Before that you had the Preppy Handbook.

Oh yes. I started my time at my university in '81, and I had never seen so many alligator shirts gathered together in one location in my entire life. And I remember the entire campus smelled like Calvin Klein's Obsession once it came out for men as well as women.

And Drakkar? Or was that more 1985? I remember all the boys had Drakkar in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Drakkar Noir was still going strong in 1991. Man that stuff stunk, but no where near as badly as the Axe Body Spray!

My brother wore Drakkar Noir I think through is graduation in 1993.

I stopped wearing Drakkar Noir in '90, I think.

Jason still wears Paco Rabanne, which seems to date from that era, too.

I usually default to Ivory soap and Sure deodorant rather than relying on cologne, but on occasions when I felt compelled to use the latter I started out with Old Spice in high school, then cycled through Pierre Cardin, Oleg Cassini, and now a knock-off of Calvin Klein's Eternity. (The soap version of the latter was what made my ex the best-smelling man I've been around to this day.)

On the right person, Drakkar is just a wonderful scent. When the wrong person wears it (someone whose chemistry does not mix well with Drakkar), it is really odious.

Luckily more people learned not to totally bathe in their applied scents after high school. Man, you could smell some guys before they got to the same hall. Drakkar, Polo and ... there might have been one other.

(The soap version of the latter was what made my ex the best-smelling man I've been around to this day.)

I love how clearly we can remember these things.

Brut! Brut was huge when I was in high school.