Curry Perfume

Almost everyone everywhere will tell you that curry is one of the most amazing smells on this good earth - but no one wants to smell like it!

Smelling like curry outside of your house is like announcing that you are: 1. Here 2. Ethnic and 3. Foreign - everyone looks at you like you have personally imposed on their life.

If you have long hair? Curry will cling to your hair like my nephew clings to his mom - hanging on for dear life. The worst is when the elevator doors shut and cut off the supply of new air. The air quickly goes from fresh to ethnic in 2.3 seconds and everyone gives you the side-eye of shame. Amirite?! Once, I was actually told that smelling like curry is unprofessional?!

ATTENTION OFFICE PEOPLE: Stop glaring at me while I am heating up my lunch. Heating up your Cup-O-Noodles after I’ve just reheated my chicken curry in the microwave is NOT the same as heating up anything fish! Your Cup-O-Noodles will not taste like curry, but it sure will taste like fish!

It’s refreshing to meet someone who appreciates the smell of curry so much that in the most random of places, like the nightclub, he is able to sift through the Chanel Chance you practically showered in to cover up that curry smell and say: “You smell good…did you make curry today?” I think the next question we can all agree on should be, “will you marry me?”

I think it is time to stop being embarrassed of smelling too “ethnic.” It’s OK to shut your bedroom door and open a window while you cook to avoid all your clothes in your closet smelling like curry, but the next time you let you hair down from being in a high bun all day and the fragrant released is curry, just smile and appreciate that you had the best lunch at work today - and now everyone knows it. 

FYI- Curry scented perfume is actually a thing.