Highness III

This is such an amazing fragrance, after two days I immediately purchased an additional two bottles. Spray on skin & it will take you to another place that only few fragrances are able to achieve. I get dried mixed woods (like visiting a large woodpile) with slight pencil shavings & after about 30 minutes the slight soapy aroma starts to appear. Then you get the mixed types of wood with slight soap in the background & it stays like this through the duration which is a good 12 hours. This is suitable for the more mature person that makes a statement when they enter a room. Very versatile except in extreme hot weather & can be worn dressed up or down. Some say that this smells like "Royal Oud" (another of my favorites) but is it no where near, they are both different fragrances where the only common factor being they are both dominant in wood. Novice noses may class the two as identical twins & I can get that, but I would say that if these are twins, then they are not identical twins. The bottle is quiet heavy & the cap is solid & it looks & feels great. In my opinion, this fragrance is a steal if purchased on discount websites for under $100. When wearing this fragrance, you will be the best smelling person in the room & I very much doubt that anyone else would of ever smelled it before. Many will ask you what are you wearing & where did you get it from. 10/10

I absolutely love this. Polo was the first fragrance I ever wore. It was my father's. It was for my 8th grade dance. It was in the 80s. It was too old for me then, but I miss it so much now. The current formulation is disgraceful. Highness III (green) is more Polo than Polo. Both its longevity and sillage are quite impressive. I only use one or two sprays. That's enough to smell it easily within arm's reach, and you'll still be smelling it on your clothes the next day. With additional sprays you can clear out a room, and for me personally, the "amber" becomes too slightly overpowering. Some will day this is "dated", but I will say it is more "classic" or "retro". This is a man's cologne. Don't know if this would fly in the frat houses of today. Y'all can judge for yourself. For me, though, this exudes a masculine confidence that's grounding. It's not sweet, fruity, or unisex. If you like the old, classic Polo, this is without question blind-buy worthy, no questions asked. UPDATE: I've been layering this with Bottega Veneta Pour Homme, and it's amazing. I absolutely love BV, but it's performance is atrocious, to say the least. A single spray of His Highness under the BV not only helps the latter to project, but the resulting combination of the two is exponentially better producing a warm, vintagey, manly scent.

This one was not on my radar but happy to find it as a fan of fougere and barber shop fragrances. I have a growing collection of middle eastern fragrance houses and don't usually think fougere and Afnan. I believe this is a dupe of Polo Green. Afnan did well here and I think the asking price is representative of the quality. Comparing to the modern day Polo Green, Highness is superior to me in every way. The current Polo Green has wet ashtray smell to me and I reach for Polo Green Intense as a replacement (I love Polo Green Intense but the performance is lacking on my skin). Compared to the original Polo Green, this is where I think Highness is most comparable. For this reason, this is highly recommended looking for the classic Polo Green with good performance.

My initial impressions of this are very positive. I get the somewhat harsh opening that I do find reminiscent of royal oud (one of my favorites). After a few minutes, this dissipates and I'm left with a green woody scent that does in fact remind me of the original polo for men. This stuff is a stunner, particularly when considering the price point. If you're scared of oud as a note, you don't have to worry with this one. There's no barnyard accord or fecal stench. It's a dark woody and green scent with a light sweetness underneath. I'll work through my decant and update my impressions at the end. So far, so good.

This fragrance is fresh, invigorating, and masculine. To me, it has a minty coolness, not toothpaste mint, but a freshly picked green mint that has been magnified and mixed with pepper and other fougeres. This is a dark green fragrance that's for a confident man, not for the timid. It lasts quite awhile, especially on fabrics. I can smell it days later on fabrics. Truly a remarkable and bold fragrance. It's my go to fragrance for the cool days of early spring.