C3 – Tonka Bean Sesame – UNIKA | Dry Amber Eau de Parfum
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A dry, luminous warmth – neither sweet nor heavy.
Roasted sesame and tonka bean at their most elegant.
Sesame is one of the rarest and most unexpected ingredients in niche perfumery. It is rarely encountered — because it is difficult to use without tipping a composition towards the culinary or edible. Véronique Stambouli, exclusive perfumer of the Grasse-born Unika house, makes it the central ingredient of C3 — and achieves the feat of giving it a dry, textured, slightly roasted dimension that never evokes cuisine. The warmth of a workshop, of heated wood, of skin that has retained the sun's warmth.
In this Eau de Parfum concentration, the composition opens with a fresh, slightly camphorated clarity. Bergamot, lemon, and eucalyptus establish a luminous and slightly medicinal vivacity — the eucalyptus brings a green and airy tension that perfectly counterbalances the density of what follows. Sesame then arrives at the heart with a dry, slightly roasted warmth of great precision — not food-like, not sweet, something closer to heated wood or stone in the sun. Woody notes support it with exemplary sobriety. Tonka bean, leather note, and sandalwood settle in the base with an amber and slightly powdery sweetness — enveloping, without ever weighing down what Véronique Stambouli has constructed with such restraint. C3 – Fève Tonka Sésame is an amber scent unlike any other: dry where ambers are usually sweet, luminous where they are usually heavy.
C3 – Fève Tonka Sésame is the fragrance for those who have long sought an amber scent — and had not yet found one that truly suited them.
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Eau de Parfum
Family
Amber
Sillage
Moderate
Gender
Unisex
A word from Maison Diaphane
C3 – Fève Tonka Sésame is the amber scent we recommend to those who have given up on ambers — too sweet, too heavy, too unsophisticated. The sesame at its heart is an absolutely perfect surprise: that dry, slightly roasted warmth that you recognize without being able to name it. The eucalyptus in the opening is audacious and perfectly calibrated — it gives the composition a lightness and freshness that immediately sets it apart from all other ambers on the market. Véronique Stambouli delivers here her most accomplished amber creation.
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C3 – Fève Tonka Sésame Eau de Parfum by Unika is a unisex amber fragrance composed by Véronique Stambouli for the Grasse-born Unika house. It explores amber in its driest and most luminous dimension — roasted sesame, tonka bean, and sandalwood in a composition of sober elegance and rare olfactory originality. Available at Maison Diaphane, official reseller in Angers, for €133. Free delivery from €100 (in France).
Its olfactive pyramid revolves around a dry and slightly roasted sesame-woody notes heart of great singularity, preceded by a fresh and slightly camphorated bergamot-lemon-eucalyptus opening, and extended by a soft and enveloping tonka bean-leather-sandalwood base. As an Eau de Parfum, the composition deploys all its dry amber warmth and lasts 6 to 8 hours.
C3 – Fève Tonka Sésame is a dry and luminous amber fragrance with moderate sillage, ideal for autumn, winter, and everyday wear, equally suitable for women and men.
Doesn't sesame make the perfume culinary or food-like?
That's the question everyone asks — and the answer is no. Véronique Stambouli uses sesame in its roasted and dry aspect, not as food. The eucalyptus in the opening and the woody notes in the heart elevate it into something more mineral and textural. The result evokes more a sun-heated seed or dried wood than cooking oil. It's an olfactory ingredient, not a culinary one.
What's the difference between C3 and C2 – Vanille Réglisse — Unika's two warm amber fragrances?
C2 – Vanille Réglisse is a dark and dense gourmand — refined licorice, saffron, woody vanilla, prominent sillage. It asserts itself and deepens. C3 – Fève Tonka Sésame is a dry and luminous amber — roasted sesame, eucalyptus, tonka bean, moderate sillage. It envelops without ever being heavy. One is depth, the other is a light warmth. Two amber scents from the same house, two radically different intensities and registers.
Doesn't the eucalyptus in the opening create too stark a contrast with the amber warmth?
That's precisely its genius. The eucalyptus in C3 isn't medicinal — it's fresh and slightly camphorated, giving the opening an airy clarity that prepares the sesame to arrive without saturation. It's what allows the amber base to be perceived as a luminous warmth rather than a heaviness — it calibrates the entry into the material with remarkable precision.
Which season is C3 – Fève Tonka Sésame made for?
Mainly autumn and winter — its dry amber warmth flourishes with coolness. Its lightness and moderate sillage also make it suitable for everyday wear in a cold season, without ever seeming heavy or suffocating. In summer, its warmth might seem excessive — it's fundamentally a fragrance for darker seasons and warm interiors.
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