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cologne

[kuh-lohn] / kəˈloʊn /
NOUN
fragrance product
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Mallory Dodge, a stay-at-home mom in Georgia, was flooded with pungent memories of Axe when considering which starter cologne to buy her teenage son last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

Dodge thought she had avoided any repeats when she settled on some cologne from Abercrombie & Fitch for her son.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

He sprayed Sharaa with Trump-branded cologne, before presenting him with his own supply to take home for his wife, jokingly asking him how many he has.

From BBC Dec. 8, 2025

The thing about guys trying to be like Charlie Sheen is they wear borrowed danger like drugstore cologne.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2025

She’d sent the size ten-and-a-half Nikes that I asked for, and in the box with them, she’d added a can of shaving cream, a razor, and some Chanel aftershave cologne.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

The perfumes and colognes are selling for nearly $200.

From Salon Dec. 10, 2024

That’s probably because Calone is employed as an ingredient in a vast array of colognes and perfumes, including scents by Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Christian Dior.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2021

"When I started advertising, all of a sudden it became one of the best colognes out there. I was doing appearances; 15,000, 18,000, 20,000 people were showing up outside of Saks Fifth Avenue."

From Fox News Aug. 20, 2021

Mr. Fernandéz looked in a mirror, lined with boxes of Bulgari and Fendi colognes, and reached over the fence of Mr. Esteves’s hair to pluck up wilted locks within.

From New York Times Aug. 14, 2015

He goes shopping with her on Madison Avenue at stores they must be buzzed into, for cashmere cardigans and outrageously expensive English colognes that Maxine buys without deliberation or guilt.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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