the base of fragrances like Eros, AHSEE, or Code. It's much more distinct, as if a lot of effort and care went into making it the right way and really treating the tonka as formidable, multi-dimensional note. You get various facets of the tonka here: First, there's that sweet, caramelic heart of the bean, its most gourmand element, very nicely done with a soft, natural radiance at the center; then you have a warm toasted aroma that kind of creeps around the edges as if the beans were recently roasted and pulled out of the fire; and finally Pure Tonka brings some of tonka's almond-like marzipan character along with it as well, so you get a little bit of that cherry note that can be found in fragrances like Tonka Imperiale. Now in the base Pure Tonka incorporates an excellent rich, buttery vanilla, reminiscent of a custard or thick vanilla shake. It's a round, encompassing note that really does a good job of establishing the base and connecting with the tonka. This is a high quality gourmand style of vanilla, that I've actually encountered in Tobacco Vanille, Tabac Rouge, and more recently, Cristian Dior's Feve Delicieuse. In fact, Pure Tonka definitely shares some similarities with the heart of Feve Delicieuse, in so far as its presentation of tonka and the vanilla that it chooses to use in the base. It makes for a great conclusion to the composition and finally you have everything working together. There are traces of the lavender still at play, the tonka's now settled in and more or less blended with the vanilla, and what you're left with is a sweet, rounded aroma with very nice projection that manages to even stay a little bit fresh. Also worth noting is a sweet coffee note, as if from a dessert cocktail which sort of weaves itself throughout the scent. Performance is excellent, though the projection doesn't feel as nuclear as the original and some of its flankers. I think that's because Pure Tonka doesn't feature some of the sharp, potentially abrasive notes like tar and patchouli that can be found in some of the others. At least I didn't notice these notes. Overall I think this is a very good release, and probably the most office-friendly A*Men flanker yet. So far all comments have been positive and I felt completely comfortable wearing this around everywhere, which isn't always the case with some of the other flankers and original. Furthermore, I don't feel any sense of redundancy owning this, as it's quite different than the others. Thumbs up, and just a great smell overall! One last thing to note: This smells totally different on a paper strip than skin, so make sure to test it out properly. On paper the lavender dominates, and for whatever reason the tonka and vanilla never really make much of an appearance. On skin, it's a completely different story, as the tonka and vanilla eventually dominate. I recommend spraying a little on fabric as well as skin to get the best of both worlds.

The supreme gourmand wave. It should not be difficult to write about my signature perfume. Hell is not it! It's not a piece of cake to remain objective with my opinions as if I would have used it only for a couple of times. Sweet perfumes are a 21st century invention; I think the original A*Men of 1996 was the anchor that influenced an avalanche of greedy fragrances, albeit with several streams of interpretation. It's worth noting that I like sweet perfumes, although I find 1 Million, as well some others, to be boring. If it were not so, it would be at least strange to choose as my signature scent, such a sweet perfume as Pure Tonka. This is my favorite A*Men flanker, of the eight I currently own. I like them all very much but this one is "special". And it's not an easy observation for me because of the grandeur of the original A*Men, Pure Malt and Pure Havane. Pure Tonka has been the last one I bought. It was better that way as if I bought Pure Tonka first, I could have finished my A*Men adventure then, and completely satisfied by the virtues of Pure Tonka. I only complain about the spray on all A*Men! But I got used to wasting one squirt for every two that I applied successfully. Pure Tonka opens almost fresh with a minty chord of lavender, but reveals immediately a strong caramel worthy of the best flan pudding, quite creamy and with a hint of bittersweet wild honey. This scent should certainly be the strong chord that is desired for the used tonka bean ingredients. The scent is fairly linear and I just notice the disappearance of the minty lavender before the drydown. Somewhere in this richly sweet blend, I distinguish the striking roasted coffee bean and the semi-bitter cocoa powder, as if justifying the aroma of cappuccino that everyone feels. Also present are an earthy patchouli and a sweet vanilla, a must-have inheritance of the original A*Men.Here the vanilla has the effect of accentuating further the flan pudding mentioned chord. Out of nowhere, I also feel a cinnamon note, light and hidden behind the other notes, but completing the established "gourmandise" of this perfume. The base of this perfume, with which the drydown begins, reminds me either of a sweet cappuccino due to the cocoa, coffee and cinnamon notes, or a caramelized vanilla flan pudding, soft and creamy, with a string of bitter caramel and sprinkled with cinnamon. It's a delicious treat for any gourmand scents lover. The performance is outstanding. You may get easily 12+ hours of longevity, more than 6 feet of sillage and a projection well above 3 hours. This is really a top quality fragrance from Thierry Mugler. Just get it before being discontinued or reformulated, but only if you like strong sensations.