Ralph Lauren Polo Red Eau de Toilette – a fiery men’s perfume with a blend of red grapefruit, red saffron, and deep red wood for the ultimate thrill-seeker. Men’s Polo combines Ivy League classics and time-honored English haberdashery polo dress shirts with downtown styles and all-American sporting looks in sportswear and tailored clothing. The latest fashion news, beauty coverage, celebrity style, fashion week updates, culture reviews, and videos on Vogue.com.
It lost that something special, those truly rich and deep notes. It smelled like the highest quality and made you smell rich. Todays version, it’s quite obvious that the quality has been gutted from it. I can’t begin to tell you younger lads just how incredible this fragrance was back in the day!
This neutrality gives it a status of ‘only for men’. My perfume journey started with this perfume around 25 years ago. It was a gift from my sister from the US. It was suggested to her by her husband.
I feel limited wearing this as a lot of people I come into contact with don’t like it. Friends that have smelled it often have a face of disgust and say that it smells like a grandpa, or that it is strong, but I rarely have experienced someone actually liking it. Best way I can describe it is that it smells like money. Seriously, the old style paper notes, imagine a fat roll of money and sniff it. Not the performance monster it was but still lasts for days on end on clothes. My uncle had had this as his signature scent for over 30 years.
Now if you do some research, there are Warner, Cosmair, and Luxury Products versions of Polo. The Warner is the original formulation with the best longevity and performance. The Cosmair is the more balanced scent version of the 3 formulations. The Luxury Products reformulation is the current formulation being sold today, needless to say it is the inferior of the 3.
Also woods and patchouli along with moss, and a hint of leather. I like this scent the most when initially applied as I can smell the pine and fir. Under drydown it becomes exclusively tobacco, leather, and woods. Moderate sillage and strong longevity. I’m just not that great of a fan of the scent – especially in drydown – the tobacco and leather kind of ruin it for me; I would prefer a more natural forest scent.
One year passed and the result was “Polo for Men,” also known as “Polo Green.” But the drydown is immaculate and slightly tobacco without it being smoky. This is such an intoxicating scent that it becomes you. Once you grow up with this, your standards are so much higher in what you expect a good edt to be. This is something millenials just don’t understand.
Fresh, clean, spicy, classy and luxurious. It seems like there will be no performance issues with my item. I never used the vintage formula but I am more than impressed with the June 2018 product. I was able to smell it on my arm still 8 hours later which is more than satisfactory.