Polo Red Eau de Parfum
Polo Red Eau de Parfum pulls Polo Red into denser, drier territory.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Balsamic70
- Woody60
- Amber60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lavender
- Labdanum
- Clary Sage
- Guaiac Wood
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readPolo Red Eau de Parfum pulls Polo Red into denser, drier territory. Ginger leads, sharp and warm, immediately tempered by lavender and clary sage that lend the opening an aromatic spine.
Labdanum is the pivot — it binds the herbal heart to a balsamic core, where benzoin and opoponax fold into smoky guaiac wood. Cedar keeps the structure upright so the resins never feel sticky.
The musk rounds out the long tail. Compared to the original Polo Red, this is more grown-up, less candied: a fragrance for a wool overcoat rather than a leather jacket. It performs steadily on a winter evening without ever shouting.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
