History Main / PervertedSniffing

* ''Manga/AkuNoHana'': Kickstarts the plot. Nakamura catches Kasuga sniffing his crush Saeki's clothes, and proceeds to blackmail him.

When a character audibly sniffs another character, indicating they have an unhealthy and often very creepy attraction to them. Usually smelling hair or discarded articles of clothing.

** In the episode "Shadow", Spike enters Buffy's room while she's not home and sniffs one of her sweaters; when confronted, he claims it's a "predator thing."
** In "The Pack" Xander is possessed by the spirit of a hyena and starts sniffing Buffy's hair, a prelude to his AttemptedRape later on.
** And the situation is reversed in "Beer Bad" when Buffy becomes a NubileSavage and starts sniffing Xander. Made even more triangular when, at the end of the episode, Willow is seated on a park bench with Buffy crouched next to her and Buffy sniffs her hair as well.
* A sign of Series/{{Angel}}'s breakdown in Season 2 when Darla has been giving him {{Erotic Dream}}s -- at one stage he's standing behind Cordelia and starts sniffing her hair, causing her to run off. "Personal space bubble!"

* In the third season episode of ''Series/TheSopranos'' entitled "Second Opinion", newly "made" man Christopher Moltisanti receives a surprise, late night visit at his apartment from his immediate superior in the crime family Paulie Walnuts and Patsy Parisi. The two gangsters comb through Chris and his girlfriend Adriana's belongings to cherry-pick Christopher's stolen swag. Chris catches Paulie taking a mighty sniff of a pair of panties from Adriana's lingerie drawer.

* On ''Series/{{iCarly}}'', Freddie smells Shelby Marx's hair when she hugs him.

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* Frollo sniffs Esmeralda's hair in the Disney version of ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''.

* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}''. In "Candy Morningstar", [[BiTheWay Maze]] sniffs an erotic dancer that Lucifer has hooked up with, after [[EatingTheEyeCandy blatantly checking out her ass]].

* In ''Anime/{{Sarazanmai}}'', a flashback shows Enta covertly sniffing Kazuki's gymn clothes, revealing that he's attracted to him.

* In ''Manga/HekikaiNoAion'', Sheila smells Tatsuya's necktie at the loneliness of the infirmary. HilarityEnsues when Tatsuya enters.

* ''Film/EverAfter'': Monsieur le Peu a StalkerWithACrush to Danielle sniffs her hair after he buys her.

When a character audibly sniffs another character, indicating they have an unhealthy attraction to them. Usually smelling hair or discarded articles of clothing.

'''Frollo''': Such a clever witch. So typical of your kind to twist the truth. To cloud the mind with unholy thoughts.

* Krillin sniffs a diamond that was in Bulma's crotch in ''Manga/DragonBall''.

* Paul Gallier does this to his estranged sister Irena in ''Film/CatPeople'' (1982 remake). However, they are, of course [[CaptainObvious werecats]] and it's a part of their animalistic bonding ritual. Paul wants [[spoiler:Irena to be his mate.]]

* In the third season episode of "The Sopranos" entitled "Second Opinion", newly "made" man Christopher Moltisanti receives a surprise, late night visit at his apartment from his immediate superior in the crime family Paulie Walnuts and Patsy Parisi. The two gangsters comb through Chris and his girlfriend Adriana's belongings to cherry-pick Christopher's stolen swag. Chris catches Paulie taking a mighty sniff of a pair of panties from Adriana's lingerie drawer.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'', resident JerkAss Starfish molests and nearly kidnaps a tied up and helpless [[spoiler: Sette]] before being driven off by another character, but tears free a chunk of her hair in the process and creepily sniffs it as he retreats, remarking to himself that he knew that the victim would 'fancy' him. '''[[{{Understatement}} (She doesn't.)]]'''

* During a party scene in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker circles around Rachel and appears to sniff her.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'': Cody does this to Gwen in one episode. She is understandably disgusted.

* One of the first things Noboyuki Sugou is seen doing in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' is sniffing [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Asuna's hair]]. This exists purely to evoke disgust in the audience, something [[WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged the abridged series]] plays completely seriously.