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politicat

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49. I was in HS in the late 80s-early 90s. Drakkar Noir + Knockoffs.

Thu Dec 22, 2016, 04:17 PM

Dec 2016

Oh, it was bad. I also went to HS in a place and time where either male anti-perspirant/deodorant had not been invented, or parents didn't buy it for their male children, or nobody had explained that it's a useful tool to be used regularly.

So instead... Drakkar Noir, and its various knockoffs. In every room. Applied with a firehose. Over gym and life and unevenly heated building sweat, inside the hot new fabric -- polyester fleece, before wicking.

I still get ghost-headaches thinking about surviving geometry in that radiator-heated, over-warm classroom.

OTOH, Fahrenheit (C. Dior) was *nice* in small quantities. Which seems to be the trick that doesn't get taught to young men: apply sparingly, on pulse points. Not splashed on by the palmful or sprayed like you're graffiti-ing your body.

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