Quercia Eau de Parfum

Acqua-di-Parma/Quercia-Eau-de-Parfum .. Is a complex masterclass Personal score ====== Scent - 9.2/10 Sillage (scent trail) - 8.6/10 Projection - 7.2/10 Longevity - 8.8/10 Compliment factor - 8.9/10 Female approval factor - 8.2/10 Versatility - 7.8/10 Overall rating - 9/10 Review ====== Bought this fragrance recently after going into a high end department store in the UK (twice) to smell the Acqua-di-Parma signature range, Quercia-Eau-de-Parfum was by far the best smelling to me out of the range even more than the popular Oud EDP, its taken me a week to finally commit to purchasing Acqua-di-Parma Quercia given its high price tag for 180ml, but i just couldn't get this fragrance out of my head, i have quite a large collection now, not as big as some but bigger than most, I found this fragrance to be a revelation in the opening which is far superior to many expensive fragrances i have smelled, Quercia has a dynamic and complex dry down owed to the fact that this uses a lot of natural ingredients and you can absolutely smell the difference, the longevity of Quercia EDP is fantastic lasts all day on me and is a skin scent 24+ hours after, the projection is also excellent giving me 2+ hours of a 4-6 feet bubble to 1 feet after the 3-4 hour period. This fragrance just screams class and sophistication with a modern twist, you can wear this fragrance dressed up or dressed down its not limited in that regard, when wearing this fragrance you will not smell like everyone else it may share similarities with some fragrances but you can just smell a lot of naturals in this from beginning to end, Quercia EDP is like going from smelling in standard definition to high definition is the best way i can describe it, you pick up on more nuances in the fragrance from start to finish, people who understand quality will recognise this fragrance as being such and compliment accordingly, i would say this is a safe fragrance for 28+ age group. This fragrance should be on your radar when next you go shopping, i know its a little pricey but its a fantastic offering from Acqua-di-Parma in my opinion one of their best in the Signature line and one of the best i have smelled in a long time and I'm now a happy owner. Scent break down ====== Naturally Fresh Opening, Slightly Spicy/Woody Heart Notes, with a Earthy/Sweet/Mossy dry down.

I bought this at duty-free (about half of my collection is from there at this point) about three months ago as a gift for someone else, but upon smelling it a second time and realizing the person I was going to give this to probably wouldn't appreciate this vibe, I thought, screw it, I'm keeping this myself. And so began my first experience owning an Acqua di Parma cologne. My impressions? A luxurious office-safe fragrance. Almost reminds me of one of the Dior Homme fragrances, ever-so-slightly, as it evokes a similar vibe, but Quercia is darker and richer. There's something intriguing about the drydown. It's indulgent. You can tell the elements used to concoct this are of superb quality. I will say though that despite being marketed as unisex, to my nose the scent profile is almost exclusively masculine. However, if you feel confident that you can pull it off, regardless of gender, then you probably will. Honestly, if I were a hotshot CEO, I'd wear this every day. Right now, as a college student, I'm saving it for important deadlines like final reviews/presentations or internship interviews, especially those around this time of year (mid-to-late autumn). I find that the scent can be on the mature side, but if you're young but a more serious type person, or are just professionally active or highly involved in your industry, then consider making this your scent. This was my first Acqua di Parma fragrance (though I have tried the shampoo and conditioners at hotels: they're a MUST BUY), and I definitely wasn't disappointed. Given the niche prices, I came to expect this quality of a scent, but this definitely has a certain edge, a nice universally-safe feel to it, a quality that perhaps other niche fragrances don't possess. In my opinion, everything The One by Dolce and Gabbana should've been (I might be too soon to speak since I haven't tested any of its flankers). If you need something that's pleasant to every nose, opt for this. SCORE: 91%

Acqua di Parma Quercia has been my favourite fragrance for approximately a year, and my appreciation for it has only grown with time. I first encountered it in a fragrance boutique and was immediately captivated from the opening spray. A few weeks later, I purchased the 180 ml bottle, and it has remained the fragrance I reach for most consistently. From a collection of around 22 bottles, Quercia is the one I genuinely miss whenever I have not worn it for a few days. Its opening is exceptionally vibrant, with lime, lemon and bergamot creating a sharp, polished citrus brightness. Almost immediately, the pink pepper becomes the central feature of the composition, delivering an energetic, sparkling spiciness that remains prominent throughout much of the wear. The citrus and pepper are balanced beautifully by the dark, earthy character of oakmoss. This contrast gives Quercia both freshness and depth, preventing it from feeling like a conventional citrus fragrance. It is refined, dry and slightly shadowy, with a distinctly elegant quality. Despite its woody and forest-inspired identity, I do not detect a strong cedar note. On my skin, the woods remain subtle, appearing more as a structural element in the heart and base rather than as an identifiable note. The oakmoss and pink pepper are far more noticeable. Quercia is ultimately a sophisticated citrus-aromatic fragrance with a rich mossy foundation and an outstanding pink-pepper presence. It is fresh without being light, dark without being heavy, and distinctive without becoming difficult to wear. For me, it is an addictive pink-pepper bomb and one of the most compelling fragrances in Acqua di Parma’s collection.

