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Polo(1978)

At a glance

Created by Carlos Benaim for Ralph Lauren, Polo opens on pine, juniper berries, and lavender, moves through a heart of leather, patchouli, and pine needle, and closes on tobacco, oakmoss, and cedar. Its rugged, woody-leather structure matched Ralph Lauren's established fashion identity built around aspirational American sporting and equestrian imagery, and the fragrance became one of the definitive masculine colognes of the late 1970s and 1980s.

Did you know? This scent's leather note traces back to 16th-century Grasse, where perfuming foul-smelling gloves accidentally built the world's perfume capital. Read the full story →

Brand

Ralph Lauren

Perfumer

Carlos Benaim

Launched

1978

Family

Chypre

Polo is a fragrance from Ralph Lauren, released in 1978 and composed by Carlos Benaim. It sits in the Chypre family. It opens with Pine, Juniper Berry, and Lavender, moves into a heart of Leather, Patchouli, and Pine Needle, and settles into a base of Tobacco, Oakmoss, and Cedarwood.

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