It arrived a few day ago, unsniffed, for my personal collection. I loved Amouage Homage so much, I knew I couldn’t go wrong with Amouage Tribute Attar.
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 — all Amouage Tribute Attar.
My sister is out staying with me, I let her smell it, Amouage Homage didn’t work for her, so she wasn’t expecting Amouage Tribute Attar 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 Amouage Tribute Attar, 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 Amouage Tribute Attar, and none really work. Complex, rich, full-throated. I’m bewitched. Yes, I do know sound like a complete Amouage Tribute Attar 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 Amouage Tribute Attar 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.
Amouage Tribute Attar sample available at Surrender to Chance.
Please enter me in the draw. Am I too late. I must have Amouage, oh please, oh please, oh please.
Great review!!
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*
Wow, what a glowing review. Please enter me in the draw.
Holy crap! A dirty rose, rolling in tobacco and leather?? It sounds divine…. Please enter me in the drawing!!
Well, I may be too late for this, but I’ll try, since it sounds fab and I love Arabian attars. Thanks!
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.
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.
This sounds like fabulous stuff, love to try it if the drawing is still open!
Sounds heavenly! Drop my name in the attar hat, please.
Sounds incredible! Even without the rave review, the list of notes alone is enough to make me drool, wow.
Happy Birthday, Patty! Please include me in the draw, even I don’t have big hopes, I never won anything in draws.
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.
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…
How can anyone NOT ask for a sample after that lovely review =)
happy birthday for yesterday…i seem to have missed reading that..hope it was a fragrantly Blessed day(*)
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.
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
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 >-)
sounds incredibly luscious. please enter me in the drawing.
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!
Please enter me in the draw, too.
And a very happy birthday to you!
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
You make this sound altogether too good. Irresistibly, bank-breakingly good. You probably need to stop doing that. Or, you know, not.
Petrol-type scents I enjoy so much…please sign me up for the draw. Thanks!
Ooh! Please enter me, I’d love to try this.
Thank you!
ooh- Just realized it’s your birthday- Happy Happy Birthday!!
Oh I would love to try this! Thanks for the chance draw!
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!!
Please enter me in the draw! Thank you. 🙂
…yum…rose….add me to the draw…happy birthday…..
Oh. My. God. This sounds glorious. I totally need to sniff this. Please enter me in the draw.Thanks! 🙂
sounds like you got yourself a wonderful birthday present! :d
Wow! Put me in, Patty!
Oh, me, me, me, me! Please put me in the draw, this is right up my alley! Thanks, Patty.
Wildly curious about how a Hell’s Angel rose smells…
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!
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.
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.
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 🙂
Hey, aren’t you supposed to do that on your birthday? That’s what my family used to tell me. 🙂
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!
I’d put it at a 10, as I’m still sniffing the two drops on my wrist I put on yesterday.
Oh, please enter me in the drawing. It sounds lovely. Thanks for the great review.
It does sound marvelous! Please enter me in the drawing- and Happy Birthday!
Thanks, Nita!
Hey, it’s your birthday! Happy Birthday, Patty!
I wish you a fragrantly beautiful day, and an equally wonderful year!
Hugs and love!
thank you, my sweet and lovely friend!
I’d love to try a sample of this. Please do enter me in the drawing.
Hi, I’d love to try this, please enter me in the draw
Would love to try this – thanks for sharing. So generous!
I’d love to try this. (“Attar” makes me think of 19th century sea captains bringing exotic gifts home for their wives and daughters.)
I absolutely loved Homage, so I’d love to try Tribute as well. Thanks for doing a draw!
sounds really amazing and of course I’d love to try it, please please count me in.
You had me at “smokiest rose”. I’m salivating. Please add my name to the draw.