There is no more iconic bottle in all of perfumery. The original powerhouse formulation would fill the whole room. My father wore this in the 80s, 90s.
Never mind the country club image here folks, Polo, because this isn’t gentlemanly games on the Chelsea commons of West London circa 1910. This fragrance is brutal, earthy, dark and danky pine woods like the ones that used to cover all of Northern Europe before the 12th century. Those woods are wet and mossy from the constant fall rain and drizzle, capturing the misty cool morning and the decaying leaves on the ground. 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 this dirty frontiersman like woody monster on the buying public.
6 out of 5 scent when you remind yourself that this was when things were really good and perfume houses were in their ascendancy. Fragrantica is a complete joke at this point. An Intense flanker of this fragrance has been on sale for at least 2 weeks at this point and was announced more than a month ago, and it STILL does not have a page on Fragrantica. This is a massive fragrance release, but Fragrantica is too busy talking about the “fragrance brands” that are founded from hipsters’ garages in Seattle and Portland every week. I really want to re-experience the vintage version of this that all the boys in school wore the year it came out, but it’s so darn expensive, it’ll have to wait.
I prefer this oldie more then the new popular fragrences of today. It’s a classic and it’s for a real man not a teeny weeny. polo dress shirts If you want to smell like a real man wear this and if you don’t want to smell like a man wear what’s available today.
The product was a very easy-to-tell fake. The counterfeiters do not try to match details of the original product. Of course I returned the fake Polo, why would I want to keep a fake? The seller still has the Polo product advertised in eBay for cheap, which of course I won’t ever buy again.
It was my only fragrance for 30 years. I have gone through so many bottles, I have lost count. The Warner bottles were the best fragrance ever made.
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 Polo Ralph Lauren t shirt to be. This is something millenials just don’t understand. Look if God had his own perfume house, then this would be the garden of Eden scent.