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Polo Party! reviewing Ralph Lauren’s men’s fragrance line

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First, a reminder to enter my Tauer perfume set giveaway HERE ! Well, Fathers Da y is nearly upon, us, and my mind turns to men's’ scents…coincidence, maybe. Today, I’m think ing about Ralph Lauren’s ubiquitous Polo line. I have to start this series of reviews of the entire of polo colognes by conceding that it does boast some of the most gorgeous ad copy in the universe. Especially now that the beautiful Nacho Figueras, the player for the Black Watch polo team, is the poster boy. Now if that doesn’t make you want to wear all RL, I don’t know what will… That, and the fact that the RL franchise is one of the most adept at presenting a coherent narrative of images and impressions that somehow convey that most elusive of things, ‘the good life.’ Be they explorers, cowboys, New England Ivy League types, or African snow queens, the lovely creatures that populate the Ralph Lauren universe all seem to possess something, some life, some ease, that the rest of us earth