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It arrived a few day ago, unsniffed, for my personal collection. I loved Homage so much, I knew I couldn’t go wrong with Tribute.
I barely dotted a drop on a wrist, went downstairs to talk to my son, and his first comment was, “what smells so good?” That drop was permeating the room and wafting like a pig farm in the summer. Of course I mean that in a good way. I went to the movies about 30 minutes later, and I was filling the theater with this magical scent.
My sister is out staying with me, I let her smell it, Homage didn’t work for her, so she wasn’t expecting this to work either. She sniffed it up close and went “Ew, no, just no.” She left the room, I put on a drop, came back to where she was maybe 30 minutes later, and she goes, “What smells so great?” That’s right the “ewnojustno” Amouage Tribute Attar. She still wasn’t sure. Today I had it on – again – as we walked out of the house to go to the car, and she was behind me snuffling, asking — “oh, wait, it’s the Tribute, right?”
Reader PSA: Much gushing ahead. I’ll try and restrain myself
Notes are Rose Taifi, Jasmine, Saffron, Frankincense, Cedarwood, Tobacco, Leather, Patchouli, Vetiver. This thing comes out of the bottlle like the fiercest, smokiest rose covered in leather and tobacco you have ever smelled. Think Hell’s Angel Rose. Put your nose down to it, and it’s floral dipped in diesel, mostly diesel, not so much floral. I say that with love because I’m fairly fond of that. But if that’s not really your thing – diesel, I mean - just wait a while, put it on in a location far from your nose and wait for it to perfume the air with saffron and spices. This thing spins and whirls and changes in the drydown, leaning more to the leather, then the rose comes back through, and then it feels like almost all spice and saffron, then it starts huffing smoky vetiver like a coal-fired locomotive. I don’t know that I’d say it’s a rose perfume. It is, but it’s so much more than that.
I think of all the trite words I can use to describe this, and none really work. Complex, rich, full-throated. I’m bewitched. Yes, I do know sound like a complete Tribute Fan-Girl.
Amouage says it’s a limited edition, but they said that about Homage, and it’s still being made. It is an oil, and it really will last all day in various incarnations. $350 for 12 ml and $650 or 600 for 30 ml. Yes, it’s a lot, but seriously, a drop is all you need on one wrist. If you want to smoke out a movie theater, do what I did and put on two drops. Well, the movie was “The Road,” so I thought it was a lovely smell-a-around effect.
Absolutely I’m sharing some of this in a drawing. The little samples up for drawing will be small since this stuff is like $20-30 a ml to buy, but I will give away two small samples to two commenters today.
This sounds amazing. At those prices a small sample is my only hope.
Lovely review!
I WAAAAAAAAAAAANT
carter Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 12:56 am
But don’t enter me in the draw. And now that it’s after midnight, I WAAAAANT to wish you a Posse-tively lovely and amazing birthday
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Thanks, doll.
Sounds intriguing! I would love a sample. I adore rose and vetiver.
perfumegeek Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Am I supposed to say include me in the draw? Anyway, count me in!!!!
wow!! that is a lot of swooning….
I would love to be in on the draw.
thanks
This sounds so perfect Patty! Hell’s Angel Rose? Hells yes! Please include me on the draw.)
Isnt it so wonderful to be so over the moon about something? Attar and Tribute just sound so rich and sensuous. And I love to think of you wearing Tribute to see The Road. Way to keep your sanity, girl!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 9:57 am
You know, it really, really worked. It fit in, but it also lifted my mood at the same time. Highly recommended on both counts.
Hey, foxy! Please include me in the drawing.
Thank you.
Hugs!
Saffron and spices and leather AND diesel? Sounds mmm-mmm-good, and I would dearly love to be in the drawing — thank you!
It sounds very sexy…please enter me in the drawing..Thanks
Oh, I beg the benevolent gods to let me win a sample of this stuff! I have just dipped my toe into Amouage and can already hear the siren song of those attars…which is, you know, a little terrifying. But it just sounds soooooo delicious!!
