This afternoon, while making lunch, I had an unfortunate incident with a poorly aimed garlic press that -- in addition to shooting smooshed garlic into my spaghetti sauce -- shot a stream of garlic juice into my hair.
It didn't seem to have any negative effect on the hair, except that, when I took a curling iron to said hair just now, I was greeted with the homey scent of warm garlicky-ness.
Now, if you've ever walked into a room filled with the homey scent of warm garlicky-ness, especially while you were hungry, you know that this can be a very pleasant smell.
In fact, I'll go so far as to say that the happy reactions I've seen on the faces of hungry people greeted with the homey scent of warm garlicky-ness are FAR more enthusiastic than any happy reactions I've seen on the faces of people greeted by other, more commercially-appreciated scents.
Who ever smells vanilla, or gardenia, or whatever Calvin Klein's latest is, and says, "WOW, that smells WONDERFUL!!!" Huh?
So, I am mulling the success of marketing a line of homey-warm-garlicky-scented hairsprays, shampoos, and cosmetics. In addition to its world-famous homey-warm smell, garlic has merit as an antiseptic and antibiotic, which, I'm sure, will help with its . . . something. The addition of olive oil, a natural companion, would open the door to marketing in Christian magazines and bookstores:
"homey-warm-garlic-scented hair oil: just like the stuff on Aaron's beard -- but with antibiotic!"
Mmm . . . maybe not.
3 comments:
I think it would make sense in this society where food has such a high value, well done you. I think, however, that I'll stick to flowery scents.
Other scents to consider:
-coffee
-baking bread
-pizza
-chocolate chip cookies
I don't know about the garlic thing. Peple are going to think you have some sort of vampire fixation.
I've been convinced for years that the ideal "artificial Man-smell" (Cologne? Isn't that a city?) would be lawnmower-scented. The smell of burning motor oil, gasoline and grass clippings: *sniff-ahhh...* Who wouldn't want to smell like that?
If you want to smell like garlic all the time, you could just eat four or five fresh cloves a day. My sister used to do that when she was working on allicin-related experiments at the lab, and she always smelled a little bit like garlic.
She's certifiably vampire-proof now.
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