My signature scent back in the 80's and believe it or not it was a lady killer back then. It kills me that those young bucks say Aventus is King. Not even close it's King Kouros! Appreciate the review.
You must try Kouros on the skin as it reacts differently to each body's chemistry. IMHO Kouros is a summer fragrance! Just one spray on your chest and voila! The more sweaty you get the better! I know it sounds weird but just try it! Thats the reason we even had a flanker called "Body Kouros".
You know, the suggestion to wear in on the chest under the shirt seems to be the go to trick for all vintage power houses during the summer (Paul Sebastian, Obsession, Lagerfeld...) they all seem to suddenly become summer fragrance as long as they're allowed to safely develop under the shirt during the heat.
This scent has a strong bond to me. Not because i'm a big fan, even though I do appreciate the scent. But because it was released the year I was born (1981). It was the only fragrance my Dad owned and he very rarely used it as I remember being a kid and certainly never used it from the 90's onward. Also, bizarrely, this was the fragrance my 1st girlfriend wore, when we dated for a year in '97. When my father passed away in 2022, he still had that same, almost full, 1981 bottle of Kouros and I took it as a keepsake. I never cried from news if his passing, to his funeral, but when I took a moment, then sprayed it, it hit me hard. He wouldve been the last person to have sprayed it and most likely when I was still a child.
My first fragrances were Curve, Cool Water, and Legend…just a different era, those who wore Kouros, Joop, and Quorum are just a different cut of the jibe.
The first time i smelled Kouros was when i was 18 in the department store and thought WTH? This smells like Railroad. It remembered me of traveling on a 24h Train ride for vacation in the Summer to the Home country of my parents, when i was a little kid. So it brought back memories, but i thought it’s more of an art fragrance instead of a wearable item. The flowing time i went to the same department store, i saw a couple, must have been in their late 20‘s early 30‘s, smelling kouros. The Man was saying it smells like a toilet rim block and didn’t liked it at all but the woman said: „Yes, but it has something to it“ and kept smelling it👀🤷🏻♂️ That confused the crap out of me at the time, but also showed me that taste can be very different…
Well, I have a reformulation and I feel like it HAD TO be reformulated. I have a new bottle made in 2023, and nowadays it STILL has a very strong musk opening and if applied on skin, within three minutes the civet smell comes out and clocks you on the nose. Then it tames itself within fifteen minutes and becomes a very heavy white floral, with lavender and extreme musk, snd the civet rounds it out. I absolutely love musk, but In it's current formula I find it barely wearable. I can't imagine any fragrance more animalic than this in this century. Seriously, this reminds me of when I shower with a strong bar soap and immediately go sweat for a few hours and then cool down dry in the shade: musky sweat mixing heavily with florals from the bar soap. Enjoying this feels wrong, and perverse like a scat fetish. It's also a chimera of sorts. Sometimes it smells very barbershop and clean. Other times the civet comes out aggressive and nearly gag worthy. Sometimes it smells like a perfume on an old lady that smokes Virginia slim. Then unfortunately, it sometimes gives a new diaper smell (not long mind you, it's immediately replaced by florals, musk and leather). I think this deserves another reformulation. I think it needs a sweeter base, and it needs the cinnamon turned up a tad. It's not a horrible cologne, but for the current year it's "incomplete" and requires changes to be competitive. 8/10 fragrance Most of that is novelty, uniqueness, complexity and nostalgia
I got to test Kouros for the first time at an Airport earlier this year. and my intial reaction was dissapointment lol, just because theres alot of stigma around it. so i was expecting something very polarizing and explosive, but all i got was a old school floral heavy scent with some oak moss and musk, no skank or anything like that. but this was the newest formulation, so cant really comment on the older ones.
