Gonçalo

 

Gonçalo has got that cold again. Every winter brings it back. So Gonçalo barely gets out of bed and, when he does, wraps himself in many layers of wool. Then he waits for the cold to disappear, for he cannot work : Gonçalo is a Nose for a French perfume company. He gets terribly bored, surfs aimlessly on the Internet or sleeps all day for a week. Then one day the chemist around the corner tries to talk him into buying yet another new drug for his cold. Gonçalo hardly listens to the talkative girl but takes the drug out of boredom. Yet, to his great surprise, the cold is gone in two days. Gonçalo goes back to the chemist's to thank her and, without thinking, asks her out for dinner. The next night, he finds out she is not only a talkative brunette but a very lively one too. When morning comes, he is terribly tired and in love, even though she smells a bit of clove.



Picture by Yago Partal