Romance for Men (1999)
by Ralph Lauren

Romance is a scent strictly for night occasion. Using this before in the morning got me all dizzy. Its fragrance is just too heavy for my liking.

10th January, 2010.

Top notes smelled promising in line with very formal accords, but after minutes these promising notes don't live up to expectations, turning into some sort of cloying, caramel - and - spices mid notes, leaving my skin within three hours. I had the odd feeling of smelling an updated version of Safari gone awry. Good intentions, bad execution: quite forgivable.

17th December, 2009.

one of the best perfumes ever made...MASTERPIECE!!!..RL Romance for men is sexy and yes true romantic and only made for true romantic hearted people......



CLASS +A

SOPHISTICATION +A

WEARBLE DAYTIME AND NIGHT +A

MYSTERY +A

SCENT QUALITY +A

5/5 rating

18th October, 2009.

i liked it. smells fresh. dont really smell the pine in it, but now that i have a headache from sniffing my polo green anything can smell good

10th October, 2009.

Another day, another bathroom cabinet raid.

Today I have ransacked my fathers forgotten cologne drawer filled with sample sizes of various mens' fragrances. Amoung them was an adorable little bottle of Romance for Men.

Wearing it on my wrists I can understand why many men do not like this. Its very feminine! (Why exactly is the lavender in a mens' frag "iced?") I was confused by the dark, slightly rank scent when I opened up the bottle, but after ten minutes the alcoholic overtones (which also contained a blast of that awful "aquatic" note that's in perfume these days. I think it's pretending to be mandarin.) faded away and I was left with a woody, lavender basil scent that wears very close to my skin and reminds me of the womens frag. (I was light with the application, but even so, many women's scents are stronger than this.) After 20 minutes, it's like it's not even there, except for the odd sharp "pine" note.

This scent would be much better if they had left out the "mandarin" note and took the "icing" off the lavender. (What is this, a cake?)

I am hopeful that this can be layered under the women's scent which is in desperate need of the "deeper" notes that were put into this "men's" concoction. (If those awful topnotes don't ruin it...)

21st May, 2009.

This one had the "blah" effect on me. It really didn't leave a lasting impression and was a little too floral for me. Came off smelling very synthetic. It really didn't have any distinguishing notes that I could tell, so this one definitely isn't one of Polo's best.

17th May, 2009.