I have never been a man of standard preferences when it comes to bathing products. When I was a kid, I would use the soap and shampoo that my mom bought me to use. I held onto those preferences until I started dating girls, then I caught myself using their shampoo. Yet lately I've been at a loss for a standard brand of shampoo.

Over the past two years, I've stuck with the Herbal Essences series, for I liked the smell. I'm bored of it now. Smell has everything to do with it, because 1) I really don't have much hair to "revitalize" or "strengthen" and 2) I don't believe that shampoo really "revitalizes" or "strengthens." They all wash hair, on a pretty even playing field. But what makes them different is the smell. You have you "I want to smell like grandma" shampoo, your "I want to smell like a field full of daisies" shampoo, and your "I want to smell like a musty old man" shampoo.

These selections confuse me for there is not one smell that fits my personality. Why can't there be? Needless to say, I'm on the constant lookout for my next favorite smell.

Yesterday I picked an interesting one; VO5's Strawberries and Cream. I didn't really get a good smell in the shampoo isle because the shampoo isle smells like everything. The "everything" in that isle is ideally the exact smell I'm looking for. Yet, when I got in the shower and broke the new bottle open, a rather conflicting sensation came over me. Do it rub it in my hair, or do I lick it until it's all gone? This stuff smells so much like strawberries and cream that it was extremely hard to force myself not to eat it. In complete seriousness, I wonder what it would taste like.