Polo Crest

Personal: 10/10 – It’s glorious, and one of the best green fragrances I’ve ever smelled. A favorite for a reason. Mass appeal: 7.5/10 – Not super agreeable by modern standards, but I still love it. Performance: 9/10 – Nuclear on my skin. It evolves beautifully too. Value: 2/10 – Discontinued, and current eBay prices make it a poor value. That said, I’ll still buy another because mine is almost empty. Uniqueness: 8.5/10 – A true green chypre with oakmoss character. Familiar DNA, but this rendition stands apart. SCORE: 74/100 Full bottle buy? YES, just because I like it too much. Blind buy? NO, current prices make it relatively unattainable, and unless you love Polo Green, just buy Polo Green instead. Recommend? YES, honestly the best version of Polo Green, and a chypre icon. Date night? YES, but more for nostalgic or meaningful settings than a casual evening out. Office safe? NO, too strong, too bold, and too old-school for most workplaces. Pros: Old-school chypre icon. Performs crazy well. Nostalgia for me, at least. Cons: Discontinued. Can make me a bit sneezy if oversprayed. Performs almost too well. For my eleventh review, I wanted to review my very first fragrance, which is one of my absolute favorites. This is essentially Polo EDT by Ralph Lauren but with different intensities of the notes. To me, much of the darker tobacco note is gone; instead there’s a more prominent green-ness without some of the herbal notes. Just feels like a lot of green woods. This, to me, is the pinnacle of masculine perfumery. It’s a chypre like no other. It bears much similarity to Polo Green but it’s the best version of it, by far. I also really appreciate the oakmoss notes. This is kind of like the “pilot” fragrance to Polo Cologne Intense by Ralph Lauren, with a less vegetal basil note. I found a half-empty bottle of this in my mom’s medicine cabinet. Supposedly it was my dad’s. I wore it in high school a few times, in my sophomore year, and it’s the scent that captured the heart of my soon-to-be wife. Every time I wear it, she and I are transported back into high school (even though it was less than a decade ago), falling in love all over again. This one always takes me back to simpler days. Is it the best cologne? Close, but no. Is it the most important one for me? Absolutely. A forgotten classic that I will always miss. Review #11 in my fragrance journey

So I have a half full bottle of original Polo that my dad passed down to me and a almost empty bottle of Polo Crest.. When I first smelled both I thought that they smelled to dated and like an old man.. I never thought I would like them or wear either one.. As I got more and more into fragrances and my tastes developed things changed.. One day I sprayed the Polo bottle to see how it smelled again and I was amazed, something had changed.. It smelt so rich and unique! It is very powerful and a bit to over the top for me though but I love to keep it on my shelf and give it a whiff occasional.. Perhaps in the future I will try wearing it.. Than I got curious about the Polo Crest, so I sprayed it on my arm not long before I wrote this and all I can say is WOW! These two bottles took me to a whole different side of the fragrance world that I never knew existed.. Polo Crest smells amazing! It is still powerful but not as in your face macho like the original Polo.. The opening is like a blast of so many different things that I cant make out anything from it, it smells so different! It definitely retains a lot of the Polo DNA in it but it has its differences! It is more clean and not as dirty as the original.. Polo Crest is a powerful, sexy, exotic, and luxurious blend of herbs, spices, florals, leather, amber, patchouli, oakmoss, musk, and cedar! It smells very manly but it is so classy and luxurious! This is what real "masculine" fragrances are like, Polo & Polo Crest! If you are the type of guy that feels like these modern fragrances are not manly enough for you than you need some type of Polo.. Polo Crest smells a lot like the original but Crest is more pleasing to my nose.. Crest is so rich, deep, manly, dirty, but luxurious! There is some type of slight creaminess to this scent which is lovely.. I smell a lot of pine, cedar, jasmine, and just about every note listed! It is another lost MASTERPIECE! I can picture myself wearing this on a very special occasion in the future, when I want to feel luxurious but sexy in a very manly way!

After years of reading about and ogling bottles of this online, I finally came into possession of a bottle of this long gone scent...and I'm so glad I did. If the original Polo is the loud, gregarious brother who is always the life of the party, then Polo Crest must be the brother who sits only with those he feels most comfortable with. He is a bit more modest, but is no less self-assured than his loquacious sibling and even more refined. He does not approach a woman in plain sight in a shameless showing of male bravado. He seduces her quietly away from prying eyes. This is Polo Crest. The opening blast of oakmoss is much like that of the original Polo, but soon dries down to a moderate skin scent that is much more leathery and a bit more powdery than its older brother. Overall, I would much rather have Crest on the market than Ralph Lauren's current offerings. Sad that such a treasure was discontinued. Scent: 9/10 Sillage: 7/10 Longevity: 8/10

One of my all time favorites. Polo Crest is essentially the daytime or summer version of Polo Green. In my mind, RL never intended for this flanker to be more than a “limited edition” as they weren’t going to directly compete with themselves. Upon release in 1991, Crest’s big brother Polo Green was the undisputed heavyweight of the RL men’s line. That wasn’t going to change and RL either didn’t know how to market Crest to its consumers, or more likely, intended it to be a limited run. Lurking in development, a new heavily marketed flanker, Polo Sport, would go on to dominate the aquatic side of the pond in 1993. Dollars and scents. Polo Crest has an excellent composition with a very similar DNA to Polo Green, minus the tobacco, with an emphasis on the herbs / florals in the heart and cedar in the basenotes. Make no mistake, Polo Crest is an unparalleled treasure of masculinity in the world of fragrance. 5 stars!

i still have some of this wonderful fragrance and wear it every once in awhile, it still wows me with just how wonderful and manly it smells..always something nice heard about this one, i need to find some more one of these days. always liked the original polo but it was so strong sometimes it was a bit off putting, but this one has that similar vibe but so much quieter..but still gives you that fantastic scent trail, i used to have the aftershave balm and always loved the combination. fragrances come and go and some lose their popularity but you only have to get a whiff of this one to remember the magic.. thumbs way up..