Every video store had one. A beaded curtain, a hand-lettered sign, and a smell you never forgot: carpet cleaner, warm plastic and somebody's cologne.

The sign on the curtain

We spent a year chasing that smell. Here is what we found, and what we bottled.

Nobody went back there for the movies.

Night manager, 1991

• Warm plastic
• Carpet cleaner
• Somebody's cologne

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Credits

Written late. Aired later. Read the collection.