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For men who aren’t kids anymore

A commercial for Dana Canoe, and below the jump, another version.

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Dana Tabu ~ perfume review

Dana Tabu fragrance Welcome to a week of reviews of drugstore classics. It seems fitting to start the week with a review of Dana Tabu, one of the most loved, reviled, illustrious, and cheap of the perfumes you'll find at the local Walgreen's.

In 1932, Jean Carles, the nose behind such genius compositions as Christian Dior Miss Dior (with Paul Vacher), Carven Ma Griffe, Schiaparelli Shocking, and many of the Lucien Lelong fragrances, created Tabu. Legend has it that Dana, originally a Spanish company, gave Carles instructions to create a perfume that would suit a “puta”, or prostitute. Tabu was Dana's very first fragrance…

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English Leather Black by Dana ~ new fragrance

Dana English Leather Black cologne for menDana Classic Fragrances launched English Leather Black in March:

Bold and distinctive, English Leather Black is the first new scent from one of America’s best known classic men’s fragrances, English Leather. It features base notes of musk and sandalwood, combined with top notes of bergamot and coriander to create a mysterious and masculine cologne…

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