01/21/2020
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Frank woke up with a terrible hangover. He opened his eyes and was glad that he could still see something. It's not healthy to drink Bay Rum. Bay Rum is an aftershave lotion or hair tonic that originally came from Saint Thomas (American Virgin Islands). At that time it was made from bay and rum (yes, that's not surprising now). Bay is not a beautiful bay but Pimenta racemosa, West Indian laurel. The oil of the bay contains eugenol as its main component, which is also found in the clove and garden clove. In addition, Bay contains tarragol (tarragon) and chavicol (betel pepper). So Frank woke up, the gigantic tomcat purred in his head and Frank smelled strongly of cloves. Cloves with alcohol.
The empty Bay Rum bottles (58% neutral alcohol, for external use only) were still standing or lying on the kitchen table. Not one of them contained a drop. Frank searched the kitchen cupboard for aspirin, sighed in relief when he found some and took it with a little tap water. Frank had gone bowling the night before, with his buddies from the office. There was nothing to drink at the bowling alley since prohibition was introduced in 1920. But "a man remains a man even if the suffragettes don't like it," muttered Frank and moaned. Frank used to use Bay Rum as a hair tonic. In 1919 he had bought a larger supply, because he feared that there would be no more hair tonic in 1920. Although an unjustified fear, his precaution made him a very popular man last night. After bowling, the whole troop wandered to his house. One bottle gave the other. Brotherhoods were formed. Songs were sung. People danced on the tables and the last bowling friends left the house staggering early in the morning. "Hopefully they're all still alive," thought Frank, and set about cleaning up.
Bay Rum smells like Bay Rum and especially like Bay, i.e. Eugenol (clove oil). Providence Perfume come from Providence (Rhode Island, USA). With the Cologne (Cologne) Bay Rum, they wanted to remind people that the nearby city of Newport was a centre of rum production in the 18th century, which in turn was due to the fact that Newport was also the centre of the slave trade at that time, as rum was traded for slaves in West Africa. I wonder if that's a great reason to remember Newport Anyway, Newport is located by the sea and that's why the fragrance "Spume" is in Bay Rum. Spray smells like heating oil. This gives the impression that Bay Rum is clove-flavoured fuel oil. That's different.
I can't really recommend this to anyone. But if someone - like family tester M - thinks that heating oil smells great, then Bay Rum might be the right thing for him. At least during the Christmas season. If Frank were still alive, he would say that although he doesn't know exactly what happened that night, he hasn't used hair lotion since then because the smell makes him sick.
The empty Bay Rum bottles (58% neutral alcohol, for external use only) were still standing or lying on the kitchen table. Not one of them contained a drop. Frank searched the kitchen cupboard for aspirin, sighed in relief when he found some and took it with a little tap water. Frank had gone bowling the night before, with his buddies from the office. There was nothing to drink at the bowling alley since prohibition was introduced in 1920. But "a man remains a man even if the suffragettes don't like it," muttered Frank and moaned. Frank used to use Bay Rum as a hair tonic. In 1919 he had bought a larger supply, because he feared that there would be no more hair tonic in 1920. Although an unjustified fear, his precaution made him a very popular man last night. After bowling, the whole troop wandered to his house. One bottle gave the other. Brotherhoods were formed. Songs were sung. People danced on the tables and the last bowling friends left the house staggering early in the morning. "Hopefully they're all still alive," thought Frank, and set about cleaning up.
Bay Rum smells like Bay Rum and especially like Bay, i.e. Eugenol (clove oil). Providence Perfume come from Providence (Rhode Island, USA). With the Cologne (Cologne) Bay Rum, they wanted to remind people that the nearby city of Newport was a centre of rum production in the 18th century, which in turn was due to the fact that Newport was also the centre of the slave trade at that time, as rum was traded for slaves in West Africa. I wonder if that's a great reason to remember Newport Anyway, Newport is located by the sea and that's why the fragrance "Spume" is in Bay Rum. Spray smells like heating oil. This gives the impression that Bay Rum is clove-flavoured fuel oil. That's different.
I can't really recommend this to anyone. But if someone - like family tester M - thinks that heating oil smells great, then Bay Rum might be the right thing for him. At least during the Christmas season. If Frank were still alive, he would say that although he doesn't know exactly what happened that night, he hasn't used hair lotion since then because the smell makes him sick.
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