Basic Trope: A character sniffs someone they're attracted to or something with their scent.
- Straight:
- Alice finds Bob's shirt and sniffs it.
- Alice sniffs Bob's neck when passing by him.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice sniffs Bob's clothes or body every time she has the chance.
- Alice has a collection of stuff with Bob's scent.
- Downplayed:
- Alice gives a quick sniff during a hug or after a kiss, nothing long or invasive enough to be uncomfortable.
- Sexy Shirt Switch
- Justified: Alice and Bob are dating and Alice finds his smell alluring.
- Inverted: Alice uses all her senses but that of smell to signal her attraction to Bob.
- Subverted: Alice picks up a piece of clothing that IS clearly Bob's and pauses staring at it, then takes it to the laundry room, mumbling about his slack personal hygiene.
- Double Subverted: ... then gives it a sniff before tossing in the laundry basket.
- Parodied: Alice picks up a piece of Bob's clothes and burst into tears when she realises it's new/washed.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Alice sniffs Bob or his clothes only at every other available opportunity.
- Alice sniffs Bob's clothes to determine just what he encountered most recently.
- Averted: No character, whether single or dating, sniffs someone's clothes or body.
- Enforced: It's a way of portraying sexual interest without outrage from Moral Guardians.
- Lampshaded: "Why did you sniff someone's clothes like that? So creepy."
- Invoked:
- Alice hears or reads that there's something special in a partner's smell and wants to try for herself.
- Bob gives an old shirt to Alice just before their relationship becomes long-distance.
- Exploited: Charlie finds out about Alice's clothes sniffing habbit and blackmails her with it.
- Defied: Bob doesn't let clothing lying around nor let's people get too close when greeting.
- Discussed: "Why would someone sniff clothes from their crush? That can't be healthy."
- Conversed: "Without Smell-O-Vision, we can't even know how it is that Bob smells so great to Alice."
- Implied:
- Alice does most of the laundry and sometimes is caught staring at Bob's clothes.
- Alice presses her face on Bob's skin when they hug but there are no sound effects to confirm.
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: Alice finds and sniffs Bob's shirt. In more and more exaggerated and with dramatic posing each time it looks like she's done.
- Played for Drama:
- Bob is disgusted when he finds out Alice sniffs his clothes and views it as creepy, putting a hard strain in an otherwise good relationship.
- The disgust is mostly because they're not dating and doing such things shows Bob that Alice is unhealthily obsessed.
- Played for Horror: Alice is a Stalker with a Crush, so stealing and sniffing on clothes is another way of signaling how unhinged she is.
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