Kouros 1981 Eau de Toilette

Gumschel
17.04.2024 - 08:51 AM
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7.5
Bottle
10
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent

A toilet that simply smells good...

I had my first contact with Kouros sometime in the mid-80s, when I was still a young boy.

In the magazines at that time, there were perfumed, stick-on peel-off strips placed under the advertisements for the advertised fragrances. These strips revealed their olfactory secret as soon as they were torn from the page.
I loved these things and so I eagerly got to grips with the Kouros. I liked it immediately. Spicy, strong, fresh.
My father happened to be there and I held the strip under his nose.

What can I say. My father, a die-hard perfume fanatic whose comment on every perfume is the same: 'Stinks! So enthusiastic that he ordered a colleague to bring a bottle of it back from the city.

It was the aftershave version.
I can still remember my father getting quite a few compliments when he put it on, only on special occasions of course.

As a youngster, I was not allowed to use the expensive stuff. Which, of course, I did from time to time and was always promptly betrayed by the scent. This didn't happen very often, though, because it felt somehow inappropriate for me, too grown-up.

Due to the all too sporadic, sparing use over the years, the fine juice eventually turned into Maggi and ended up in the bin.
It remained firmly anchored in my memory.

In my mid-20s, I treated myself to 1 or 2 bottles of EdT. I loved it as much as ever and I had grown up in the meantime.
That was in the early/mid-2000s. I only got positive reactions to it.

It plays with the contrasts of fresh/clean and spicy/animal and has the unfathomable magic that turns a perfume into an icon.

He plays the game with the dose that makes the poison well and with style.
He is not a (somewhat boring?) clean man. This role was later taken on by Cool Water, for example. Also a classic.

Everyone knows odors that smell good or bad depending on their concentration. The small border area is then the hotspot. This is also what makes animalic so appealing.

I never thought of Kouros as a station toilet. I first read about it much later on Parfumo.

OK. This train station toilet smells very appealing
And I can understand the association. But what the heck, in reality Kouros just smells good!

I still have plenty in an original 90s bottle. The current one is also good.
And I'll always have Kouros, gods willing...

Test obligation!
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