To sum up: what Carter said
sounds de-lish. please add me in the draw.
Oh, please enter me in the draw! This sounds absolutely amazing. I love sillage monsters.
Please count me in!
I did not think anything could better Homage
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Me neither. imagine my delicious surprise.
Gorgeous, count me in! I love that this house uses such excellent ingredients, so many naturals, and thumbs its nose at IFRA. I particularly love Epic Woman.
I want to smell this so badly. Please enter me in the drawing.
Sounds AWESOME!!!!! I’d love to try it.
How can I resist? I can’t; count me in!
Patty, I have to put in my name here. I must try this. Please count me in!
Please enter me, this is an HG for sure, it’s The Precioussss….! Everything I could possible want in one perfume! You had me at Hell’s Angel Rose. Gawd.
/Curls up in fetal position, sobbing quietly/
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Sososososossorry
It’s been making me so happy for days now.
Please enter me in the drawing, thanks!
Anything that leaves the Posse in such fawning admiration goes on my to-sniff-list. And at those prices, a sample is probably all I’ll ever own…
Thanks & happy birthday(s?) I see!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Thank you!
Birthday? Happy Birthday Patty, and I hope it is a terrific one (I seem to remember it being an extra-special one too – welcome to the club)!
Great review of this scent; you make it sound really heavenly, but no need to enter me in the draw, thanks.
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Thanks, D! Yup, it’s the “special” birthday.
Lee Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
With that bee-youthiful face, who’d believe it, baby?
Oh hello! Sounds amazing, please enter me!
i think i have just died and gone to Heaven (i hope..) at this chance and increadible generosity..i need to learn from u^
Oh, I must seek this out, sounds just amazing. Wearing Epic today so there is a little Amouage connection.
Have a fabulous birthday !!!!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Thanks!!
Happy Birthday, Patty
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Homage was nice, not mind or nose-blowing on me… but this here Tribute has me drooling
Please through me in the bowl Vinnie is picking winners from!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Thanks, Louise!
I did love Homage, but it was much tamer than Tribute. i love them both. I’m anxious to sniff the other attars they’ve got out and are cominng out with especially that 1k price tag one, not that I want to buy it.
Hey, sure, I’ll throw in for that drawing! I tried Homage and really need to give it another go. The sample is still sitting on my desk, and I’d be interested to compare the two!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 10:46 am
I rarely compare things, not ure why? I like to get a fresh feel for whatever I’m smelling for the first time without inerference, I guess.
Homage is tamer, Tribute is way wild, but not uncivilized.
Cheers,
Mimi
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Not too late for the draw! Just started this morning.
Love the train image! I have been very drawn to Amouage lately, but my discretionary funds for perfume have um, evaporated. I would love to win a sample of Tribute–please enter me in the drawing. And thanks!
Excuse me while I wipe the drool….Please enter me into the draw! I do love me some Amouage!
Floral dipped in diesel with a double shot of diesel on the side?You know that sounds really interesting. Really,really interesting. I might actually like this one. Please enter my name and lets give it a whirl.
Happy birthday, sweets! No need to hat me although I’d be honored to have Vinie fish me out
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Hope your divinity of choice (and real-life people) shower you with gifts. Of love.
*<(
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:43 am
XO, Dusan!
Full throttled??? Yes please
. How amazingly generous to share such a gem…thank you!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Well, throated, but throttled too.
I meant Vinnie, of course!
And hey, I love my gravatar!
Lee Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Mad and grouchy and vampiric wheel alloy in green. What’s not to love?
carter Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Not a damn thang
Dusan Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Awwww, my loveLees!
A great big happy birthday to you!!
I almost dug out the credit card and bought this unsniffed. Restrained myself. Now I’m losing control again. Must sample first. Please choooose meeeee!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Thanks, Melissa!
