Kouros by Yves Saint Laurent is an aromatic and fougere perfume for men‎.‎ Kouros was launched in 1981‎.‎ The beak behind this fragrance is Pierre Bourdon‎.‎ Kouros contains top notes of aldehydes‎,‎ artemisia‎,‎ coriander‎,‎ clary sage and bergamot‎,‎ these flow into the middle notes of carnation‎,‎ patchouli‎,‎ cinnamon‎,‎ orris root‎,‎ jasmine‎,‎ vetiver and geranium which all flow into the foot notes of honey‎,‎ leather‎,‎ tonka bean‎,‎ amber‎,‎ musk‎,‎ civet‎,‎ oak moss and vanilla‎.‎ Yves Saint Laurent Kouros is a fragrance for men that has been suggested to be worn during the day‎,‎ but can also make a pleasant evening fragrance‎.‎ Laurent's career in fashion began at the tender age of 17‎,‎ when he served as an assistant to Christian Dior‎.‎ With Dior's death four years later‎,‎ Laurent was named head of the house of Dior at just 21 years of age‎.‎ Still a young man when the Algerian War of Freedom broke out‎,‎ Laurent was drafted into the army in 1960 and lost his position at Dior‎.‎ Military service and despair over the loss of his design position resulted in a hospital stay‎.‎ After a brief period of recuperation‎,‎ Laurent started his own fashion company and went on to become one of the most influential fashion designers of the 1960s and 1970s‎.‎ Fashion house Yves Saint Laurent is the French style house founded by Yves Henri Donat Mathieu‎-Saint‎-Laurent‎.‎ The house and designer are often abbreviated as YSL‎.‎Yves Saint Laurent has over one hundred perfumes in their fragrance collection‎.‎ The earliest edition was created in 1964 and the latest is from 2012‎.‎ Yves Saint Laurent fragrances were made in collaboration with perfumers Ralf Schweiger‎,‎ Cecile Matton‎,‎ Honorine Blanc‎,‎ Alberto Morillas‎,‎ Annick Menardo‎,‎ Jacques Cavallier‎,‎ Olivier Cresp‎,‎ Jean‎-Claude Ellena‎,‎ Jean‎-Francois Latty‎,‎ Pierre Bourdon‎,‎ Anne Flipo‎,‎ Pierre Wargnye‎,‎ Dominique Ropion‎,‎ Olivier Polge‎,‎ Carlos Benaim‎,‎ Jean Amic‎,‎ Jean‎-Louis Sieuzac‎,‎ Sophia Grojsman‎,‎ Laurent Bruyere‎,‎ Sophie Labbe‎,‎ Daniela Roche‎-Andrier and Karine Dubreuil‎.‎