Back in the 88 my mate had a bottle. I hated it with a vengeance. Too much Civet and that pissy smell for me. Absolute powerhouse of a frag though. Lasted days...I stuck with my Drakkar Noir...😂
It actually looks like a newer formulation because of the white shoulders. But if anyone wants to give the scent a go, get Milton Lloyd's The Man Silver for way cheaper. That's what I did. And wait till the carnation and honey kick in. Woooo mama. 👌😂
@@AGentlemansJourney77 Challenge is the mother of improvement! Rochas Femme was too much for me too....and now I've got a backup bottle. 🤪 At the very least, it breaks the boredom. 😄
When I wear this mountains move. I don’t get “suite and tie” for this though like you mentioned. T shirt and sweats or jeans is actually more so the vibe of it now. I’m glad I was introduced to this wonderful aroma
Always remember everyone smoked back then too. And they smoked everywhere. And their sense of taste (and thus smell) was likely at least slightly impaired from the act of smoking. So frags HAD to pack enough power to overcome all that.
My very first compliment on my smell was wearing kouros as a teenager at one of my first jobs. A coworker walked behind me and told me I smelled good. I always liked it, but I haven't used it in almost 30 years because theres so much hate for it. i dont get it
@@AGentlemansJourney77 Hope you make a review of Clive Christian 1872 Masculine. I really love this cologne as well as my other favorite one is Armani Code EDT Original version. Thank you sir.
Chad, I never liked Kouros by Yves Saint Laurent. It was released in 1981, the same year Antaeus was released by Chanel & Cartier released Santos. I never liked Antaeus either. I did love Santos and I still wear it. It is the best & classiest fragrance of the 3 big releases in 1981.
Dudes. Before 2020 I only had 5 frags in my entire life. This was one of them. My folks got me this for Christmas when I was a teenager in high school! I don’t know what they were thinking. Needless to say I wore it ONCE. And never again. I don’t even know what happened to it. But I was turned off to fragrance many years after that A-bomb.
LMAO that got me laughing. I was also thinking about you when I went for my morning walk. Got to stay as healthy as possible in our line of work. I've lost 25 pounds in the past few months just by walking and changing up the diet but my day was so shitty yesterday that I said "screw it" and had some chips and chocolate.
@@AGentlemansJourney77 I don’t blame you for that. After working outside today I’m craving Mike and Ike like it’s a discontinued fragrance! I have a mile of loop trail behind the house in the woods so that’s where I do my walking. It’s a perfect fall day in the high 60’s here. Have a great day Chad! Thanks for the video. Brought back memories for sure. Lol.
this is typical for 70ies '80s classic scents, there are a ton of different notes and many are right in your face, like a punch. I remember KL (Lagerfeld). The quality back then was stunning compared to nowadays, even drugstore scents were charming. Denim Moschus (Musk in English I assume) (not listed on Fragrantica, not the original from the early 80ies) was such an incredible drugstore scent. beautiful. another one would be Care (for men) by Margareth Astor. an amazing scent. The IFRA ruined most of the gems.
Karl Lagerfeld still packs a punch. I got mine in late July and I first though the Oud was top high, but I the juice in the atomizer stem was just oxidized because two weeks later it opened with a beautiful and bright dry orange complete with a spring leaf smell and aldehydes, like air passing through a valley on the first day of spring. Purely majestic. KL >>>>> Kourus
What a joke. It's a summer frag. See the marketing. Loves the sweat. Freshest frag on the market. White t-shirt frag. That other guy is wrong on everything he says about this frag. And if he's even going to comment on this, it should be the vintage (pre-Sanofi).
@@AGentlemansJourney77 It feels like a review based on the way everyone else reviews this frag... "Not a summer frag" "Not a t-shirt frag" "Stinker" C'mon, we can do better than that
@@AGentlemansJourney77 You can't detect tone on the webs. I was having a tad bit of a go at that guy for getting it wrong, but it doesn't matter at the end of the day. My bad. I hope he revists this one in its vintage form. And have a look for those Summer ads.
This is still worn by leadership and zaddy guys with a lot of confidence over 40. My first boss, who was 70 at the time and a multi-millionaire, wore Kouros and continued until his death at 87. Super smart, charming, impeccably dressed. He had a fleet of cars which included a vintage Lamborghini. His beautiful bombshell wife was 40 years his junior. No shade but not meant for today’s “candy canes.”
