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Aqua Quorum by Antonio Puig Eau de Toilette Spray 100ml

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It evokes the image of a damp forest adorned with sweet flowers and surrounded by natural gas deposits near mossy pools of water. It's an OK sweet aquatic, sort of reminding me of Polo Blue but with more sweet, floral top notes rather than the dry cucumber.

When people slam the nineties and aquatics, it pays to remember that the aquatic genre, like all genres, bears some beautiful products, and this is one of them. Aqua Quorum keeps its simplicity, getting a wee bit warmer, rounded probably leather and amber playing a role here. AQUA (WATER), PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), LIMONENE, LINALOOL, CITRONELLOL, HYDROXYCITRONELLAL, CITRAL, GERANIOL, COUMARIN, ISOEUGENOL, ALPHA-ISOMETHYL IONONE. One of the first Aqua fragrances I was aware of, and I still have a handy 100ml bottle lurking at the back.

Gets compared to Cool Water and Eternity a lot, I can say from someone who uses Cool Water quite often that it is quite different to those fragrances, it feels more like a sporty fragrance. The fragrance exudes a remarkably natural aroma, accentuated by a distinct haunting note of honeysuckle and lemon. One of my workhorse scents, along with Eternity Aqua, Eternity Summer circa 2012, and TB Very Cool, when the heat is on. It's neither the most refined, nor sophisticated but it smells wonderful and has been around for a majority of my life and I'm glad it has! Especially those who aren't big fans of citrus scents (the grapefruit is noticeable, but it isn't sour and the juice doesn't give a very citrusy impression), and for people who don't like the melon notes that infest a lot of aquatics out there.

The difference between Cool Water and Aqua Quorum is most pronounced early on: Cool Water smells much more synthetic, while A Q smells natural and quite clearly fougere-ish. The bottle from The Cosmetics Factory arrived just in time since it has been somewhat summery at least in the day, over this weekend. The fruitiness almost reminds me of the shampoo-like components of Grabazzi or Horizon, which is a minor annoyance, but I don't find it to stick out as obtrusively as in those two. As it dried down it goes to a weirdly dark place for a warm weather frag because of the oakmoss an’ leather, which gives it a bit more of a hairy-chestedness than a lot of the stuff it’d be shelved next to.The leather isn't that dusty old study leather of its predecessor, just a faint hint of a shoe leather or an old wallet. Received this as a gift for christmas - it’s nothing special but it does smell nice - it’s very wearable and inoffensive. Now when you hear these words like fresh, aqua etc, it sounds bad, referring to light, gym-wear skin scents. It is quite weighty though enlivened by a distinct velvety sharpness with lingering alcoholic notes of lavender, leather and oakmoss. Longevity is pretty decent for an EDT, about 3-4 hours (Some of the smell is still left on my skin about 6-7 hours later though!

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