Kouros

It took around a year to work this into my rotation. I'm so glad I kept with it. So much history in this fragrance. It's a trip down memory lane when I wear it. It's got pedigree. It tells a story. It passes a tourch. It's an aldehydic bomb for a mens fragrance. The dry down is a very nice spicy and musky sandalwood. It's one of my favorites now for that sandalwood incense smell. I won't stop whining about the state of sandalwood compared to what I used to have the pleasure of experiencing 25 some years ago. The civet is kind of at the top with the aldehydes, citruses, flowers, and herbs. The musk in the base is the old man musk a le eau Sauvage by his mentor. You can spray any tart citrus fragrance over this, it tones it down and takes it in that eau Sauvage vintage direction. Issey Miyake or Artisan Pure are ones that others are likey to have easy access to and both worth it to have in a rotation. Give yourself a chance with this. Put on some pads and training wheels and get some experience with it. I want to smoke inside now.

Got a bottle as a bday present from my father in law. Couldn't wear it after the first try for 8 months. One day I was looking for a Diaghilev type scent and remembered I had Kouros laying around. Then the MAGIC happened. I sprayed 1 puff to the back of my neck and that led me to simple conclusion: I found my signature scent for life. Im 29 as of now, grew up with the memory of my father waking me up with that fresh fougere which I still don't know, and I had one goal in life, to leave the same memory to my kid. Not only is Kouros flashbacky, it is complex to the core. I tried everything as a signature and it didn't work, Percival, Mefisto Gentioulmo, GIT, Erolfa (2nd place to kouros), Torino 21, Blue Talisman, Imagination, Vibrato, Decision, Layton, Reflection, you name it!! NOTHING, compares to the magnificent effect only Kouros provides.

I haven't had a bottle of Kouros for ages, since the early 2000s. I smelled it here and there in airports but never got my second bottle for multiple reasons: read about reformulations, I was into other kind of fragrances etc. After so many years I decided to get a bottle for this fall. I don't remember in detail how it was in the early 2000s , most likely I never really paid a lot of attention to it as I do with fragrances now but boy ohh boy this fragrances is still outrageous. Still dirty, still clear, still uber masculine, still potent. It's more potent than 80%-90% of my expensive niche fragrances so it's either back to it's former glory ....or the vintage one was absolutely monstrous, more than anybody really needed. It's Kouros, nothing new to say about it. Just get a bottle and smell like the 80's again.

This is a must have for anybody that is not afraid to sport some old school fragrances!! This is very masculine but also very unique.. I'm not quite the note master, so I can't really detect all the different ingredients, etc. but if you like classics like Obsession, Aramis, old spice, etc. (not saying this smells like any of those in particular) but it's definitely from around that era of 80's fragrances and the scent is really good but can be a bit overpowering if you put too much on, so be easy on the trigger. I suggest getting the 0.27oz travel size before investing in a bigger bottle just because you may or may not like this as much as I do but for around $15 it's worth a shot!

Early on in my perfume obsession, some 16 years ago, I did a lot of online rabbit-holing (you know how it is) and was so intrigued by mercurial reviews and vivid descriptions of Kouros that I couldn't resist seeking out a sniff. No department stores near me (in Canada) carried it, and many didn't even know what I was asking for - YSL's big hit back then was L'Homme, the olfactory equivalent of millennial beige, and any older offering besides Opium was apparently a niche request. So, I had no choice but to hop online and buy a bottle of "King Kouros" blind. Yes, you read that right.