You can feel the age of this fragrance(40th anniversary in 2021), and as I mentioned in my Guerlain Heritage review, there is nothing modern about it. Today, Ysl is owned by L’Oreal with over 200 boutiques opened worldwide. Ready-to-wear products, shoes, leather goods, and jewelry is their product range.

Performance is good, and funnily enough, on the same level as almost every modern designer out there. The recent trend of wearing subtle fragrances in the working environment has caught up with the old Kouros as well. Printed grey Kouros name along with brand and oil concentration is found on the front of the bottle. The bottle design is everything Saint Laurent stood for, thus I’m quite fond of it. I was expecting this to be awful, but it's just okay. Not bad, but not for me. Soapy, powdery and musky. Smells like what I imagine the early 80's smelled like. I can't see this getting you any compliments. I asked my brother what he thought and he said, "smells like an ashtray." Kouros is the same for me. When I wear it, it doesn't smell good in a modern way. But it makes me want to seduce, to conquer, to fight.If you are well accustomed to the original King Kouros, you may feel, for sure, a bit underwhelmed- as it is not the monster fragrance it was. For practical reasons however, it is better placed to hedge the every day (in)formal settings, retaining, in the current translation, a substantial part of the original message.

I love this! Just received a bottle today (of the aftershave splash) smells like a more fresh, green version of original kouros with more lavender! If the aftershave is this good I can’t wait to get my hands on the eau de toilette, hopefully soon as I want to wear it this summer! For an aftershave has quite strong sillage also Edit : The opening is more on the incensy side like I said, but after two hours, it settles into this musky soap that I love. To no surprise, I have never received a compliment or a comment when I wore this scent. But hey, that’s quite understandable. You wear “ The Scent of Gods” for yourself, don’t you? A fragrance for men, not for boys. Because immature or mainstreamers will never really understand such fragrances and always quite silly, sometimes below the belt about it, because they can not do otherwise and because this philosophy, the statement, will forever deny themselves to them of a revelation. But then again, Kouros is primordially erotic, sensual, of desire. And this hunk soon goes swimming, to cool down in the clear blue waters. From afar you gaze, watching how he swims with artistic grace, taking long strokes until he disappears into the ocean, only to emerge refreshed, with a white brief, that barely hides his masculinity. He smiles politely at you, and lays down on his towel. You feel embarrassed but somehow, you can’t stop staring at him. He lights a cigarette, and suddenly you smell the smoke that comes out of his full lips, the light sweat, the smell of salt evaporating from his body, the smell of Coppertone sun oil; you smell him. And the smell, combined, feels animal, debaucherous, lustful, hedonistic. There’s nothing explicitly sexual, but you get aroused simply by the thought of it; a hot summer, a one night stand, a perfect stranger. Living dangerously, youth is risky and hormone driven. Let go and surrender.

I've never smelled the old school versions. A friend of mine recommended it to me and I just bought a 100ml bottle. I understand the comparison with the urinal/ toilet smell but that's just a confusion because of the disinfectant fragrance used in eastern european public bathrooms. It's combined with urine and that's how oflactory memory works, right? :)) Yes, Kouros have its own lively persona. animalic, strong and full of character. You don't wear Kouros, since Kouros will wear you. It will drive your emotion, giving certain sense of masculinity into the limit previously unknown. not a scent that you would love, nothing sweet or spicy here. pure animalic civet and slight leathery honey to make you feel like Tarzan in the modern world people have got it wrong. Kouros doesn’t smell like urinal biscuits, but urinal biscuits do smell like kouros. It's musky and animalic, but not in a pissy way. It's animalic like you could smell the fur of an animal, with all those scents around. I wore this perfume when it came out, and it must be said that at the time it was overwhelming compared to what was intended for men, the banal eau de toilette fleeting as if the masculine class dared to wear perfume but be careful, not like the women with their perfumes announcing their arrival.

In 2015, Pierre launched his own brand under the Pierre Bourdon name with a line made from five fragrances. EDIT 08.09.2018: The comparison with a sample from an old vintage bottling revealed the following: I am not odorless when it comes to animal notes! The smell of a superficially maintained but obviously in need of renovation pub toilet keeps the above-mentioned warm and soft notes at bay for hours. Housekeeper's comment: "I couldn't sleep the night away because a very Stone Age part of my brain was desperately trying to stop me from sleeping next to a sleeping cougar." I smelled this for the first time in my life. Before that, I was met with how unpleasant, animalic and disgusting this fragrance apparently is, so I never sought to sample it. Sharp aldehydes, artemisia, and clary sage create a soapy top. Under this is a tumult of leather, honey, civet, and patchouli which feels completely alive. This is of course all supported by oakmoss, vetiver, orris, and musks as far as the eye can see.I mean, between the original and the Fraicheur, in the original sometimes less is more, and with the Fraicheur more is more !! Both are great. This is a creative mixture of very aromatic metal old-fashioned soap, honey, powder, animal ,flowers,smoke,clove,patchouli ...i don't know about the vintage but the new versions smell like old urine Ted Lapidus Pour Homme – an aromatic Fougere fragrance released in 1987. The main notes include Honey, Tobacco, and Incense. The lasting power is 24+ hours with great projection.