Polo Ralph Lauren 1978 Eau de Toilette
Polo opens with the canonical chypre-fougère masculinity of 1970s America — tarragon and basil share the top notes alongside bergamot in a distinctly herbal-aromatic opening that reads classic without being dated.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Oakmoss75
- Patchouli60
- Vetiver55
- Leather55
- Tobacco50
By the editors · 2 min readPolo opens with the canonical chypre-fougère masculinity of 1970s America — tarragon and basil share the top notes alongside bergamot in a distinctly herbal-aromatic opening that reads classic without being dated. Leather, jasmine, and rose form an unusual heart: the leather bridges the floral notes toward the forest-floor base rather than pulling in an animalic direction.
Oakmoss, vetiver, patchouli, tobacco, amber, cedar, and musk generate the complex drydown the fragrance is known for — that deep, mossy Green quality that defined an entire era of masculine perfumery. A formulation benchmark that holds up as an achievement of proportion.