Polo Blue
Ralph Lauren (2002)

Polo Blue is an aquatic fragrance released in 2002. Polo Blue is a fresh, clean and sporty scent. The fragrance opens with fresh, juicy, and ozonic accords with pleasant melon, tangerine and cucumber notes. The heart is herbal and green with basil, clary sage and geranium notes. Polo Blue dries down to a dry, mossy, suede, patchouli, slightly musky and woody base. The fragrance smells synthetic, but appealing on the whole. The scent is competent but uninspiring. Years ago, Polo Blue was one of my favorite scents. Now I find it somewhat interesting, inoffensive, but mainly a “dumb reach”. I prefer Polo Blue to other aquatics, such as Acqua di Gio, BVlgari Aqua pour Homme, and Dolce & Gabanna Light Blue. I do enjoy Polo Blue edt more than the less fruity Parfum version, especially the opening.

Polo Blue is an average performer with good projection and adequate sillage. The fragrance is good for casual and office use and performs well in warm weather. While aquatics are not my favorite genre, I do enjoy Polo Blue from time to time during the spring and summer seasons. Recommended, but almost a neutral due to its synthetic nature and uninspiring design. Primarily a nostalgic scent for me.

This is a competent aquatic scent. Convention requires that I write more, though, but it is really, exactly, and utterly what you would expect from a designer “blue” fragrance. Clean, refreshing, but little of substance here. Described as an “aquatic fougere”, there are notes of apple, lavender, and some of the usual fougere components.

I am of an age where Polo means a green bottle—no messing with the OG. Except for Polo Crest which was wonderful. When this flanker came out, I dismissed it out of hand. To make it worse, my daughter’s boyfriend wore this (given to him by my daughter) so I just felt it was out of time and place for me. Benaim and Laudamiel barely even referenced the original Polo especially in its fresh, fruity opening and herbal heart. Way down in the base there is a whisper of the original Polo—the moss, the woods and Patchouli see to that. If Blue had even just a touch of the pine and tobacco of the original, along with its fruity freshness, this would be more interesting to me. Taken on its own merits, this is a well-crafted freshie which I will leave to a younger crowd while I revel in the manly aura that is the original Polo.

This is the quintessential aquatic, fresh, citrusy, woodsy scent for a man. I’m met by bergamot on the opening with saline and a kiss of cardamom that’s afraid to show itself. In the heart I can smell basil. The crux of many perfumes. The base notes are comprised of woody notes, vetiver, and patchouli.

This is good to wear during sports and for going out as it has an outdoorsy feeling. I love this scent and its general profile.

I'm really digging this blue Polo, just trying it now for the first time. I see that it's from 2002 but I think it's probably still one of the best blue fragrances on the market right now. Like top 3 material.

In fact it already has me kind of second guessing having bought Acqua di Gio Profondo here recently. Profondo is definitely stronger but that's also because of the hedione and that original AdG backbone. However, the marine accords in Profondo and Polo Blue are both similarly nice!

Polo Blue is well put together. It steers clear of that Axe/Lynx vibe you'll get from for example a Versace Eros. It's also not screechy ambroxan loud like Sauvage (edt) and Dylan Blue are.

It's just a fresh, in-your-face herbal aquatic with a good dose of geranium, aided by lavender, calone and some coumarin. Which is how I like my blue scents. Of course more work was done here to the top, heart and base but I hope you catch my drift. Other highlights are the velvety smooth base and the fruitiness in the top.

To me Polo Blue is one of the 3 best blues out there, the other ones being AdG Profondo and Dunhill Century Blue.

One of only a few fragrances I cannot tolerate. A basil and cucumber mix that resembles more of a stale salad dressing than a cologne. I can live with most of the other Polo line, Green, Black, Double Black, Sport etc. but Polo Blue has a veggie medicinal smell that is anything but "blue". I'll never understand this mess.