So I've come up with a theory. I grew up in Southern California, so this is probably for US history only.
Back when I was a young'un in the 70s and early 80s, I remember the bracing camphoraceous smell of the urinal pucks in public bathrooms. After all, my face was probably only a couple feet from the little blue rounds. They had a very sharp, strong aromatic character that I always enjoyed, not the least because it so effectively masked the urine and other odors. Bathroom cleaners often had a sharp citrus or coniferous clean smell.
I remember well my disappointment as public bathrooms began smelling sickly sweet in the mid-1980s. This floral-incense stuff didn't mask the waste smells as well to me; rather they mixed with it, creating a cloying miasma totally at odds with how a men's bathroom should smell (in my opinion at the time).
Fast forward to 2011. I take the Kouros vial out of the package. I had to sample it because of all the weird reviews. And boom, there it is: a slightly deeper more sophisticated version of the bathroom deodorizers that have been common for 25 years, but NOT before that.
My theory is that aromachemical manufacturers noticed that Kouros had a definite human waste smell down at the bottom under the flowers and incense and that it sold well. So they decided to steal a strategy from YSL's playbook and use the same approach for their bathroom products, simply adding the sweet notes that would mix with live waste smells naturally in the bathroom to create a cheaper, Kouros-esque effect.
Do you believe it's possible? Did Kouros singlehandedly ruin my bracing camphoraceous urinal pucks?
Back when I was a young'un in the 70s and early 80s, I remember the bracing camphoraceous smell of the urinal pucks in public bathrooms. After all, my face was probably only a couple feet from the little blue rounds. They had a very sharp, strong aromatic character that I always enjoyed, not the least because it so effectively masked the urine and other odors. Bathroom cleaners often had a sharp citrus or coniferous clean smell.
I remember well my disappointment as public bathrooms began smelling sickly sweet in the mid-1980s. This floral-incense stuff didn't mask the waste smells as well to me; rather they mixed with it, creating a cloying miasma totally at odds with how a men's bathroom should smell (in my opinion at the time).
Fast forward to 2011. I take the Kouros vial out of the package. I had to sample it because of all the weird reviews. And boom, there it is: a slightly deeper more sophisticated version of the bathroom deodorizers that have been common for 25 years, but NOT before that.
My theory is that aromachemical manufacturers noticed that Kouros had a definite human waste smell down at the bottom under the flowers and incense and that it sold well. So they decided to steal a strategy from YSL's playbook and use the same approach for their bathroom products, simply adding the sweet notes that would mix with live waste smells naturally in the bathroom to create a cheaper, Kouros-esque effect.
Do you believe it's possible? Did Kouros singlehandedly ruin my bracing camphoraceous urinal pucks?
