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Since times immemorial, teenage boys have been walking around in a heavily-fragranced cloud. It’s like a rite of passage, where they go from practically boycotting showers to taking an extreme interest in personal freshness, seemingly overnight. When I was in high school in the ’90s, the teen boy fragrance of choice was Drakkar Noir or CK One; if you’re slightly younger, it might’ve been Axe body spray. But no matter how old you are, chances are good that you’ve encountered an adolescent dude who has doused himself in some sort of cologne — well-meaning, if slightly overpowering.

You might be even more likely to encounter such a thing these days, since

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