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eau de cologne

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eau de cologne

Refreshing toilet water (weaker than perfume), made of alcohol and aromatic oils. Its invention is ascribed to Giovanni Maria Farina (1685-1766), who moved from Italy to Cologne in 1709 to manufacture it.



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Madame Savon imagined that even her perfumes would be more fragrant in such company, and she insisted on letting one drop--a single drop--of her eau de cologne fall on the beautiful texture.
As she opened the door, a strong flavor of that toilet soap and eau de Cologne with which Whiskey Dick was in the habit of gracefully effacing the traces of dissipation made known his presence.
His plump white neck stood out sharply above the black collar of his uniform, and he smelled of Eau de Cologne.
 
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