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Making Scents of the Sea

I should have recognized that the First Caswellian Law of Boating applied. It is: Anything that seems simple, isn’t.

I just wanted to buy my friend Leo a Christmas gift. He’s had a number of boats and is married to a woman who used to do the varnish on the legendary Ticonderoga. Nuff said.

My wife suggested a nice cologne, something she thought might remind him of the sea and wonderful days on the water. I must have missed the doomsday bell tolling, so

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