Yves Saint Laurent
Kouros
Aromatic Fougere · 1981 · Pierre Bourdon
Longevity
Good
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Winter
A dense, animalic fougere where honeyed leather, civet and musk press against clary sage, oakmoss and a full floral heart. Powerful and unapologetic, it fills a room with old-school bravado. Bold and polarizing by design.
Taste Profile
The Natural
The Easy Choice
Always works, always easy.
The one to reach for in a hurry. It fits the moment because it always does. Don't think, just go for it.
See your own Taste Map →How Kouros smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Kouros carries across a room and announces itself, and is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure.
Kouros sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 63rd percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Kouros carries across a room and announces itself. That is among the highest in the catalogue for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Kouros is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 40th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Kouros sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.
Kouros carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 62nd percentile for sweetness across 5,322 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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