Tonka Kumaru Atelier Materi 2026

A tremendous release from Materi that I was able to try thanks to an official sample, and I liked it a lot.

It’s an exquisite perfume, and the best word to describe it is buttery. It smells like a cream made of tonka bean and almonds. It’s incredibly creamy, rather than wearing a liquid perfume, it feels as if you were spreading tonka and almond butter over your skin.

In the mid phase it also has an accord that’s hard for me to explain, like the feeling of summer when you apply those creams such as argan or cocoa butter. At times it even smells as if you had applied warm wax to your body.

In the end, all of this settles into something much more intimate and vanilla-like. For now, after a first test, the performance didn’t seem particularly strong to me, but I’ll keep testing it.

I ordered it as a fragrance sample and unfortunately, I didn't like it much when testing, neither on paper nor on skin.

I was expecting a creamy, sweet, coconut-vanilla perfume. Maybe like a nice body butter in a luxurious upgrade.

Unfortunately, I perceive the scent consistently as powdery-synthetic. I also find it somewhat unbalanced, and I hardly notice any facets beyond the synthetics. It lingers on the skin and clothing for a long time.