Amburana Bark

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Amburana bark is the bark of Amburana cearensis, a tree native to Brazil. It is rich in coumarin, so it smells of sweet hay and warm wood at once. Premiere Peau puts it next to tonka bean and then pulls it away: drier, more wooden, less creamy and buttery. Its own phrase is 'like tonka bean grew on a tree trunk'.

Scent Profile

Amburana bark smells of sweet hay and warm wood at once, close to tonka bean but pulled away from it. It reads drier, more woody, and less creamy and buttery than tonka. The same coumarin warmth is there, but the wood character comes through more clearly, as if tonka bean had grown straight on a tree trunk.

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Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~24h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand, Woody & Earthy, Amber · Musk · Leather

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Amburana Bark from materials such as:

Coumarin hay · tonka · cinnamon

Smell words come from published sources.

Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Coumarin

A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else, and may or may not contain the allergens above.

Origin

Bark of Amburana cearensis, native to northern, eastern and west-central Brazil, north-western Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. The Portuguese common names include cumaru and cumaru de cheiro, which are also names for Dipteryx odorata, the true tonka-bean tree. The two are different species and the shared name causes routine confusion. This vocabulary already points the alias 'Cumaru' at tonka, and that alias is correct for Dipteryx and does not cover this tree.

Usage in Perfumery

A base note. Premiere Peau offers it as an alternative to tonka bean in amber structures, where it gives the same coumarin sweetness with a drier, woodier body. It is attested in 3 Fragrantica listings and none on Parfumo, so use is thin.