Tribù (1993)
by Benetton

i purchased my first bottle of tribu when i was 17 (1992) and have been wearing it on and off ever since. i suppose it might be one of my signature fragrances. it seems i can always go back to tribu. it's fresh, and ends with some peppery notes. tribu is good for work, but is also quite feminine. i always get compliments when i wear tribu. it has never developed a hard core following, so folks just don't recognize it all that much. my only concern at this point is the bottle. it's all plastic and bulky. they need to rethink the packaging into something more eco friendly.

Nice scent—peach, raspberry, rose, jasmine, violet, sandalwood. It’s not intriguing but it is quite interesting. With as many notes as it has, the accord does not get muddied: The notes are surprisingly individually identifiable and they also appear to form shifting accords. I don’t know whether to call Tribù strong or weak—it has definite body to it, but it doesn’t seem to project very much. It is non-offensive. As to whether it is feminine or not, it’s hard to tell. It doesn’t strike me as exactly feminine, but I don’t find it very masculine, either; regardless, it is an interesting scent.

Cedar and rose...a spot-on capture of the zeitgeist of '93. Not a bad scent, but really not my cup of tea. (Speaking of which, I don't get the tea note at all...) Again, not a bad scent--I could sit next to someone wearing this and not find it offensive--but I think it might be a bit too reminiscent of scents such as Liz Claiborne and... heh, perhaps castorpollux is right in saying that Tribu is one of the most recognizable smells out there... It's a nice, innocuously woody/rosy, earthy scent that accurately pins down the Benetton multi-color/multi-scent ethos.

I agree that it has a very tea-like quality but i find it earthy as well. Possibly one of the most recognizable smells out there, it's also a very interesting one. This scent is very well blended and has a decent sillage and is one of the most longlasting benettons. Nowadays it's also very cheap. The heavy sandalwood-ylang mid notes give the scent a very creamy feel to it. Warm, subtle and yet elegant (not every elegant scent has to smell like a heavy fourgère -in the case of male scents- or an expensive rose-jasmine de grasse -in the case of the female scents) it's not only for young people but for eveyone. It's truly unisex to me too. Strange print ads, nowadays it might feel dated to someone that grew up at the time of its release and might fall into the "weird early 90's scents". I happen to love it.

Top notes: violet, black currant and rose. Middle notes: geranium, ylang-ylang and sandalwood. Base notes: vetiver, oakmoss and cedarwood.
I love this fragrance, only because, of all things, in my skin it turns to be one of the best tea-oriented ones I've ever used (I smell like a lovely complicated earl grey fresh in the morning). But as you can see, no tea of any kind is supposedly part of the notes. Maybe it's the combination of black currant and oakmoss... who knows. I encourage you to try it.