There will be the occasional person who finds this appealing as you wear it but don’t count on most people to like it. I have decided this will be my signature scent when I get into my late 40’s. I have great love for Polo and it will remain in my collection for life.
I think every man should own a bottle of this and Aramis. It is simply a CLASSIC ,mature,clean, strong but a common and dated fragrance. I enjoy it very much but I try not to wear this if i’m in a romantic scenario as it just smells too predictable and accessible. I’ve heard that the new formulation is much better, w/ more leather and pine, better note-separation and improved longevity. I just scored a 16oz bottle of this great fragrance in an auction for 80$ and it’s the WarnerLauren juice WOW!!
Not saying similar but it takes you on a journey. I’ll admit I don’t like the first phase of this that much and putting your nose right up to where it’s sprayed isn’t pleasant, it’s the cloud it surrounds you in that makes people take notice. It’s not a timeless scent, it is a very specific to its time scent, and that time is gone . This said, I would never ever wear this.
It bursts my millennial safe space bubble for sure. The strongest note here for me is tobacco, and the performance is decent. I will always have Polo in my collection, even if I decided Polo Ralph Lauren t shirt to shrink it down to only 10 fragrances. This is my absolute favorite winter fragrance. The dry down, to me, smells like pine and freshly ground pepper, strong, masculine, professional.
The first fragrance I’ve loved rather than just liked, before I was pretty disillusioned with what was on offer wrt modern fragrances, I think I might favour the older ones. This fragrance screams ‘Grandfather’ to me. It has a very classic scent that smells like a well put together older gentleman. It is a bit dated, but in a classic sense of the word. My only caveat is that the tobacco note is somewhere between the raw dried leaf and smoked cigarette smell. It becomes more evident on clothes as the day goes by.
Polo is one of the easiest scents in the world to overspray. I think we’ve all been in the room with a guy who wore too much of this on too warm of a day. Also, the presence of personal body funk (or the dreaded ‘older man smell’) can render this fragrance just a really ugly air pollutant. I’m sure encounters like this have turned more than a few people against Polo. I think men who have a strong natural smell to their person are better off with a fresher fragrance to wear. But where Polo shines is in longevity and projection.