Thankyou for confirming my assumption that this fragrance is for creepy old wealthy boomers..... I'm sure Monica Lewinsky and Ghislaine Maxwell are as nostalgic for it as you are.....😂
Kouros is not outdated, it is far ahead of its time, and even the one we live in now. Remember these words!
No thanks, not for me but thanks for stopping by.
My signature scent back in the 80's and believe it or not it was a lady killer back then. It kills me that those young bucks say Aventus is King. Not even close it's King Kouros! Appreciate the review.
thanks for watching. Aventus is extremely overhyped
Great review and I enjoyed it andI like this fragrance and I give it a 9 out of 10 in my opinion and have a blessed day
Just wore it yesterday and it's A classic masterpiece!
For some it most certainly would be. I can appreciate this fragrance for what it is though.
You must try Kouros on the skin as it reacts differently to each body's chemistry. IMHO Kouros is a summer fragrance! Just one spray on your chest and voila! The more sweaty you get the better! I know it sounds weird but just try it! Thats the reason we even had a flanker called "Body Kouros".
You know, the suggestion to wear in on the chest under the shirt seems to be the go to trick for all vintage power houses during the summer (Paul Sebastian, Obsession, Lagerfeld...) they all seem to suddenly become summer fragrance as long as they're allowed to safely develop under the shirt during the heat.
@@Deadlyaztec27 Exactly! The problem with these fragrances is that people smell them on the strip. "Develop" was an excellent word
This scent has a strong bond to me. Not because i'm a big fan, even though I do appreciate the scent. But because it was released the year I was born (1981). It was the only fragrance my Dad owned and he very rarely used it as I remember being a kid and certainly never used it from the 90's onward. Also, bizarrely, this was the fragrance my 1st girlfriend wore, when we dated for a year in '97. When my father passed away in 2022, he still had that same, almost full, 1981 bottle of Kouros and I took it as a keepsake. I never cried from news if his passing, to his funeral, but when I took a moment, then sprayed it, it hit me hard. He wouldve been the last person to have sprayed it and most likely when I was still a child.
My first fragrances were Curve, Cool Water, and Legend…just a different era, those who wore Kouros, Joop, and Quorum are just a different cut of the jibe.
Back to the 80's!! This was my jam back in the early/mid 80's. Alpha Maleness Vibe😂😂
The first time i smelled Kouros was when i was 18 in the department store and thought WTH? This smells like Railroad. It remembered me of traveling on a 24h Train ride for vacation in the Summer to the Home country of my parents, when i was a little kid. So it brought back memories, but i thought it’s more of an art fragrance instead of a wearable item. The flowing time i went to the same department store, i saw a couple, must have been in their late 20‘s early 30‘s, smelling kouros. The Man was saying it smells like a toilet rim block and didn’t liked it at all but the woman said: „Yes, but it has something to it“ and kept smelling it👀🤷🏻♂️ That confused the crap out of me at the time, but also showed me that taste can be very different…
Beautiful Fragrance, masculine powerhouse that is amazingly blended.
Well, I have a reformulation and I feel like it HAD TO be reformulated. I have a new bottle made in 2023, and nowadays it STILL has a very strong musk opening and if applied on skin, within three minutes the civet smell comes out and clocks you on the nose. Then it tames itself within fifteen minutes and becomes a very heavy white floral, with lavender and extreme musk, snd the civet rounds it out. I absolutely love musk, but In it's current formula I find it barely wearable. I can't imagine any fragrance more animalic than this in this century. Seriously, this reminds me of when I shower with a strong bar soap and immediately go sweat for a few hours and then cool down dry in the shade: musky sweat mixing heavily with florals from the bar soap. Enjoying this feels wrong, and perverse like a scat fetish.
It's also a chimera of sorts. Sometimes it smells very barbershop and clean. Other times the civet comes out aggressive and nearly gag worthy. Sometimes it smells like a perfume on an old lady that smokes Virginia slim.
Then unfortunately, it sometimes gives a new diaper smell (not long mind you, it's immediately replaced by florals, musk and leather).
