For Scent-imental Reasons

For Scent-imental Reasons is a 1949 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese.

[2] The short was released on November 12, 1949, and featured the debut of Penelope Pussycat[3] (who is unnamed in this cartoon).

A Parisian perfume shop owner is horrified to find a skunk, Pepé Le Pew, sampling his fragrances.

She slides across the floor, slams into a table, and overturns a bottle of white hair dye.

A “bang” is heard, so she frantically rushes out—only to find that he’d tricked her (“I missed, fortunately for you!”).

So, he wanders off to search for his “young lady skunk.” As he walks away, the cat notices how muscular the paint makes him look.