Jun 11, 2026 · 57 min · 11 segments
In this episode we’re catching up with the joyous beauty and fragrance journalist and broadcaster, Alice du Parcq, for part TWO of her mega-list of fabulous fragrances. (If you haven’t already, do go…
Alice du ParcqGuest
Suzy NightingaleHost
Nicola BonnHost
Or did I do a video about it on Instagram? And this is on my list as a fragrance that I wear almost as a sort of shield, because it's so strong, it's so, I don't know, naughty, I think.
It's just mega, and it's this big powder puff of crazy, and it's Kouros by Yves Saint Laurent.
And I absolutely love it because it just smells like the most expensive wild baby powder.
Not just a sort of t- a little tap of powder, but the whole pot you just spilled, and you rolled yourself into it, and you are just surrounded by this kind of a, almost like a kind of hazy cloud of, "Don't come near me.
And it's got all sorts of things in it, carnation, cinnamon, jasmine, that buttery orris root, but ...
People sometimes compare it, this isn't a good thing, this is not selling it well, but see, people say that it smells of like bath mats, like damp bath mats.
Or did I do a video about it on Instagram? And this is on my list as a fragrance that I wear almost as a sort of shield, because it's so strong, it's so, I don't know, naughty, I think.
It's just mega, and it's this big powder puff of crazy, and it's Kouros by Yves Saint Laurent.
And I absolutely love it because it just smells like the most expensive wild baby powder.
Not just a sort of t- a little tap of powder, but the whole pot you just spilled, and you rolled yourself into it, and you are just surrounded by this kind of a, almost like a kind of hazy cloud of, "Don't come near me.
And it's got all sorts of things in it, carnation, cinnamon, jasmine, that buttery orris root, but ...
People sometimes compare it, this isn't a good thing, this is not selling it well, but see, people say that it smells of like bath mats, like damp bath mats.
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