Kouros Eau de Toilette Tonique 2011
A 2011 limited summer Kouros that swaps the legendary 1981 powerhouse's animalic florals for citrus and a sea-water heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Citrus70
- Fresh55
- Marine55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Sea Notes
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readA 2011 limited summer Kouros that swaps the legendary 1981 powerhouse's animalic florals for citrus and a sea-water heart. Bergamot and Amalfi lemon open clean and crisp; the marine note in the heart functions more as a transition than a focus, dissolving the citruses into the resin base.
Incense, patchouli and frankincense in the base preserve a thread of the original Kouros DNA, but at a much quieter volume. The point of the Tonique flanker is not to be Kouros — it's to give the brand a wearable warm-weather masculine in the same packaging family. Light, Mediterranean, almost forgettable next to the parent, but well-tuned for what it is.
Scent twins
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