I know of the garlic smell everyone tells you are smelling like. It seems to ooze out of every pore. I bet they can smell you about 10 feet away. It is one of the worst smells I can remember. I had a boss who drank carrot juice with one to two cloves of garlic per day for about a month.
The smell was so bad nobody could approach him. Finally his wife told him how badly he stunk. He stopped the garlic. Customers would wiggle their noses and excuse themselves. Finally, the stench left.
If your boyfriend can stick around with that odor, your lucky.