François finally came to Radio 1
The perfume project had reached the point where a joke needed an actual expert.
Helen had connected the programme with François, the professional “nose” who worked with fragrance.
Scott and Chris had built him up for days as somebody with almost superhuman smelling ability.
They wanted to create a scent which represented the show.
Suggestions collected from listeners included new tennis balls and other smells connected with the programme’s history.
François now had to work out what was usable.
Could a nose smell fear?
Scott naturally wanted to test the limits of the job.
If François could identify and assess tiny fragrance notes, could he smell emotion?
Specifically, could he smell fear?
The show treated him like a human lie detector and began presenting smells and situations for analysis.
François explained the professional side of fragrance while Scott and Chris kept trying to turn it into a supernatural power.
The useful part was that their celebrity-perfume project was now genuinely progressing.
A real formulation could be created.
Zoe’s husband stole her fourth finger
The Monday relationship blowouts also returned.
Listener Zoe was furious because her husband had done something which, described without context, sounded medically alarming.
He had “stolen her fourth finger”.
The argument involved the ordinary petty behaviour couples could somehow transform into a full weekend row.
Scott loved the phrasing because it sounded far more dramatic than the domestic reality.
As usual, the feature allowed somebody to publicly vent before deciding whether the argument still mattered by Monday afternoon.
Producer Will finally reached up
The S Club 7 lyric debate had not entirely died.
Producer Will was pushed into singing the controversial version of “Reach”, complete with the forbidden up.
Several weeks earlier, thousands of Chichester students had started the whole thing.
By the end of October, Radio 1 staff were still being forced to take sides.
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