I’m not sure why this scent is so polarizing, but it definitely can be too overwhelming for some occasions. It’s just such an amazing green leathery tobacco-ey scent that smells like money to me. I still have about 5 mL left in my 1995 bottle, so I can’t judge the current formulation.
My Mrs hates it but I keep going back to it for more. Not an everyday one for me it has a time and place and will last me for ages. My parents just celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary this week and of course he wore Polo when he took mom out to dinner in his best tweed suit.
Still smells great but unfortunately for me my stepfather still wears this and I have a hard time wearing this and feeling like it’s my own. I only wear this around the house occasionally in the fall and winter months because I love the smell. This is my wife’s favorite of all my fragrances and will always have a place in my collection. The dry-down maintains the green, woody vibe, and the patchouli, oakmoss, vetiver, leather and tobacco keep it dark and mature.
Kind of interesting accord, but definitely not universally appealing. This is a divine, old time scent that lasts all day. It will make you smell sophisticated and full of class.
It is such a waste of presenting dignified and mature character. You want to appear well-dressed as well as being up-to-date. Being up-to-date means wearing new product offerings. Each season, styles, colors, cuts and even fabrics change. All too often, in the summer, I witness men wearing faded-out and stained polo shirts and shorts.
It’s in the same vein as Quorum but comes off more classy and refined to me. You need to be an old school manly man to wear this. I actually find the smell offensive, and I don’t like it, which is exactly the desired effect I think. It bursts my millennial safe space bubble for sure. The strongest note here for me is tobacco, and the performance is decent. For me, this is an easy fragrance to love.
The newer one is focused on the cigarette “ash” and has a lighter green pine note . It opens up green but definitely it’s dark green and ashy. Soon the tobacco joins – I’ve heard some saying it smells like a cigarette ash tray – I don’t mind. The drydown ralph lauren t shirt is dark – heavy leather with woods and tobacco but still with pine note infused. The opening is quite harsh and reminds me of Paco Rabanne Pour Homme. I get mainly a synthetic pine note that seems to become more natural smelling as the fragrance evolves.
The opening is very, very strong and a little offensive, but it does dry down into something decent. Now, I’m willing to endure a bit, just a bit, of a stinky opening for a good middle and closing act. Although the opening is quite hard to handle for me, the heart notes and the base notes are a delight. Just got a 2.0 oz splash bottle of the Cosmair version of After Shave. It smells exactly what I remember back in the day, but the silage is only several hours if that, not quite as long as the the EDT.