For Scent-imental Reasons

1949 0h 7m EN

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6.8

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★6.8TMDB · 79

AnimationComedy

Synopsis

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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...

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Mel Blanc
Pepe Le Pew / Perfume Shop Owner / Gendarme (voice)
Bea Benaderet
Cat

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Chuck Jones
Writers: Michael Maltese
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 7-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

ERA

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77 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Carl W. Stalling. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Treg Brown shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Mel Blanc and Bea Benaderet carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0041380 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 79 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Chuck Jones directs. Carl W. Stalling scores. Treg Brown cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 7-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
277 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Original score by Carl W. Stalling. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Treg Brown shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Mel Blanc and Bea Benaderet carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt0041380 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 79 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Original score: Carl W. Stalling
Editing: Treg Brown
Runtime: 7 min · 0h 7m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: For Scent-imental Reasons (1949)

Awards

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

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Also by

Chuck Jones

Community reviews

What people are saying

CinemaSerf2025-01-30
★ 6/10
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.

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