Kouros Tattoo Edition (2007)
by Yves Saint Laurent

I didn't smell the original Kouros but as I know, It's very strong and you can't wear it easily on the public!
So watered down version is my choice!
Start with a very lovely scent of citrus and floral.
The citrus doesn’t dominate in the opening and there is a good balance between citrus and floral scent. I like the opening.
The dry down is stronger floral scent and that's all I get to the end.
Both longevity and projection are average and there is nothing special in this parts.
I get 4-5h out of this and it's Ok for the price.

7th November, 2011.

Following on from the original Kouros & Kouros Cologne Sport, this is now the 3rd variation I have tried.

It starts out sweeter and more floral than the original, but like the Cologne Sport variation, it doesn't stray too far from the original's composition in drydown.

Although there is no civet listed in the notes above, I swear that I can detect the original civet note in the drydown of this Tattoo version. Maybe just a slight hint of incense is there to distinguish this one from the rest.

Like Cologne Sport, Tattoo is nowhere near as powerful as the original, so it should be easier to wear out in public. This will definitely please fans of the original.

2nd July, 2011.

I find this to be the one version of Kouros that smells like Kouros and yet is not difficult for me to wear with confidence.

Original Kouros can remind some of pee, Kouros Cologne Sport can remind some of poo (manure specifically), but this is the one that is "just right". It has the unmistakeable clovey, incensey, patchouli/fresh laundry Kouros signature. The animalic notes are dialed back quite a bit. The added fresh notes here are rather full bodied and fleshy-- not like the wan, screechiness of many modern clean scents.

This one is very modern, yet still edgy with its retro overtones. It has all the best parts of Kouros, while being easier to wear.

Put Kouros on a shelf; take the white bottle down occasionally to sniff and admire-- but this is the one to wear.

20th August, 2010.

Okay, … a little bit similar to King Kouros, but I don’t get a lot of resemblance, and I don’t find it near as potent. On my skin the calone in the heart accord comes through so strongly that it really disrupts any clear association with the original Kouros. I find this quite marine / floral and I don’t get the perfumy smell that I get after the opening of Kouros. All that said, I like what I smell here. The citrus notes present themselves competently in the opening, and I really enjoy the marine feeling of the calone but I can feel it getting into my brain a little and suggesting a headache; if the potential for headache doesn’t get any worse than it has so far, the headache thing will not be a problem. The only floral I smell in the middle, jasmine, is used beautifully in conjunction with the calone – it forms a very fresh heart accord that holds for an extraordinarily long time. The dry down comes through a little softly with cedar. I don’t get any incense or musk… I get a simple, straightforward cedar with the last remnants of calone coming through. The dry down performs a bit weakly on my skin. I enjoy Kouros Tattoo and see it as another excellent alternative in an excellent line…

10th October, 2008.

Love this take on Kouros. I was lucky enough for someone to decant a small sample for me.

Tattoo does feel slightly weaker than its parent with some pepper added but its weakness is only slight. We're talking about Kouros here, a potent fragrance as it is! Good stuff.

27th May, 2008.

If you can find this, buy it! This is the king's grandson modernized yet unmistakeably Kouros. I was puzzled becuase I thought it was the same scent in a collector's bottle...but it is not.
Tatto edition is a 'tonique', a concentration that fits somewhere between EDT and apres-rasage. For me (and for a fragrance of this strength and magnitude) the tonique is THE BEST concentration. It packs enough punch to take you back 26 years in time, yet it is gentler to the nose and loves you instantly rather than run you off like the original does before it shows you love.
If you couldn't stand the original's in-your-face attitude, and the fraicheur is too weak, then THIS IS IT!
10 THUMBS UP!

PS: this tattoo edition comes with 2 temporary tattoos. There is a new summer version that is the same 'tonique' fragrance but no tattoo.

22nd December, 2007. (Last Edited: 12nd April, 2008.)