I think restraint is good. The good news is you need so little at a time to get a LOT of scent, so splitting even a small amount is pretty goo. I still have a 1 ml vial of Kilian Pure Oud that I use regularly, but just a dip at a time works for me, so it’s still mostly full after four months.
carter Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Yeah, me too, ’till some wise and generous being talked me down off of that ledge
. Well, sort of…the ledge is still up there, waiting, waiting…like the mountain waited for Muhammad…
Melissa Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Yup, I’m right on the edge of that ledge. No pushing.
Happy Birthday, Patty!
Please include me in the draw.
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:45 am
thanks, kathleen!
I would LOVE to try the Tribute…..please please please! Tell me, did you want to slash your beautifully scented wrist after watching The Road? Was it as gut-wrenchingly sad as the book?
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:48 am
You know, I didn’t find The Road that sad. Tragic, yes. Bleak, check. But the love between the father and son and how the son, in a world filled with no kindness, has such a beautiful humanity just blows me away. I’ve seen it twice now. I cried a lot the second time because of the beauty of it.
Christine L. Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I just remember having this nervous knot in my stomache the entire time I was reading it. I guess that is the mark of a great story…..when you feel it viscerally. I don’t know if I can watch the movie just because of the scene in the book when they are at the house….do you know which scene I mean? I was sick reading that part so I can only imagine what seeing it will do to me! I need to see New Moon. A little eye-candy and some drool-worthy abs are about as deep as I can go right now!
carter Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Wow, baby, twice…plus the book. I’m not made of the same stuff (in other words, a total wuss) but I couldn’t agree with you more about the message and meaning of the story. Resounding and ultimately very beautiful.
I’m in a leather mood these days, I can’t have enough (waiting for the auction of a vintage Jolie Madame in few days). Not saying that I’m still looking for a rose that I could truly love. And Tribute sounds just perfect, all my wishes in one!
But I suppose you don’t ship to Europe
Enter me for the draw, though.
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Sure, I send prize winners abroad!
It sounds absolutely amazing! Please enter me in the draw.
Aiyiyi–I love dirty roses! Please enter me in the draw!
I dont comment often, but I read everyday. This sounds so me, so I have to ask that you include me in the draw. Happy b’day to you!.
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Thanks for the birthday wishes!
Yes, please. I haven’t smoked out a theatre in a long time.
Happy birthday, Patty! Please, please, please include me in the draw!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Thanks, Jarvis!
It sounds gorgeous! Please enter me in the draw!
and …
Happy Birthday, Patty! Wishing you a wonderful day and a magical year!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Thanks so much, Connie!
Please throw my name in the hat. That sounds absolutely unreal!
Any word on whether there will be a Denver get-together early next year, Patty?
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Hey, Maris, definitely! I just need to get an e-mail together to all you guys that responded. It probably won’t be until Feb or March since I’m gone a lot of January, but we will do it!
Heya Patty
/ This tribute sounds fantastic, cannot wait to hear what your posse thinks of the other amouage attars. Please enter me for a sample. 
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I know, I’m anxious to get my nose on the rest of them, but have no idea when that will be!
Teger Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
It would be nice if Amouage would take a page from Mr. Lutens and have some limited distribution ala the Paris Exclusives to stores like Bergdorf’s, etc.
Of course, without the exclusive price jump!
carter Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Second that. It’s a travesty
Oh, oh no. I don’t normally go in for the drawings, but enter me for this thing–it sounds too beautiful not to try for a freebie. And here I was trying NOT to spend my entire budget on a single bottle.
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
sorry, sorry, sorry. Really. Maybe you would hate it?
Hi Patty – please enter me in the draw. Sounds amazing. Also sounds like it would keep one warm in this beautiful, but very cold Colorado winter! Debby
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
It is a gorgeous winter fragrance, seriously, but I bet the bloom on it in the heat would be equally as stunning, but in different ways.
this sounds like something I have been searching for…please enter me in the draw
(I have a US postal address)
I had a sample of Ubar, and it was *so* my friend (the vanilla doesn’t warm on me the way it does on her), that I gave it to her. She loved it so much she went and bought a bottle.
happy ‘big’ birthday. I <3 your blog.
