Polo Blue (2002)
by Ralph Lauren

The opening is wonderful. It's very smooth and watery, quite "blue," with a sweet-ish cucumber note. Reminds me of walking along the beach in the early evening, a slight breeze blowing, next to a blue ocean...

...and then some jackass runs up and hits me in the face with a pizza.

Uh, who thought it would be a good idea for such a blue, watery, aquatic fragrance like this to dry down to basil? Basil! As in the type of basil you keep in your spice cabinet that you use to make pizza or Italian spaghetti.

This dry-down is just gross, and completely ruins what would have been a great fragrance.

Someone at Ralph Lauren needs to be fired. Or beaten. Or both.

This just smells very generic to me, it reminds me of a time when men's aftershave was generic and everyone had basically the same scent. The fragrance is harsh on my nose, the "fresh" scent reminding me more of something very astringent and biting.

one of the freshest and simpleist scents ever.very plain but catchy. good but not great but every man should at least sample it for yourself. i was lucky and won it in a raffle.great for summer and spring.

This totally fails though im always wanting to add to my collection of classics. Even the original Polo(Green bottled)and Armani EPH which i have are far better despite being one of the lowest ranked classics in my collection. This is quite distasteful imo. I find that its thickness leads to nothing enjoyable, nothing fantastic and the fact that is is priced above many powerhhouse classics, makes it even more unwelcomed. It is a durable scent above many others by polo RL but thats all there is to it. I find it to be rubbery smelling and quite like tyres and car exhaust. Maybe my usual mechanic workshop smells of it but i doubt anyone there would be wearing any fragrance since its entirely non-air con and very humid. Honestly I dont feel bad at all being a little more harsh on the male Polo range, they have been consistently very disappointing to me at least. Im still waiting with a Polo that can make it into my collection, i like bottles very much and have been wanting to add to the my range of polos since they all or mostly are represented my strong colours, but i just havent been able to bring myself to get something that i totally wouldnt at all wear and probably regret after. another substandard attempt. No thanks.

first of all its a nice scent, my gf likes it a lot,
It starts sweet, then fades to a nice melon, cucumber, basil mix which smells nice and not offending, I dont like aquatics like coolwater which has a pronounce alcoholish cologne scent, or aquatics which has citric notes which turns sour on warm days, polo blue is sweet and cucumbery fresh, and doesnt turn sour on humid days, Its the one of the top Blue scents

I want to like it, and sometimes I do for a few minutes at a time. The 'fresh' notes are overwhelming...it's overpowering. Melon notes are mixed with green notes, but they enhance each other instead of balancing each other. Although I generally like aquatic/fresh scents, and although I generally like RL offerings, Blue is just too synthetic smelling to be enjoyable.