Polo Red Intense
Polo Red Intense opens with a jolt of saffron and citrus, bright but tinged metallic, like striking a match in cold air.
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.
- Leather40
- Incense35
- Amber35
- Orange25
- Lavender25
By the editors · 2 min readPolo Red Intense opens with a jolt of saffron and citrus, bright but tinged metallic, like striking a match in cold air. The saffron persists through the heart, where it tangles with sage and a coffee note that reads more bitter-roasted than sweet. There's lavender somewhere in the mix, smoothing the sharper edges, and orange blossom that never quite blooms fully—it stays compressed, folded into the spice.
The base settles into leather and amber with that coffee shadow still hovering. The leather is polished rather than animalic, office-appropriate, though the overall effect skews louder than subtle. It's built for cold weather and confident gestures, the kind of fragrance that announces itself when you walk into a room.
