It’s funny the way we really are like animals, well I am anyway. I think it’s fascinating that certain scents attract and repel animals. I for one went out with a guy solely because of how he smelled.

His scent was intoxicating and that’s the first thing I noticed and drew me to him. It was this simple spicy-woody citrusy smell with undertones of freshness. I don’t remember what perfume it was; I think it may have been his aftershave. The scent was so sensual nothing else seemed to matter. On our first date I sat taking in the occasional whiff of him and suddenly he seemed all the more sexier, handsomer, cleverer and wittier. Afterwards, alone in my room, when I could still smell his sweet masculine scent, I knew we were destined to be together.

So started the almost six months relationship, we were inseparable, I was always so happy around him and soon enough he was my world. I could tell he’s in my house from upstairs in my bedroom, I could tell if he’s been someplace a few minutes after I walk in. We were just amazing like that, he and that fragrance had become one. I think I may have even loved him a bit for that.

Then one day he came by smelling of some cheap drug store cologne! Oh no! I was instantly repulsed so I came right out and inquired of that scent that was soo him! His response was “Oh that? It’s finished.” So I asked him delicately when he was getting another one and he said ”I’m not buying nothin’! That’s some expensive shit my sister got for me from Harrods for Christmas… smelled good though innit?” Seriously I felt I’d been punched in the stomach. I felt like screaming at him Expensive shit???? That’s what’s been getting you laid these past couple of months… you imbecile!!!

Needless to say it was down hill from there, after two weeks of dropping unsuccessful hints; things were just not the same. I tried to love the new cologne but it just didn’t work. He didn’t seem as funny and smart and cool anymore, in fact he was damn right annoying and clingy and bossy and cussed too much. My parents hated him with a passion, and I didn’t feel like playing Romeo and Juliet with him. It was too much work so we broke up.

The End

PLAYING: Brothers and Sisters - Les Nubians

READING: Diary of a Manhattan call girl – Tracy Quan

WATCHING: Cutting it

QUOTE: “It’s Jah Love that binds us together”