Why does this fragrance smell so addictive? I can't get enough whiffs of it. Bought a 10ml travel spray to test it out since I love fougeres. Its a modern take on a barbershop fougere. I say modern because it wants to go full shaving cream foam but stops itself right before it does. Similar to how Percival does it. I tell myself over and over "Its a fougere, been that done that, dont need a bottle" Then a minute later is Im telling myself "Damn this smells so addictive I think I need a full bottle" As Im wearing this it reminds me of the bare bone base of Percival. Except Percival is way more Aromatic. Im talking about the very base below the Percival Aromatics. I think thats why I love this frag. The opening is very nice. Its like a beautiful light green super light herbaceous soft green but yet sweet and citrus type of fragrance that also has some orange citrus facets thats spiced up just a bit by the pepper. Lasts about a good 30 minutes. The mid and base notes fuse together after that into this creamy but also bright patchouli moss base thats sweetened by the tonka and cardamom. I think the cedar and geranium is what gives the dry down this bright fougere vibe. Its very bright and strong, in a beautiful inviting way. This stuff is signature scent worthy. I dont detect any cheap synthetic ingridients. I smell high quality ingridients, very natural smelling. I feel like this is what Acqua di Gio Profondo should've been or this is the direction AdG should've went. This is a 10 out of 10. Safe blind buy for any man, really.

"Quercia takes you on a walk through a forest of oak trees where the mysterious green scent in the air inspires a fresh and earthy sensation". Well, I am rather taken on a walk through an airport circa 1993 either near the duty free or alongside business men aged 40-55 (at the time). This is maybe unfair, because Acqua di Parma has tried to modernise an otherwise well tried style. But to me, there is simply too much Cool Water and Wunderbaum car perfume, connotations that were way too common for me to fall in love with this. To begin with, I become very curious as I take in the first impressions, because I used to love the good ones of this category. But the drydown is a dissapointment. Where in my memory the good ones must have had sandalwood or something to support the moss (oakmoss needs to grow on something solid after all), what I get here is a recurring synthetic baseline – ambroxan I suppose. It is exactly what finally made me sell my Dior Sauvage Eau de Parfum, and that connotation is vividly present here as well. If you are younger, >45 and lack the airport experience of yore, I suggest you give it a try if you have the money, because many will love this. The oakmoss dupe is quite nicely executed, but the supporting acts takes too much of my own attention, alas.

Been comparing Quercia vs Oud vs Sandalo. They're all very very nice for brisk fall and winter weather. Quercia is the freshest and the most citrusy of the bunch. Not as creamy, woody, or dark as the others, but has those elements as well. Citrus opening drying down to a dry, warm, woody backbone with a hint of leather and sweetness. Very nice. Not as creamy and sweet as Sandalo. Not as oudy and woody as Oud. Has shades of both, but entirely different and maybe my favorite. Weaker and less sillage than those as well tho. Scent: 8.5 / Sillage: 7.5 / Longevity: 7.5 (3/4/2022) UPDATE (11/29/2023) Revisiting and comparing to Oud and Leather. Leather is a smooth luxury black leather, dry and stark. Oud is a smooth clean oud that dries down to a slight bit of funk. Both have a lot of similarities. Quercia is an outlier as I remembered...brighter, more citrus, more traditional lavender and oakmoss vibes. Only the slightest hints of the Oud and Leather vibes. While it's the easiest to wear...it might be the least unique and special. I'm a bit torn bc I'd like to get some more of this, but I have many others that fit this mandate. Oud might be the best one to double up on since I don't have many Ouds and dark woody frags. Scent: 8 / Sillage: 7.5 / Longevity

This is one of those that the main accords breakdown actually gets really accurate. Everything everyone else is saying is accurate for this too. This is not a strong cedar, patchouli fragrance FYI. It is slight citrus spicy aromatic and for sure reminds me of a better version of a body spray I wore when I was 16-20. I was not into fragrances at that time and admittedly did not have the best concept of personal hygiene. I was clean, but these days I take pimp showers, exfoliating and cleansing my whole body, then lotion and fragrance. Even though I was a scrub back in the day, I wore stuff that smelled like this and got mad ass fr. Don't dog the body spray. However, those body sprays don't last but a couple hours and this is a great 5-7 hour fragrance. Explosive at first, but tones down to a nice scent bubble of 3 ft. I have a bunch by Acqua di Parma and this is probably top 5 for sure. This is definitely a man's scent 30 and up. I really think they would have a difficult time cloning this.

