Review by exciter76
One day I was spritzing myself silly at Ulta. I had had my fill of fragrances for the day but I decided to sniff one more blotter strip. Ive mentioned before my weakness for anything typified as tropical. Ive also mentioned the consequences of blindly buying fragrances based on such prejudices in other reviews. This particular time I did not get ensnared in the blind buying trap, only testing out Tommy Bahama. It was fabric-flowers-and-string-lei love at first sniff on a blotter strip. I vowed to purchase this full price. As fate would have it I found it several months later at Marshalls for a song and a dance. It was my lucky day. I got home, showered, and put on my new big bottle of Tommy Bahama. Immediately, I felt a sense of familiarity and disappointment. It smelled very similar to Bora Bora and Christina Agularas Inspire, two fragrances I already had. It also reminded me of some tropical Escada scents along with a faint reference to Estee Lauders Beyond Paradise. It smelled amazing and uniquely tropical on the blotter strip but somehow smelled ordinary on me. I was disheartened. The real heartbreaker was in the drydown. It ceased to be tropical and turned to an aldehydic, powdery bore. I was far more impressed with the unswerving tropical nuances in Bora Bora than I was with this. To quote Madonna, this long-lasting sillage monster was sadly, Reductive. It is not a bad fragrance but I can think of at least five tropical fumes with more originality and better composition from beginning to end than this. Im glad I didnt commit to this one at full price, and though this is pleasant, I will not be making a repeat purchase of this one again.