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Thanks, DJ!
Wow, I gotta smell me some of that. Please sign me up for the draw. I did that smoking out the movie theater thing the other day, inadvertently, with Bois des Iles parfum. It always seems at first so soft and understated, I forget how it just chugs away like a little trooper in those sandalwood combat boots. Heh.
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Really? Yeah, the sandalwood can build up a head of steam for sure, but I always think of it being gentler.
Sounds lovely! Sign me up.
Ooooh, Patty, you know how to pillow-talk me! It sounds like something I’ve gotta sniff. Please enter me in the draw, and the happiest of birthdays to you. Loves!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Thanks, sweetie!
I’d love to win a sample. And if I do, I promise I will wear it when I go to the The Road
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
It really does go well with it.
I’d love a sample! I’m not sure how my fellow movie-goers will feel about that, though.
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
They would love it.
I’d love to try it, please count me in.
Hi, I’m new to your page but so far loving it! please put my name in the draw, many thanks!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Hey, welcome to the Posse, Sonia!
You had me at “smokiest rose”. I’m salivating. Please add my name to the draw.
sounds really amazing and of course I’d love to try it, please please count me in.
I absolutely loved Homage, so I’d love to try Tribute as well. Thanks for doing a draw!
I’d love to try this. (“Attar” makes me think of 19th century sea captains bringing exotic gifts home for their wives and daughters.)
Would love to try this – thanks for sharing. So generous!
Hi, I’d love to try this, please enter me in the draw
I’d love to try a sample of this. Please do enter me in the drawing.
Hey, it’s your birthday! Happy Birthday, Patty!
I wish you a fragrantly beautiful day, and an equally wonderful year!
Hugs and love!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
thank you, my sweet and lovely friend!
It does sound marvelous! Please enter me in the drawing- and Happy Birthday!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Thanks, Nita!
Oh, please enter me in the drawing. It sounds lovely. Thanks for the great review.
Please enter me into the draw. I wish there was a “meter” to measure perfume’s intensity (as an experience). This sounds like a “10″. Need more 10′s in my life!
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I’d put it at a 10, as I’m still sniffing the two drops on my wrist I put on yesterday.
Wow, you are celebrating your b-day by giving out presents to us?!!! I’m in.
My favorite Amouge is Jubilation XXV, my husband’s signature scent. His clients regularly comment on how good he smells
Patty Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Hey, aren’t you supposed to do that on your birthday? That’s what my family used to tell me.
Oh Lord, that’s all I need, a lemming for a scent that is compounded of the purest unobtainium. Please put me in for the drawing — it’s my only hope.
No need to enter me in the draw, just wanted to wish you the happiest of birthdays!
Also, is this really heavy on the saffron? I think saffron is the note in the Bvlgari rose and OJ Taif that I have identified as making me feel hot….not in that lovely, passionate way, but just literally how I feel when it’s hot outside and I am very uncomfortable.
This sounds beautiful – you are the queen of lemming-makers!! I loove saffron, so please include me in the draw if it’s still open. And: Happy Birthday!
Wildly curious about how a Hell’s Angel rose smells…
Oh, me, me, me, me! Please put me in the draw, this is right up my alley! Thanks, Patty.
Wow! Put me in, Patty!
sounds like you got yourself a wonderful birthday present!
Oh. My. God. This sounds glorious. I totally need to sniff this. Please enter me in the draw.Thanks!
…yum…rose….add me to the draw…happy birthday…..
Please enter me in the draw! Thank you.
omg you make this sound soooo good. if i was going to buy 1, which one should it be? Homage or Tribute????? HELP! please enter me!!
