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Buck Spray Cologne

The shaggy, smelly Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus).

The shaggy part is obvious. Hair is brown to grey and darkens with age.

The smelly part has to be imagined. I read (can't say that I was close enough to sniff this herd) that the glands of the waterbuck produces an oil that smells of musk. The odor is strong enough to repel predators, greasy enough to "water-proof" this big antelope when in rivers and swamps (where waterbucks like to hang out), and potent enough to function as an insecticide. The oil even protects the animal from the dreaded tsetse fly!

Maybe next year I'll forgo the DEET in Africa and just go with a waterbuck hair and body mist. Waddaya think?