Yves Saint Laurent
Body Kouros
Oriental Woody · 2000 · Pierre Bourdon
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Good
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Romantic/Evening
- Typical season
- Winter
These describe how the fragrance is generally reported to behave. Skin chemistry, weather and how much you apply all change it, so your own experience may differ.
Reviewed profile
Sharp eucalyptus and clary sage give way to incense, cedar and benzoin for a dry, smoky warmth. Bracing on top, resinous below. Austere and cold-weather leaning.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Dry Warmth
Warm enough to be felt. Dry enough to mean it.
There is warmth here but nothing soft about it. It arrives without apology and stays without asking. Substance over comfort, every time.
How Body Kouros smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Body Kouros reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Body Kouros reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 90th percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Body Kouros sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 39th percentile for projection across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Body Kouros is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 29th percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Body Kouros carries body without weight, present without filling a room. That is 57th percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Body Kouros keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 14th percentile for sweetness across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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