Tribute for Men

After spraying on fresh like an eau de cologne (which it is), it settles down to a pleasant patchouli-lavender drydown that's a barbershop clone of Azzaro Pour Homme. Definitely a cut above your drugstore/Beckham type fragrances in ingredient quality, perhaps at some recent Dunhill levels, but still slightly below the designer ones. Performance is also much better than one should expect for the modest price - I can detect it on my skin 8 or so hours later after spraying. Pretty good and recommended, especially if you like Azzaro Pour Homme. However, according to my mother-in-law who works for Mary Kay, it has been recently discontinued.

Unabashedly male; but not necessarily in a bad way. The opening is harsh and startling, and based off the few reviews here, that's all it seems to take for some people. I can understand the divisiveness it creates. This was a scent released when the men I knew, worked on cars, and carried an underlying scent of petrol and sweat that seemed to endlessly renew from the very pores from which they came. Brash and astringent, and fresh like a cold shower on a hot day, or stepping into the mountain morning's frosty air. That blue collar swag needs the sharp green, almost medicinal current, to cut through that grease laden testosterone. So for me, this is just the skin of the working man, the family man, the father. After I made that connection, what is there not to like?

This was green and harsh, as I recall, and the juice was dark green (i.e. the color of a Paco Rabanne bottle). It fell into a dark piney green scent category that I would normally like if it weren't so crudely done. It's a strong one indeed, but very chemical.

Smells like weed. Wish I could return this fragrance as I can't even give it away, my friends wouldn't be caught dead wearing this.

FOR LOVERS OF MARIJUANA ONLY Notes in Mary Kay's Tribute For Men Head Notes: Bergamot Lemon Heart Notes: Clary Sage Lavender Base Notes: Cedar Patchouli I'm a woman reviewing a man's cologne based on how I feel about the scent as I have smelt it on a friend of mine's, a car mechanic with his own auto body shop business in Brooklyn. Now, as for myself, I have worn some unisex fragrances but never crossed into men's colognes/fragrances. I want to start off by saying I would never want to wear this if I were a man. This is the most disgusting, dirtiest, foulest, ridiculous waste of money on a fragrance ever produced. I can't compare it to anyting other than perhaps the patchouli and dirt in L'Artisan's Voleur de Roses and even that one is supposed to be of some higher quality (as it is quite expensive). This is a cheap cologne for cheap men who like cheap weed. You heard me. Weed. Marijuana. This smells like you've just been smoking tons of marijuana. Why would that be? It's the combination of clary sage and patchouli. Clary Sage is it? Well this doesn't smell anything like the sage used as culinary herbs to prepare food in the Mediterranean countries of Italy and Greece. Would have been terrific if this was just a bit spicy in the gourmand sort of way. No, this is the sage SALVIA one of the many thousand salvia mint plants which are mainly used in gardening or....SMOKING WEED! Salvia is a recreational drug which has a heady intoxicating effect. This is surely the salvia in this cologne which becomes even smokier with the patchouli note. The end result is like a huge cloud of marijuana smoke. Of course that's not all that is going on in Tribute. There is clearly incense, lots of smoke and incense. It might even have some tobacco notes. This is also very much a woodsy fragrance with cedar and an unlisted oak moss. This is that dark green moss that grows right on the trunks of trees. You can see them clearly in large parks. This is exactly the smell I get from Tribute but it's as if someone take the moss, burn it and use it as incense, in order to smoke it. This is such a smoky green woodsy fragrance that will never appeal to me. I can't stand the smell of marijuana, even if it's "good marijuana". This is so gross. I wouldn't want to be close to the man who wears this. I don't know why some people seem to feel comfortable wearing this when it is so obviously dirty and full of marijuana. As for patchouli in perfume, either women's perfume, unisex or men's cologne, if done right, can be amazing. I have some great patchoulis in my perfumes: Miss Dior, Passion by Elizabeth Taylor, Magie Noire by Lancome, Teatro Alla Scala by Krizia, Emeraude by Coty and L'Agent by Agent Provocateur. The incense notes and patchouli in those fragrances are unbelievable. There is a way for smoke/incense and patchoui or even a slight marijuana scent smell a lot better. Tribute for men? Which men? Because the only kind of men this fragrance gives any tribute to is potheads and drug dealers. I can't get my friend to stop wearing this cologne and change his fragrance to another one. He loves it a lot but I'm certain that the only guys who love wearing this really do like the connection with marijuana. Others have also noted that it tends to smell like those cheap car freshners that sell in auto body shops that look like green pine trees, or like a stack of dollar bills, or like an old man that smokes a lot of cigars. None of these images are sexy, attractive or alluring. If you are a man who simpoly cannot stop wearing this cologne, please do all us women a favor and wear it when you're completely alone indoors nd never never ever wear this in public, on a date, at dinner, at lunch, at school, at a movie theater, in a car next to other passengers, or anywhere where other women can smell it. We don't want to smell this!