Quorum Puig 1982 Eau de Toilette

Bottle Design:
André Ricard

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7.6 / 10 442 Ratings

A popular perfume by Puig for men, released in 1982. The scent is spicy-leathery. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Spicy

Leathery

Woody

Green

Earthy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Artemisia

Cumin

Bergamot

Grapefruit Lemon

Lemon

Heart Notes

Carnation

Patchouli

Jasmine

Sandalwood

Cyclamen

Base Notes

Moss

Frankincense Leather

Leather

Tobacco

Amber

Perfumer

Sebastian Gomez

Ratings

Scent

7.6442 Ratings

Longevity

7.5368 Ratings

Sillage

7.2358 Ratings

Bottle

6.4357 Ratings

Value for money

8.9148 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 06/28/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Quorum After Shave

Verde

Aramis Eau de Toilette

Polo Eau de Toilette

L'Homme (2008)

Astor Cologne

Reviews

18 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/18/2013

5
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Gmmcnair
40 Reviews

Gmmcnair

Very helpful Review 6

Danger! Olfactory Bomb Ahead

...but in a good way. Quorum is powerful, dry, and smells like nothing else on the market from its time, nor like anything else today. It truly is a love or hate fragrance.

Me, I love it, it is unabashedly strong, crass, and masculine. The cumin in the top adds a sweaty and dirty note to this fragrance. The tobacco and the frankincense add a smoky note to the leather.

My impression of Quorum is that it smells like the classic bad boy with the leather jacket, and cigarette hanging from his mouth. He may be cleaned up but he's still aggressive and a little dirty. I think of Quorum that way; bad boy without the questionable hygiene and stale ashtray smell.

Longevity is quite good. This stuff goes 12+ hours on my skin. Very strongly for the first 6. Go easy on the sprayer with this one. It is enough to clear a room if oversprayed. One shot on the chest after a shower is usually plenty.

08/03/2022

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

JavSantana
59 Reviews

JavSantana

Very helpful Review 6

Best bang for the buck 80's powerhouse

First of all, a couple of things to make clear in my review:
1: Not a powerhouse in performance, but surely in scent
2: Never knew the vintage version

I received Quorum in the mail while mantaining a couple of my personal leather jackets in my garage. Then i saw the mail guys stop in the next house and then carry the package toward me. Even though the house door was open, they didn't spot me until i talked to them and they even said the doorbell was spoiled. (Which is true) Anyway, after opening the box and bottle, i sprayed a couple on. I had heard some pretty weird stuff on the reviews of it. Body odor smell, cat piss opening, et cetera. Doesn't really make it for me, however i am certainly used to the funk in vintage perfumery since they are the scents i enjoy the most.

Quorum opens with an aggressive blast of raw, mountain or hilltop artemisia (My house is in front of a hill, so... Not sure if actual artemisia abrotanum grows in there but there is a similar plant with a pungeant herbal smell which i can relate to) Then settles into a gorgeous, foresty pine heart, and goes into a drydown based pretty much on a rather strangely concieved leather accord with animalic touches, tobacco, slight hints of amber, (Don't know why people said it was sweet or bs) a touch of spicy caraway and A TON of moss. Not really a soap as stated by other reviewers in other sites, the drydown i find it to be pretty much similar to Antaeus by Chanel and also pretty similar to straight out OG Polo green, a heavily animalic musk undertone with smoke and amber to it, kind of a leather / wood chypre drydown.

Bottom line: I find Quorum to be a mixture of characters from fragrances such as Paco Rabanne Pour Homme and Chanel Antaeus. I don't find a similarity to Drakkar Noir or even to Polo green, all of which i have smelled and even own. (Except Antaeus, nowadays a properly reformulated, good lasting woody / leather chypre but the drydown reeks of marijuana smoke)

While Drakkar Noir is a well groomed, cleanly shaven, slightly muscular young guy, Polo is an elegant, suit dressed executive. Quorum on the other side is a guy in flannel and denim who just killed a beaver and extracted the musk sack, while smoking pipe tobacco under a pine with moss and herbs growing in the soil. Extremely masculine, with all due respect, no women can wear this from a cultural point of view. Smells to me like a heavier, more macho and raw, less refined Paco Rabanne Pour Homme. Can be a good substitute for either PRPH and Antaeus at a much lower price range. I will buy another bottle as soon as i have the chance, good 15 bucks paid for it but way better than any perfume at way higher price ranges. Longevity and projection have lowered considerably, but still outperforms modern day EDT's and even some "EDP's". Still the scent trail would probably be challenging to like wear it on the office. Greetings

Edit: I didn't buy it again. I found that aging the liquid (Had it for around two years) made it extremely dark and the tobacco note turned disgusting. Even when being likeable, i prefer it fresh and finishing the bottle in around a year.

