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Moderate masculinity with versatility gain
The original 1982 Quorum, even in its thinned-out formula today, represents the dust-dry green herbaceousness of a solid man's fragrance with many ingediencies, but speaking with one voice, calling one chord.
Quorum Silver only very briefly gives a whiff of that primordiality, then settles into a field of ginger-cardamom-mandarin-lavender on a - reading from the scent notes - cedar base. Aha. Cedar it is.
Delicious without being too sweet. There's something scratchy in there too, but only ever as a base, never coming to the fore. This distinguishes it from many light modern fragrances: it has a solid base on which the delicious woody fruitiness can unfold. The whole thing airy, light, and then remaining almost unchanged for several hours. The colour of the liquid is a perfect match. Speaking of the bottle, it seems fragile to me. Perhaps a symbol of the contemporary nature of masculinity, or rather its questioning. Quorum Silver has some of that, fits quite well for an androgynous woman in my view. As with the man, less a fragrance for body builders in muscle shirts, more for a suit wearer. Rather Pierce Brosnan than Sean Connery.
The shelf life is quite okay, a few more spritzes needts already for a daily ration. The sillage is already thoughtful at the beginning, but then remains the same for a long time and is not so quickly to the Skin-Scent.
What makes it stand out is its versatility and seasonal indeterminacy: makes itself well in a pollen-flooded spring, a sun-drenched summer, a rainy-windy autumn and a foggy-cold winter day.
Now is this a more modern take on the classic? In my opinion: No. It's something of its own. If I didn't know it was called Quorum, I wouldn't think so.
I can't really name a fragrance twin. My cedar scents (at least the ones with that in the name) are not comparable: Lagerfeld's Bois de Cèdre is much more tart, no sweetness at all, more peppery-soapy; Ferrari's Cedar Essence goes in the direction of a slightly powdery-creamy detergent cleanliness (?) and Armani's Eau de Cèdre also has a similar sweetness to Quorum Silver, but more like sweetened black tea with added sage.
In short: a fragrance that does not easily fall out of time. Fit 2005, fits 2021.
Quorum Silver only very briefly gives a whiff of that primordiality, then settles into a field of ginger-cardamom-mandarin-lavender on a - reading from the scent notes - cedar base. Aha. Cedar it is.
Delicious without being too sweet. There's something scratchy in there too, but only ever as a base, never coming to the fore. This distinguishes it from many light modern fragrances: it has a solid base on which the delicious woody fruitiness can unfold. The whole thing airy, light, and then remaining almost unchanged for several hours. The colour of the liquid is a perfect match. Speaking of the bottle, it seems fragile to me. Perhaps a symbol of the contemporary nature of masculinity, or rather its questioning. Quorum Silver has some of that, fits quite well for an androgynous woman in my view. As with the man, less a fragrance for body builders in muscle shirts, more for a suit wearer. Rather Pierce Brosnan than Sean Connery.
The shelf life is quite okay, a few more spritzes needts already for a daily ration. The sillage is already thoughtful at the beginning, but then remains the same for a long time and is not so quickly to the Skin-Scent.
What makes it stand out is its versatility and seasonal indeterminacy: makes itself well in a pollen-flooded spring, a sun-drenched summer, a rainy-windy autumn and a foggy-cold winter day.
Now is this a more modern take on the classic? In my opinion: No. It's something of its own. If I didn't know it was called Quorum, I wouldn't think so.
I can't really name a fragrance twin. My cedar scents (at least the ones with that in the name) are not comparable: Lagerfeld's Bois de Cèdre is much more tart, no sweetness at all, more peppery-soapy; Ferrari's Cedar Essence goes in the direction of a slightly powdery-creamy detergent cleanliness (?) and Armani's Eau de Cèdre also has a similar sweetness to Quorum Silver, but more like sweetened black tea with added sage.
In short: a fragrance that does not easily fall out of time. Fit 2005, fits 2021.
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