Tribute for Women
Mary Kay's Tribute for Women (1990) is a full-blooded soliflore-style floral with the lush maximalism that characterizes early-1990s feminines.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Tuberose65
- Floral55
- Fruity55
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Peach
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
- Iris
- Narcissus
By the editors · 2 min readMary Kay's Tribute for Women (1990) is a full-blooded soliflore-style floral with the lush maximalism that characterizes early-1990s feminines. Peach opens alone — warm, ripe, and welcoming — before the composition expands dramatically into one of the more complex white floral hearts of its price tier: tuberose's creamy richness, jasmine's honeyed sweetness, lily of the valley's green dewy freshness, freesia's bright floral clarity, iris's rooty-powdery depth, and narcissus's cool, honeyed-green complexity. Six florals in the heart is an ambitious brief, and the arrangement holds together with surprising coherence — iris and narcissus provide the structural depth that prevents the sweeter florals from collapsing into sentiment.
The base is minimal — just musk — letting the florals carry the narrative through the drydown without competition. The iris-narcissus pair gives the composition more sophistication than the opening suggests. This is a serious floral dressed in accessible packaging; the 1990 vintage positions it squarely in the era of maximalist white florals, and it makes that case well.
Scent twins
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