I've worn ADP fragrances for years and have owned most of them, and tested all of them. Most people sleep on this one, but it's low key pretty good. You must like tart (pink pepper, lemon, bergamot) fragrances to enjoy this. This is a modern ADP and not the classic variety, which are even better and are being discontinued 🫤. It's got some base ambrox but it's not dosed into the stratosphere. Oakmoss (evernyl), Geranium (very slight mint) and petigrain give it an another reserved green layer, and a little patch give it some depth, but still suitable for the heat. My only beef is the tonka sweetness in base. I could do without it. It's a cousin to the extremely expensive Mousse De Chen and easier for most people to wear. Sometimes I'll combine it with oakmoss absolute and it's even better.

Sometimes opinions change over time, and that has certainly happened with Quercia. My previous review was based on a decant that could have been reformulated since. At any rate: What I found a bit annoying and synthetic a year or two ago has changed to the extent that I bought a full bottle and I am very happy about it. Quercia is a modern fougère in EDP concentration that strikes a balance between oakmoss and coumarin that I absolutely love. While my decant from a few years ago had a somewhat plasticky connotation that got too much over a few hours wear, it is not present in my current bottle. Very “safe” choice for most people I would believe. Year around, all occasions. Not a “Come hither” choice for the club scene, though. Excellent performance.

OK I agree with everything that StreetEvident says in their recent review below, so will not duplicate. However will add that (as an AdP fan), Quercia is the most situationally variable of their scents that I’ve come across. I was first introduced to Quercia at an airport and was really intrigued. However the next few times of airport samples, I was less convinced. Finally I took the plunge to order my own bottle and it’s great, wonderfully mossy yet fresh. Why the variance? A few thoughts: - maybe freshness of the bottle? - maybe AdP continues to adjust the blend? - maybe this scent works rather better on cooler skin than warmer? In any case, very happy now I have my own 100ml and will see how it goes!

"Oak." A heaping dose of oakmoss popping with pink pepper, cardamom, and fresh citruses. Rich mossy and woody scent speckled with fresh aromatics, warm spices, and lightly sweetened. Dries down to spiced wood. Moderately strong projection for 3-4hr lingers as a modest scent bubble for 5-6hr, longevity 12hr+. A classically masculine spicy woody scent. Dunno why it's called Oak when it's mostly moss and the only wood note advertised is cedar, but nonetheless it smells pretty great. An EDP with performance that blows most of this house's fragrances out of the water.

Reminds me of a fresh night spent in the forest, with oakmoss undertone and casual sweet whiffs of fresh herbs. I find it very pleasant, alluring and quite inoffensive. The quality is top notch you can tell immediately that is packed with natural ingredient. It sits in the same category of Lalique Equus for me. These kind of fragrances that you put on and you are immediately taken back in time, when you were in the nature... Is not a blind buy safe kind of fragrance though especially full retail. With a nice offer at discounters might be blind-buy worthy

This opens up with excellent tangy and tart citruses which ADP does really well, but the drydown is the best part if you love oakmoss, albeit, synthetic. This has a nice hit of oakmoss along with tonka sweetened creamy woods. Reminds me of 19-69 L'air Barbes oakmoss but Quercia is longer lasting. Perfect with a white dress shirt siping a gin and tonic or a mojito in the sun. Scent 9/10 Performance 7/10

Fragrance that opens supreme on imposing green, aromatic notes, lively fresh spicy notes, imbued with inebriating citrus scents of rare purity. The olfactory evolution brings out the freshness of Petitgrain and cardamom on the citrus triumph, framed by the faint and reassuring musky fragrance and the mystical sensuality of patchouli and Tonka bean. Fragrance with surprising olfactory evolution.

This is my all time new favorite fragrance. This is perfect. Something a sexy well dressed man would walk around in italy with. It's insanely attractive scent. I showered 6 hours ago, and still smell it well on my arm, performance is ridicilous. JUST BUY IT. 10/10. Simple great scent. It feels the same as when you hear a new song you feel like you've heard before because it's just so good.

This is my fave ADP and my go to scent for a night out. It’s masculine and sexy and very distinctive. For me it’s all about the cedar, it’s been executed perfectly. There’s also a background sweetness. I can’t compare it to anything I’ve smelled. I have a 100ml and 180ml I hope they never discontinue it! Performance is strong.

Quercia was the surprise scent from batch of samples I got. Woody fragrances rarely wow me, Quercia is one of those. It smells well blended, expensive and ever so slightly medicinal, yet very sensual. Too bad it seems to be discontinued, I have only a miniature which I'll have to wear very sparingly.

This is so good. Opens up as a very classic men's scent, aromatic, woody, with a cola note.Quite strong but very pleasant. The dry down is a distantly smoky, mossy, woody, like there was an charred oak log near by but the fire was put out a good while ago. Lasting power is 12hrs+ on me.

My wife has the black bottle. A candied, spicy opening drying to wood and tonka. Decent performance. Autumnal? To me this is a very good, classy, sexy fragrance well worth owning, suitable for special occasions. Very few others will be wearing it I suspect. 4/5

This is one of the smoothest mens frgrances, long lasting and the dry down is like creamy with the Tonka, cedar and Pink pepper perfectly blended. Lasting over 6 hours and on my clothes even the next day.