Christmas ’94 was a bumper year for me in the receiving of kouros stakes. I received 4 100ml bottles form friends and family (along with the bottle I bought myself as the aforementioned friends and family usually bought me socks,ties and sweaters).
http://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Yves-Saint-Laurent/Kouros-735.html
Kouros is a divisive fragrance but many love it and its called King Kouros for a reason. Its one of the few fragrances, that is brazen in its masculinity and reeks of power and sensuality. Its dirtiness from the civet, is what makes it stand out in sea of boring johnny aquatic fragrances.
http://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Yves-Saint-Laurent/Kouros-735.html
The closest parallel here is to the Sounion kouros (NAMA 2720) of the late 7th century/early 6th century, which also displays 14 braids, as does the New York kouros (NY Met. 32.11.1). However, the Getty kouros’s hair exhibits a rigidity, very unlike the Sounion Group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_kouros
for beautiful and good or noble. Writing in the mid 500s B.C., the Greek poet. summed this idea up as What is beautiful is loved, and what is not is unloved.. In a society that emphasized youth and male beauty, the artistic manifestation of this world view was the kouros. Indeed, when the poet.
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/10930/unknown-maker-kouros-greek-about-530-bc-or-modern-forgery/
Provenance [edit]. The kouros first appeared on the art market in 1983 when the Basel dealer Gianfranco Becchina offered the work to the Getty's curator of antiquities, Jiri Frel. Frel deposited the sculpture (then in seven pieces) at Malibu along with a number of documents purporting to attest to the statue’s authenticity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_kouros
A kouros (Ancient Greek: κοῦρος, plural kouroi) is the modern term given to free-standing ancient Greek sculptures which first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and represent nude male youths. In Ancient Greek kouros means youth, boy, especially of noble rank.. The term kouros, was first proposed for what were previously thought to be depictions of Apollo by V. I. Leonardos in 1895 in relation to the youth from Keratea, and adopted by Henri Lechat as a generic term for the standing male figure in 1904.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kouros
Kouros is a league on its own, a rarity. Kouros is art. I would go as far and say that in case you want to wear art but find it difficult to carry a fake Mona Lisa around your neck, wear Kouros. However beware as this fragrance is only for the charismatic and self-assured.
http://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Yves-Saint-Laurent/Kouros-735.html
Kouros is not my favorite fragrance but I am appalled by some of the venomous reviews here. If you're offended by fragrances that diverge from the generic scent of your shampoo, then, not only Kouros, but a large proportion of the stellar products of the perfumer's art, are not for you. Stick with sporty deodorant.
http://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Yves-Saint-Laurent/Kouros-735.html
The Getty kouros is an over-life-sized statue in the form of a late archaic Greek kouros. The dolomitic marble sculpture was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California in 1985 for nine million dollars and first exhibited there in October 1986.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_kouros
C. 520–485 BC: the last stage in the development of the kouros type is the period in which the Greek sculptor attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used it to create a harmonious, proportionate whole. The features that now become expressed are as follows. The lachrymal caruncle is sometimes indicated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kouros
what is kouros
A kouros is the modern term given to free standing ancient Greek sculptures which first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and represent nude male youths. A kouros is the modern term given to free-standing ancient Greek sculptures which first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and represent nude male youths.