also: my hated boss has begun using the same fragrant hair product* that my exboyfriend began using around the time that our relationship started rotting. smelling it in the office is a little more than disturbing.
*aveda confixor. the smell is sharp and strange, and the mess of attraction-repulsion, familiar-unfamiliar, pleasant-disgusting it conjures up is too much for me. at the risk of sounding terribly melodramatic, I have to say that if you took the experience of having your most comforting, belovered friend turn into a stranger who wanted to ruin you, and turned the first hints of that experience into a smell, the smell of aveda confixor might be it.