Top Notes 
Aldehydes
Clary sage
Bergamot
Coriander
Tarragon
Heart Notes 
Carnation
Geranium
Jasmine
Orris root
Patchouli
Vetiver
Cinnamon
Base Notes 
Civet
Musk
Oakmoss
Amber
Frankincense
Honey
Leather
Tonka bean
Vanilla
03/22/2025
Rogaux
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Cultural history in your face!
As I clicked through the various Kouros variants to find the version I had in Kouros After Shave Lotion, I couldn't help but be amazed at how often members of this community seem to visit train station toilets.
I must confess that, off the top of my head, I can't remember any situation in which I would have been bold enough to voluntarily embark on this olfactory (and sociological) ordeal.
However, I'm pretty sure that Kouros After Shave Lotion doesn't smell like a free-to-use train station toilet in 2025.
I can't even subscribe to the Kloreinger association, which also comes to mind with some citrusy notes.
Kouros may not be a beautiful, certainly not a gentle fragrance DNA, but it is definitely a perfume fragrance and, my gosh, an unmistakable statement.
I smell a 40-year-old aftershave here that would probably be sold as an EdP Extrait today.
An aftershave with an animalic undertone, whose silage fills houses, whose over-the-top fruit and flower combination is almost painful.
There is a violence in this fragrance that makes the idea of a man rubbing two or three squirts of it between his hands in the morning in 1984 and then patting his freshly shaved face with this behemoth seem ridiculous.
The fact that it MUST have been like that shows me how long ago the 80s really were.
Only a time when people chain-smoked on trains, in offices, restaurants and lecture halls, and when cross-border hypermasculinity was the order of the day, could produce such a natural force of scent.
Personally, I wouldn't want to wear Kouros After Shave Lotion in public, but as a cultural-historical document of the times and for nostalgic reasons, I can warmly recommend testing a vintage version of one of the Kounos offshoots.
I must confess that, off the top of my head, I can't remember any situation in which I would have been bold enough to voluntarily embark on this olfactory (and sociological) ordeal.
However, I'm pretty sure that Kouros After Shave Lotion doesn't smell like a free-to-use train station toilet in 2025.
I can't even subscribe to the Kloreinger association, which also comes to mind with some citrusy notes.
Kouros may not be a beautiful, certainly not a gentle fragrance DNA, but it is definitely a perfume fragrance and, my gosh, an unmistakable statement.
I smell a 40-year-old aftershave here that would probably be sold as an EdP Extrait today.
An aftershave with an animalic undertone, whose silage fills houses, whose over-the-top fruit and flower combination is almost painful.
There is a violence in this fragrance that makes the idea of a man rubbing two or three squirts of it between his hands in the morning in 1984 and then patting his freshly shaved face with this behemoth seem ridiculous.
The fact that it MUST have been like that shows me how long ago the 80s really were.
Only a time when people chain-smoked on trains, in offices, restaurants and lecture halls, and when cross-border hypermasculinity was the order of the day, could produce such a natural force of scent.
Personally, I wouldn't want to wear Kouros After Shave Lotion in public, but as a cultural-historical document of the times and for nostalgic reasons, I can warmly recommend testing a vintage version of one of the Kounos offshoots.
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