Tommy Bahama for Men (2005)
by Tommy Bahama

The website calls this a herbal-fruit scent with notes of sage, caraway, ginger root and patchouli. I find it to be a warm woody-spice scent.
This is delightful! A thread discussion and all these good reviews encouraged me to try this – I wouldn’t have given it the time of day otherwise. First of all I want to say that the bottle is a great substantial handful. It has a classy feel with its golden colour and wooden top.
The opening has lovely spicy rich notes of coriander, pepper, nutmeg and other nutty-woody spices which combine well with the ginger. There is a hint of a green mint note,which is from the sage leaf. That note adds an interesting balance to the golden brown spices. Then the patchouli emerges, and this is **really** well done. I’m not a huge fan of patchouli, but here it is mellow, complex, masculine, and very classy. It may be what is contributing the leather and tobacco notes (if they are not actual ingredients themselves). All in all, this is a suave and very enjoyable scent. It reminds me of the good old Comptoir Sud Pacifique scents, before vanilla took over.

absolutely AMAZING.

so warm, excellent sillage, lasts very long..this is great..my best fragrance bar none

Nothing but pepper was left on me after an hour..

Leather and spice and all things nice! I half expected an AdG clone when I first saw TB, but, boy, was I surprised! Just enough resinous wood (is that cedar? pine?) to make for a warm, woody dry-down. (But without the cedar headache that Gucci pour Homme (#1), Equus and Heritage can bring on if over-applied. Tons of patchouli, too -- yup, one of my very favorite kinds of dry-downs.

I have yet to buy a bottle, but have really enjoyed wearing the samples I've had. Big thumbs up for this modestly priced, terribly masculine frag.

Outstanding. Wonderful smoky spice, with a heart of woody resin, patchouli, and golden rum. Warm, elegantly dry, opaque, my favorite cool-weather fragrance. Tommy Bahama hit it out of the ballpark with this, their first try, and hasn’t struck out yet.

I like this fragrance a lot. My first experience with it was at Macy's (in USA), after smelling about 20 other scents in the men's fragrance dept. My wife placed a sample paper that had been sprayed with Tommy Bahama under my nose and I smelled nothing. My wife said she thought it was fabulous (I was thinking it was the emperor's new clothes!).

After reading the great reviews (and more so because of my wife's reaction) I bought some and have been wearing it ever since. The other reviewers have not touched on this, but my nose distinctly detects the scent of wood that one might find inside a 1700's era building (such as in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, for example). This scent MUST either be a by product of some wood or wood sap that was used in constructing these very old structures, or the perfumery was aiming for such with a synthetic re-creation.

I know that sounds bad -- what? wearing old wood sap? But if you try it, you will see that this is one great fragrance -- not too sweet or overpowering, cannot be oversprayed yet 2-3 sprays is enough, good sillage, lasts a good long time. I would say this is a diamond in the rough, but enough people have discovered it, the TB Company knows they have a good formula here, and the price is higher than most...and it is worth it!