04/24/2022

5
Pricing 4
Bottle 10
Sillage 8
Longevity 6
Scent

manlyscents
96 Reviews

manlyscents

8

One of the worst reformulations in the history of mankind

This bottle of reformulated Quorum will always be in my collection... *this* same bottle I mean, because I never wear it outside the house.

The opening is big, harsh, smoky, green. After that it smells half like fabric softener, and half like a sweaty chain-smoking man covered in shrubs. I assume fabric softener is how my nose registers the soapy pine in this one because I get the same thing with the reformulated One Man Show by Jacques Bogart.

Imagine if you took Ralph Lauren Polo green and toned down what makes it pleasant and then amped up what's unpleasant. Quorum is a unique uber masculine scent, so I don't regret the dirt cheap blind buy, but I use it around the house more than on myself. A powerhouse for sure... I used it recently to freshen my car after I had utilized a ton of WD40 to remove sticker residue from the windshield. 4 sprays of Quorum easily annihilated the massively acute smell of WD40.

Warning: 2 sprays absolute max, but 0 sprays is probably ideal for me.

Masculinity Level: The sweaty scrotum of the big fat villain from Over The Top.

01/20/2024

5
Pricing 7
Bottle 5
Sillage 2.5
Scent

Shpeeep
9 Reviews

Shpeeep

4

Dank hotel

At $9.99AUD for a stylish 30ml bottle evoking the 80s origins of this, I felt like the risk was low since I am a lover of green woody aromatic scents. I admit my hopes were unreasonable given the price, as I had read reviews implying this is on par with vintage versions of more luxuriously priced woody mens fragrances, and perhaps that made me expect to smell something you would never guess was found in the section of the pharmacy that is not behind glass. To me this smells like an old style 3 star hotel, decorated and scented to please tired businessmen, with a faint cigarette smoke that will never come out of the thick curtains. Comparisons to detective films check out, this is very hard-boiled, down to the shady-part-of-town PI office with affordable rent and comically bad neighbours, but alongside a dry understanding of the world and the nature of things, and an appreciation of one or two finer things - perhaps a bottle of Laphroaig quarter cask (the smokiest and peatiest available) in the bottom drawer. Unforgiving, competitive, deep dark and very very dry, a frag for a man who hasn't shed a sober tear in 35 years. The name feels almost cheeky, like it's saying 'quorum of one, you can make all your decisions for yourself'.

I would wear this to outdoor evening events in winter, like a bonfire or casual party. Somewhere that I would smoke if I hadn't quit, and where the dry and stern smoky wood of this fragrance will give me the steadfastness I need to maintain the streak.

Will give it another go, as it's possible the first spray out the nozzle of a fresh bottle isn't a fair reflection. I used 2 sprays, and scrubbed one arm after 15 minutes as the initial artificial smell was just too overpowering at that time, but this has led to a much faster fade than other people experience, and I would consider it imperceptible two hours later. Perhaps this will get more use from me than I think. I will update this review if it surprises me.

EDIT/UPDATE: Tried it again today, spritzed from much further away from my arm to aerate a touch, and for a split second I got excited thinking it was showing me it's true self, dry barky log in the woods, beyond which a lone iris is protected by ferns in a single ray of sun pierced through the thick canopy above. But as soon as it hit my skin I was faced with dark dirty old motel with stale cigarette smoke leeching out of second hand but not really vintage wooden furniture, carpet that used to be a different colour but I couldn't tell you which colour that was, and an inspirational poster of a forest on the wall behind dirty glass. It has stayed that way. My conclusion is that the problem is how it sits on my skin rather than the fragrance itself. Therefore, I have a 30ml bottle (absent 4 sprays) free to a good home in Melbourne, Australia

03/08/2023

8
Pricing 7
Bottle 6
Sillage 5
Longevity 8
Scent

Klvsclassix
11 Reviews

Klvsclassix

Helpful Review 3

Great retro scent but the longevity isn't!

Hi everyone,
I am in love with classic frags, well, most of them.
I am also new to collecting, about a year which is nothing in the community as a whole and this is my first review.
My dad wore Quorum in the 80s & 90s and I just loved it then and love the scent now.

But, as I'm sure many have observed.... It last litte time at all on skin, well mine anyway. The silage does last a lot longer on clothes though.

I find the opening a little harsh and synthetic but the dry down is far far less synthetic and much better.
It is worth the price! I paid just under a tenner £10 in the UK.

As some have pointed out it is a nod to a time when very masculine frags were OK to wear and it's a counter to the modern bubble gum unisex stuff which I personally think are all turning into one scent... Not for me really.

I mostly wear this in my place. I did once go out to the pub wearing it and a group of late teens on the bus said they could smell a strong scent of sharpie pen haha . One woman in her mid to late 40s said it was nice that a man smelled that way (she didn't say sharpie though ) so it wasn't all bad ;-)

Still.... I think it's worth an outing again.

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