Strange Smells: The Marketing of Unusual Fragrances

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly

Apostrophe Podcast Network

Cbc, Terry O'reilly, Advertising, Marketing, Under The Influence, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Business

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week, we take a whiff of some of the strangest fragrances being marketed today.

Choosing a perfume or cologne is a form of personal expression. What you smell like says something about you.

But does that include bacon perfume? Or mayonnaise cologne?

There’s a fragrance that makes you smell like a bakery, and a soap for men that smells like gasoline.

Uncommon Scents.

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1:02.1	What love doesn't conquer.
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1:05.2	What a relief! You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly.
1:22.3	When Chuck Jones was growing up, he described himself as not only a wimp, but a wimp nerd nebish.
1:30.8	He was 6'1 and weighed 132 pounds. He was transparent to girls and said girls would look
1:38.3	right through him to admire other boys. When he later became an animator and director at Warner Brothers, he realized that when he
1:47.0	was developing characters, he was looking into a mirror.
1:52.0	Characters were really a reflection of himself, his ambitions, his hopes, and his flaws.
1:58.0	That's when Chuck Jones created Peppy Lapeue. Pepe Lepew was an amorous skunk. He was
2:08.5	always looking for love and repelling the objects of his desire with his skunk smell. The voice of
2:15.5	Pepe was done by the amazing Mel Blank. He modeled the voice on movie star
2:20.3	Charles Boyier, who you can hear in this clip from the 1938 movie, Algiers.
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