I’m meeting a friend in a couple of hours, and am aware that I currently reek of garlic.
I had a fantastic curry last night, and every single part of the meal was covered in either fresh or pureed garlic.
Any idea how long it will take for the smell to go? What is the mechanism for dispersion? Is it dependent on any other factors such as liquid volume ingested, etc.?
In a perfect world? Never.
Why would you have a friend that is offended by garlic. That is not a friend worth having, unless of course, they give you all their garlic.
I think the curry is far more pervasive. I know from experience that my child can smell of curry up to 3 days later. And that my realtor hates showing my house within a few days of me making it.
I would also guess that like most things, dilution is the solution to pollution. Drink buckets of water, couldn’t hurt.
Garlic is the cologne of the gods.
I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this article but here you go.
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Get-Rid-of-Garlic-Smell&id=1245852
Vampire 
The main stink component of garlic is allyl methyl sulfide, which is a hard molecule for the body to excrete. It’s produced in the gut and then goes into your blood. The only way to get rid of it to breathe or sweat it out. If you happen to have a sauna in your house, that would be the place to hang out for the next hour or so. You could try to reduce the bad breath by gargling with some Hydrogen Peroxide.
Smear yourself with butter? No wait, that’s for a burn.
I know, you should bathe in tomato sauce. No no, wait again, that’s for when you’ve been sprayed by a skunk.
Still, both treatments somehow seem appropriate in this case. Your friend isn’t a cannibal by chance?
Thanks for your responses.
I found another cure: we went to an Italian restaurant and ate loads more garlic for lunch, so she smelled of garlic too. 
I bought a garlic oven once and baked an entire head of garlic that night. Then another. Then another.
That’s right, three whole heads of garlic in one night! :eek:
At midday the next day, a co-worker, returning from lunch, stopped dead in his tracks at the threshold, waved his hands in front of his face like he was waving away cigarette smoke, and exclaimed, “What the hell is goin’ on? This place smells like a fuckin’ Mediterranean restaurant!”
I guess he never noticed it building up during the morning and it only hit him upon his return. Either that, or it took that long for the excretion through my skin to begin.
I haven’t used the garlic oven since, because I’m just too damn prone to excess when it comes to baked garlic. 
TMI:
On a similar subject, when I was at uni, my housemate had thrush, and had heard of the new-agey type cure of using garlic to get rid of it. So she put a peeled clove into her vagina. Later that evening she had sex with her boyfriend and forgot about the garlic. The next day she panicked and went to the doctor, who examined her internally and could find nothing. For three days afterwards her breath and body smelled intensely of garlic.
In other news I now have one of these in my wallet. I got it for Christmas but haven’t used it yet. Anyone tried one?
You want garlic? Try making a few cases of garlic jelly.
Used to work with a nurse who reeked of the stuff through her pores. One night I just “innocently” stated that “I could sure go for some garlic toast right about now!”
Never had another problem.
But sometimes we get folks in the ER who have hurt themselves on the job at Dunkin’ Donuts or KFC, and goddamn!
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Nope, haven’t even heard of it but it looks both cool and functional. Similar idea to ceramic garlic graters but more useful. I hope the guy who thought it up does well with it.
As for me, nothing beats a Susi garlic press. Just stick the cloves in, skin and all, squeeze the handles together, and out comes every delectable bit of perfectly pureed skinless garlic. No peeling, no muss, no fuss, and no garlic on your fingers.
You ate her? 
Muffin, if you mean “ate her” in the, ummm, sexual sense, you just made me gag!:p:D
And that’s all I wanna say about ** that**! 
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One of our clients owns a small bakery, and when he comes to talk to my boss, he always reeks of donuts, which happen to be one of the things that I am no longer supposed to eat.
I wonder if eating donut-scented people would be OK.
I have often wondered about this garlic thing myself, as I seem to exude garlic for days even if I merely handle a certain quantity of garlic. The same thing happens with onions, as I chop them up and freeze them. I seem to exude onion from every pore for some time after that.
Just got back from the Gilroy Garlic Festival (my first) and though the food was amazing, I reek of the stuff, too. I’ll try a couple of the suggestions above (want to get as much as I can out before I have to go back to work), but if anyone has anything else to contribute, feel free to post here. Thanks!
Just an anecdote to add, about the bloodbourne nature of the garlic scent. Sometime ago I had eaten something with a lot of garlic and I cut/knicked myself shaving in a few spots razing a couple of days of growth, well, it seemed like I had released the very essence of the garlic-- it was like splashing on some eau de allium aftershave. The blood even tasted of it.
A thought: If you fed a meat animal a bunch of garlic shortly before slaughter, would you get pre-seasoned meat?
Ok, I am SO jealous! I’ve been to Gilroy exactly once and purchase the best garlic bleu cheese sauce ever. Even liked the garlic wine…mmm…garlic.
Yeah, I’ve lived in the Bay Area for 2 decades, but this was my first time down. The garlic ice cream was nummy and everything else (scampi, kabobs, escargot, chicken, bread) was great, too. But I can just smell it coming out of every pore.
Chew parsley to get rid of garlic breath. Go to Garlic & Shots in Soho to taste the true wonder of garlic. Garlic ice cream - yum!
