I do also get the geranium, jasmine and chamomile. In fact, everything is well balanced and well blended. I can see this as a year round fragrance, but probably best suited to the cooler type of weather, especially spring, where it reminds me of a crisp, spring morning, with dew still on the grass. This is like walking through a cool pine forest. This is a love from me and I believe that if you love greenness, nature and green, spicy, herbal, grassy fragrances generally, then you will love this.
I wouldn’t recommend for every day use. No brand captures all-American flair quite like Polo Ralph Lauren. Established in the late ’60s, the original men’s line perfected preppy style by transforming Ivy League and country club wear into everyday apparel that promised simple sophistication. Representing a true Americana personage, the lifestyle brand continues to deliver cult-classic designs, including the polo player and bear motifs, which seamlessly adapt to each passing cultural obsession. Ralph Lauren Polo Red Eau de Toilette is a woody, oriental men’s cologne, perfect for the Renaissance man who appreciates a bold, masculine, fresh fragrance.
Perhaps this sort of thing made a lasting impression on me as a kid – Brut and soap-on-a-rope for Xmas, I don’t know. But I’m learning that the woodsy/green/leathers with earthy patch/vetiver/oakmoss drydowns are usually winners for me. The tobacco note in Polo, as elsewhere, only serves to make me love this more. Got a 237ml bottle of this as Xmas present to myself – ‘cos I is werf it. I never wore this on a regular basis in the past but I believe the recently purchased bottle I have, though true to what I remember, has the overall heft and base notes dialed back.
I’m apprehensive about bashing this one (but I will- it’s forthcoming) because it’s such a well loved classic. It comes from a different era when fragrances were bolder Polo Ralph Lauren t shirt and you got more bang for your buck. But I gotta tell ya, this stuff is polarizing! You’re either gonna love it or hate it. some moss and very little leather.
This is leafy and dry tobacco rolled up with a bunch of Asian spices just off the ship from Portuguese and Dutch traders back from Malaysia and Indonesia. Italians, Germans and Brits until Polo unleashed Polo Ralph Lauren t shirt this dirty frontiersman like woody monster on the buying public. Do you like warm spice, earthy tobacco, muddy roots, green and damp decaying woods in the late evening just a few degrees above freezing?