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PAULIE SEEKS SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

If you smell like you’ve been sleeping with the fishes, “Sopranos” co-star Tony Sirico has just the cologne for you.

Sirico, who played coifed capo Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri on the Emmy Award-winning HBO show, last night unveiled his new fragrance – named Paolo Per Uomo – at a bash in TriBeCa.

“It’s a man’s cologne that women love,” Sirico told The Post.

The 66-year-old Brooklyn-born actor said the fragrance – which translates from Italian into Paul for Men – reeks of macho manliness.

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Sirico worked the room at the Tribeca Rooftop – and showed off his new smell.

“I was always well-groomed,” Sirico said, explaining why he would want to create the musk.

“You could smell me coming,” he added.

The cologne – advertised under the catchphrase “Make It Known You Mean Business” – is sold in a dark blue and gray bottle.

Asked what makes the cologne smell good, Sirico said they put some “cognac in it – and it made the magic.”

Sirico’s cologne follows in the footsteps of other celebrities who have attached their name to a perfume, such as Paris Hilton, Jennifer Lopez and Sarah Jessica Parker.

“I’ve been wearing cologne all my life,” said Sirico.

The cologne is not yet available in stores.

Before he became a knee-breaking henchman on TV, Sirico was a low-level, gun-toting shakedown artist who threatened to kill cops and hinted that he once whacked a guy with five bullets in the head.

In 2006, TheSmokingGun.com reported that Sirico had been busted 29 times for charges ranging from armed robbery to disorderly conduct.

Sirico was sentenced to seven years behind bars, but served just three, for shaking down a Manhattan nightclub owner in 1970.

At his sentencing, according to a transcript of the proceeding, a prosecutor outlined the bullying style that Sirico would later bring to the HBO mob drama.

Sirico was working his mob magic on a disco called “Together” in Midtown – telling club owner John Addison how he dealt with guys who didn’t obey.

“You hit them over the head with a baseball bat and they come around,” said Sirico.

Additional reporting by Melissa Jane Kronfeld