Oh I would love to try this! Thanks for the chance draw!
ooh- Just realized it’s your birthday- Happy Happy Birthday!!
Ooh! Please enter me, I’d love to try this.
Thank you!
Petrol-type scents I enjoy so much…please sign me up for the draw. Thanks!
You make this sound altogether too good. Irresistibly, bank-breakingly good. You probably need to stop doing that. Or, you know, not.
All right, I’ll just lay a guilt trip on you so I win the sample. My car decided it needed a new, very $$ exhaust system. My blood pressure is going up and down like a roller coaster so I have medical appointments from now to kingdom come. On a positive note, I have signed up for a 13 week risk reduction, health and wellness program.. None of this has anything to do with perfume, but anyway, all of the above means I am the most deserving for a perfume giveaway.
Thanks for your blog.
Melanie
Please enter me in the draw, too.
And a very happy birthday to you!
A lurker no more, I am crossing my fingers that I win. Got my dog crossing his toes, too. I love Amouage Jubilation 25 and am a fan of Ormonde Jayne’s Ta’if, so this perfume intrigues me so!
Happy Birthday, Patty!
sounds incredibly luscious. please enter me in the drawing.
I don’t have the huevos to ask to be entered, as I just WON! squeee!
but I do want to wish you an extraordinarily HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
SideNoteofSadness – remember that lovely little Perfume Room @ Nordie’s? They had Amouage there (srsly) for awhile – no testers, alas. First the Carons went, then the Amouage (and all the other niche-y stuff)….now the whole room is gone.
whataworld
ps. you read the book and saw the movie TWICE? Wow. I was exhausted by the end of the book – the movie? uh…..can I watch a Fred Astaire movie instead?
xo
Dear Patty
I would love to try this. Homage is one I love, and I’m fascinated by what they are doing next. Thanks for the review and the draw!
Maggi
Lovely review, which makes me want to try for the sample. I love diesel–well, OK, not diesel, but the smell of my motorcycle when I’ve run it for a while on the way to Yarnel, stop at the store of the woman who harvests the desert. Her store is called Brand New Dead Things. I swing off the bike, and the leather jacket has warmed up and the smell of gas and leather and . . . .I have to try for this.
happy birthday for yesterday…i seem to have missed reading that..hope it was a fragrantly Blessed day
How can anyone NOT ask for a sample after that lovely review =)
Can I still enter the drawing? I love, love, love Amouage and (almost) everything it does! If I don’t win this draw, I may even find a way to obtain Tribute somehow…
You guys are killing me – I love the Amouages as a general rule (after breaking my rule about not trying things that are quite so expensive) and this sounds breathtaking.
I’d love to be entered in the draw – even though it may lead me to drop $350 on 12ml of parfum.
Happy Birthday, Patty! Please include me in the draw, even I don’t have big hopes, I never won anything in draws.
Sounds incredible! Even without the rave review, the list of notes alone is enough to make me drool, wow.
Sounds heavenly! Drop my name in the attar hat, please.
This sounds like fabulous stuff, love to try it if the drawing is still open!
oooh, is it too late? I sure could use some seductive beautiful fragrance magic to end the year . . . . and it’s below zero here, and this scent sounds very warm.
Happy Belated Birthday, Patty! I turn 50 in a couple of weeks and am truly enjoying the wisdom that comes with age…not so much the gray hairs and the wrinkles though.
If it is not too late, please enter me in the draw. Thanks.
Well, I may be too late for this, but I’ll try, since it sounds fab and I love Arabian attars. Thanks!
Holy crap! A dirty rose, rolling in tobacco and leather?? It sounds divine…. Please enter me in the drawing!!
Wow, what a glowing review. Please enter me in the draw.
Dirt? Rose? Leather? *swoon* If I EVER win the lottery… *looks up to the heavens imploring God to let her win simply to buy a bottle*
Please enter me in the draw. Am I too late. I must have Amouage, oh please, oh please, oh please.
Great review!!