What is "colognes"

Usage examples of "colognes".

An average perfumer would not have made any great progress with its few floral oils, colognes and spices.

But what was stored behind them, in warehouses and in gigantic cellars, in kegs of oil, in stacks of finest lavender soaps, in demijohns of floral colognes, wines, alcohols, in bales of scented leather, in sacks and chests and crates stuffed with spices — Grenouille smelled out every detail through the thickest walls — these were riches beyond those of princes.

Germaine Ashville, having done her part by giving her sister-in-law a facial with almost pure ethylhexanediol, and pouring two full quarts of it into her bubble bath, and even spiking all her colognes and perfumes with the same popular odorless insect repellent, was already boarding a plane to Denver with her brother, and the Saint was seeing them off.

The Surveyors stand together at the Quarter-deck, Mason in gray stockings, brown breeches, and snuff-color'd Coat with pinchbeck buttons, Dixon in red coat, Breeches, and boots, and a Hat with a severely Military rake to it, waiting the Instruments, both, now, more keenly than at any time during this late sea-passage, feeling like Supercargo, pos'd not before wild seas or exotick landscapes, but among Objects of Oceanick Commerce, as all 'round them Sailors and Dock-men labor, nets lift and sway as if by themselves, bulging with casks of nails and jellied eels, British biscuit and buttons for your waistcoat, Ton-icks, Colognes, golden Provolones.

I've sold jewelry on the street, done paste-ups and mechanicals for a magazine, sold men's colognes at Macy's, and worked in a film lab.

The changing room had the usual hooks and benches and too few coat hangers, and steamy mirrors for men to lean backwards and comb their hair at, if they had any, and much effortfully evaporating male sweat (stalled in this process, and forming a furtive mist which slowed the air) together with competing colognes and scalp gels and armpit honeyers.

All of his shaving gear and half a dozen bottles of various spray colognes and mouthwashes were set out neatly atop the toilet tank, and there was an incongruous brocaded satin bathrobe hanging on the back of the door.

He smelled the outre, cloying effect beyond that edge, smelling rank, musky colognes of asbestos mixed with soy spray.

Before she could turn and shrink into a defensive slump, the Sailorman had pulled her against his chest and was kneading her breasts, pinching her nipples painfully: He wore his usual colognes: fish grease, old sweat, cheap rum.