Quorum Puig 1982 Eau de Toilette
The opening is famously aggressive — cumin's warm body-odor pungency hits immediately, layered over lemon and grapefruit that try valiantly to keep things fresh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Leather70
- Tobacco60
- Mossy60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is famously aggressive — cumin's warm body-odor pungency hits immediately, layered over lemon and grapefruit that try valiantly to keep things fresh. The cumin wins; the citrus reads more like a frame than a dominant note.
The heart pivots to dry sandalwood with jasmine adding a thin animal-floral hum and patchouli deepening the earth. As the base settles in, oakmoss adds a damp green-bitter foundation, leather appears unsmoothed and slightly raw, frankincense lends a smoky-resinous halo, and tobacco brings dry leafy warmth. Amber softens the edges only slightly. Projection is loud in the first hours; the texture stays dense, dry, and unapologetically masculine in a vintage register.
Overall the character is a smoky, leather-mossy chypre with a famous cumin signature — assertive, adult, decidedly not modern-clean.
Scent twins
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