For Scent-imental Reasons
1949 | 7m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Chuck Jones |
|---|---|
| Writer: | Michael Maltese |
| Staring: |
| Pepé Le Pew invades a Parisian perfumery, where he sniffs the various scents. The shopkeeper runs in horror and recruits a female cat to run the skunk out of the shop. She tosses the cat inside, and a bottle of dye falls over, accidentally painting a white stripe down the cat's back. Pepé gives chase... | |
| Release Date: | Nov 12, 1949 |
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| Director: | Chuck Jones |
| Writer: | Michael Maltese |
| Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
| Keywords | paris, france, cartoon, cartoon cat, cartoon skunk, pepé le pew |
| Production Companies | Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 09, 2025 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Mel Blanc | Pepe Le Pew / Perfume Shop Owner / Gendarme (voice) |
| Bea Benaderet | Cat |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Peter Alvarado | Background Designer |
| Ken Harris | Animation |
| Treg Brown | Editor, Sound Effects Editor |
| Robert Gribbroek | Layout Supervisor |
| Phil Monroe | Animation |
| Chuck Jones | Director |
| Michael Maltese | Story |
| Carl W. Stalling | Original Music Composer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Edward Selzer | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 2 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 3 |
| 2024 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| 2024 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 3 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 2024 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 2024 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
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You have to pity the poor suitor who turns up to meet his beloved only to get quite a shock! He returns with a gendarme only to find "Pepé" merrily mixing his own special sort of scent in the perfumery! Talk about eye watering? Perhaps an attentive stray cat can help? Unless - of course - it manages ... to get itself covered in white hair dye and start to think it's a skunk too! Might (unrequited) love be in the air? It has a fun spell near the end with quite an entertaining mirror-effect scene, but otherwise this was never my favourite bouncing cartoon character and the story isn't really anything other than an excuse to coat the critter in different colours. It's all perfectly watchable, but nothing special.