My shirt smells like Cilantro
I just put on a shirt today that I haven’t worn in a long time. In fact, I’ve probably only worn it twice in my life. It is an Old Chicago Spring Mini-Tour t-shirt from 2005. Here’s a shot of me wearing the shirt that I took on my webcam. For some reason my webcam takes really crappy still pictures, but good videos. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Anyway, so I put the shirt on and noticed the smell of cilantro shortly thereafter. I thought maybe it was just something that I smelled in passing, but the smell lingered for the next 5-10 minutes. Finally, I decided to smell my shirt to see if it was the culprit, and sure enough; my shirt smells like cilantro.
Now I’m just trying to figure out where the cilantro smell came from. As I mentioned earlier, I have probably only worn this shirt twice, and the rest of the time it has been stuffed in my white t-shirt drawer. This makes me wonder if it was the t-shirt drawer itself that smelled like cilantro. However, after subjecting my drawer to the smell test, I quickly realized that this was not the case.
What else could it be, then, that made my shirt smell like cilantro? Another seemingly obvious answer would be Chipotle. As a loyal reader to my blog, I’m sure you’ve noticed my affinity for Chipotle. I’ve written poems, letters, registered a domain name, and even made up stories about Chipotle. Plus, their heavenly rice contains cilantro and lime. Naturally, it would have to be Chipotle that caused my shirt to smell of cilantro, right?
I don’t think so. You see, although I go to Chipotle as often as I talk about it, I don’t think I went there wearing that shirt. My reasoning? Over the past two years I have almost exclusively gone to Chipotle while working, and I would never wear an Old Chicago spring mini tour, 2005 t-shirt while working. It’s not quite business-casual.
So, if it’s not the drawer and it’s not Chipotle that caused the distinct smell of cilantro, what was it? I guess your guess is as good as mine.
Here’s another photo of the shirt, this one is of the back. I had to take my shirt off to get it to work on my web cam. Check out how big my trapezius looks. I am awesome.
Please leave me a comment if you can pinpoint the source of my eau de cilantro. Maybe you’ve been with me while I was wearing this shirt (a pleasurable experience for you I’m sure) or maybe you know of another substance that smells remarkably close to Cilantro that I may have mistakenly assumed to be the real deal.