I think this deserves another reformulation. I think it needs a sweeter base, and it needs the cinnamon turned up a tad.
It's not a horrible cologne, but for the current year it's "incomplete" and requires changes to be competitive.
8/10 fragrance
Most of that is novelty, uniqueness, complexity and nostalgia
I got to test Kouros for the first time at an Airport earlier this year. and my intial reaction was dissapointment lol, just because theres alot of stigma around it. so i was expecting something very polarizing and explosive, but all i got was a old school floral heavy scent with some oak moss and musk, no skank or anything like that. but this was the newest formulation, so cant really comment on the older ones.
In sure the new formulation is different.
A most in any collection. I’m more fan of the blue (tonic) version. ❤️
Back in the 88 my mate had a bottle. I hated it with a vengeance. Too much Civet and that pissy smell for me. Absolute powerhouse of a frag though. Lasted days...I stuck with my Drakkar Noir...😂
It is for sure an acquired taste. It ain't for me neither.
Great review. Nice job you two!
Masterpiece
U guys should do a review of one man show!! That’s a BEAST
It actually looks like a newer formulation because of the white shoulders. But if anyone wants to give the scent a go, get Milton Lloyd's The Man Silver for way cheaper. That's what I did. And wait till the carnation and honey kick in. Woooo mama. 👌😂
I think I'll pass 😂
@@AGentlemansJourney77 Challenge is the mother of improvement! Rochas Femme was too much for me too....and now I've got a backup bottle. 🤪 At the very least, it breaks the boredom. 😄
When I wear this mountains move. I don’t get “suite and tie” for this though like you mentioned. T shirt and sweats or jeans is actually more so the vibe of it now. I’m glad I was introduced to this wonderful aroma
Thanks for sharing and for watching, Kendall.
Kouros: 1 spray on the chest and done. Not suitable for enclosed spaces. Don't wear it if it's hot. Otherwise, beautiful fragrance.
Always remember everyone smoked back then too. And they smoked everywhere. And their sense of taste (and thus smell) was likely at least slightly impaired from the act of smoking. So frags HAD to pack enough power to overcome all that.
I can see that.
I still have not smelles this, but want to get a sample of the original vintage version. It is as you say a very polarizing fragrance.
You'll be surprised by this one.
WHAT are "aldehydes" and what do they smell like? 🤔
Curious to see what you think about Chanel Egoiste 🤔
I can see if Rush has that one.
I have it too …the bottle only 😂i think it have 15-20 byears
My very first compliment on my smell was wearing kouros as a teenager at one of my first jobs. A coworker walked behind me and told me I smelled good. I always liked it, but I haven't used it in almost 30 years because theres so much hate for it. i dont get it
At the end of the day, wear what you like and it shouldn't matter to others.
I bought a bottle of the 2017 batch a few months ago. Until now I still can't get over it. Really sucks, bullshit but still respect it :))
I knew it was going to be reformulated. Crazy how different it smells when they do that.
@@AGentlemansJourney77 Hope you make a review of Clive Christian 1872 Masculine. I really love this cologne as well as my other favorite one is Armani Code EDT Original version. Thank you sir.
Awesome fragrance.
Chad, I never liked Kouros by Yves Saint Laurent. It was released in 1981, the same year Antaeus was released by Chanel & Cartier released Santos. I never liked Antaeus either. I did love Santos and I still wear it. It is the best & classiest fragrance of the 3 big releases in 1981.
I'll have to ask Rush if he has Santos. I doubt he does though.
I didnt like this one either but I like Furyo by Bogart which has similar vibes and not too animalic
An eighties powerhouse. I still have a bottle half full. I might get fired from work if I wore this scent.
Dudes. Before 2020 I only had 5 frags in my entire life. This was one of them. My folks got me this for Christmas when I was a teenager in high school! I don’t know what they were thinking. Needless to say I wore it ONCE. And never again. I don’t even know what happened to it. But I was turned off to fragrance many years after that A-bomb.
LMAO that got me laughing. I was also thinking about you when I went for my morning walk. Got to stay as healthy as possible in our line of work. I've lost 25 pounds in the past few months just by walking and changing up the diet but my day was so shitty yesterday that I said "screw it" and had some chips and chocolate.
