{"id":24833,"date":"2010-11-29T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T19:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=24833"},"modified":"2010-11-29T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T19:21:53","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-ambush-spray-cologne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-ambush-spray-cologne\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day \u2013 Ambush Spray Cologne"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

More than anything, the one thing that accompanied me every single day of my four college years at the University of Wisconsin in the late 1960’s was a spritz of Ambush Spray Cologne. I should have bought stock in Dana,\u00a0 the company that made it, for as many bottles of \u00a0it as I went through. The male equivalent was called Canoe. Sometimes girls wore that too but I was so attached to the scent and the shade of pink and hard rubbery shape and feel of the bottle I never made it past Ambush.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Here’s what I looked like when I first started wearing it at the tail end of high school:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

For as laquered as my hair was it might appear that I may have coated that with Ambush too, but that was all about Aquanet. My Aquanet hairspray kept my hair helmet so firm I never had to worry about it getting crushed when the amount of Ambush I sprayed on myself put me in many situations like this back in college:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Thank you, Ambush, for making me smell good then and for that astounding pink bottle still lighting up my eyes today.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than anything, the one thing that accompanied me every single day of my four college years at the University of Wisconsin in the late 1960’s was a spritz of Ambush Spray Cologne. I should have bought stock in Dana,\u00a0 the company that made it, for as many bottles of \u00a0it as I went through. … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1187,359,241,87,193,757,1001],"tags":[61,2111,2115,2113,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-24833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bathroom","category-hair","category-health-beauty","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-photograph","category-romance","tag-allee-willis","tag-ambush-dana","tag-ambush-perfume","tag-ambush-spray-cologne","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}