Quote #4958
To attract men, I wear a perfume called New Car Interior.
Rita Rudner
About This Quote
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Interpretation
Rudner’s line is a compact piece of observational comedy that flips the usual logic of seduction. Instead of choosing a traditionally “feminine” fragrance, the speaker adopts an absurdly specific, consumerist scent—“New Car Interior”—to attract men, implying that status objects and the fantasies attached to them can be more alluring than romance itself. The joke also satirizes marketing and gender stereotypes: it treats attraction as something that can be engineered through branding, while poking fun at the idea that men are irresistibly drawn to cars (or what cars symbolize). The deadpan specificity of the perfume name heightens the incongruity and delivers the punch.