@@AGentlemansJourney77 I don’t blame you for that. After working outside today I’m craving Mike and Ike like it’s a discontinued fragrance! I have a mile of loop trail behind the house in the woods so that’s where I do my walking. It’s a perfect fall day in the high 60’s here. Have a great day Chad! Thanks for the video. Brought back memories for sure. Lol.
this is typical for 70ies '80s classic scents, there are a ton of different notes and many are right in your face, like a punch. I remember KL (Lagerfeld). The quality back then was stunning compared to nowadays, even drugstore scents were charming. Denim Moschus (Musk in English I assume) (not listed on Fragrantica, not the original from the early 80ies) was such an incredible drugstore scent. beautiful. another one would be Care (for men) by Margareth Astor. an amazing scent. The IFRA ruined most of the gems.
Karl Lagerfeld still packs a punch. I got mine in late July and I first though the Oud was top high, but I the juice in the atomizer stem was just oxidized because two weeks later it opened with a beautiful and bright dry orange complete with a spring leaf smell and aldehydes, like air passing through a valley on the first day of spring. Purely majestic.
KL >>>>> Kourus
Just Love It!!!!!!
Thanks for stopping by.
Weird how this thing suddenly turns soapy in the drydown.. its like shampooing a skunk without bathing it.
You don't choose to wear Kouros, Kouros chooses to wear you.
I like that comment. Very cool way to look at it.
It was butchered by reformulation. Used to love it in the 80s. Now I don't.
Great review I busted out laughing at the 1:51 mark 😂
Thanks for watching and I'm glad you got a laugh from that.
If Kouros were a person it would be John Candy in Planes Trains and Automobiles.
That bottle is the modern version. The vintage had silver shoulders, not white. The vintage version is much more animalic.
Then I don't know if I wish to sniff it 😬
Great fragrance that...close sniff is not a good idea..the magic happens in the air.
Good to know! And thanks for watching 🙏
Works a ton better on skin
Not on my skin it doesn't. That's why I wasn't putting it on.
🤯🤯🤯
What a joke. It's a summer frag. See the marketing. Loves the sweat. Freshest frag on the market. White t-shirt frag. That other guy is wrong on everything he says about this frag. And if he's even going to comment on this, it should be the vintage (pre-Sanofi).
Someone is overly passionate...
@@AGentlemansJourney77 It feels like a review based on the way everyone else reviews this frag...
"Not a summer frag"
"Not a t-shirt frag"
"Stinker"
C'mon, we can do better than that
Its just a fragrance, this stuff ain't going to change the world and make it a better place.
@@AGentlemansJourney77 You can't detect tone on the webs. I was having a tad bit of a go at that guy for getting it wrong, but it doesn't matter at the end of the day. My bad. I hope he revists this one in its vintage form. And have a look for those Summer ads.
@kazman_6899 kinda hard on the web I will.agree with you. I appreciate your time though so thank you.
Old school fragrance and it's okay. 5/10
The urinal cake fragrance! 🤣 good to see both your reactions on this one.
It's definitely not for me.
Cool water smells like a urinal cake to me
@@The_Mavs_Are_Bums lol
@@The_Mavs_Are_Bums this one , especially the original formulation smells like dog/cat piss with wet dog...........
This is still worn by leadership and zaddy guys with a lot of confidence over 40. My first boss, who was 70 at the time and a multi-millionaire, wore Kouros and continued until his death at 87. Super smart, charming, impeccably dressed. He had a fleet of cars which included a vintage Lamborghini. His beautiful bombshell wife was 40 years his junior. No shade but not meant for today’s “candy canes.”
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Thankyou for confirming my assumption that this fragrance is for creepy old wealthy boomers..... I'm sure Monica Lewinsky and Ghislaine Maxwell are as nostalgic for it as you are.....😂
Reminds me of a gas station dirty urinal. 😮😅
Koruos reeks
It sucks.
Its not for everyone that's for sure and I'm part of that crowd.