Annie, you could do like those FBI agents do, at least in the movies, you could carry a little bottle of Vicks vaporub and put a little bit beneath your nose. Or does that smell worse than garlic?
He may be an arthritic who is taking garlic for his arthritis. My mother did that for quite a while and it worked, it really helped her pain, but goodness, did she smell bad.
First she tried the raw garlic (which worked the best) but YIKES the "fragrance" was something else. So she switched to the garlic pills, which still helped her but after about 3 days the garlic smell started coming through her skin
It was terrible, truly it was. She was so embarrassed when I finally told her about the odor. She actually wanted to thrash my legs with a switch, threatened to do it too.

I'm over 50, for heaven's sake, would that be embarrassing or what?
She chased me around the living room shouting, "<b>How long were you going to let me walk around smelling like that??"</b>
*sigh* she has forgiven but still hasn't forgotten
