"Doofenshmirtz dressed as a perfumer!"

A tall, slouching man, dressed as a woman, appears to try his hardest to sell a particular bottle of perfume to the female customers at the perfume department. It's obvious that he was a man, but the guy seems under the impression that his cosplay is a perfect disguise. Because his accompanying large robot was convinced.

This man was a weirdo.

As the evil jingle written above already has told, this is Dr. Doofenshmirtz, an evil scientist that usually looks like a pharmacist, and also Perry's nemesis and target (and proud of it!). It shouldn't be a shocker that the current shtick he's doing is part of another evil scheme put together in order to take over the Tri-State Area, like many of his other plans. And of course, there has to be at least one detail that made no sense: why go all the way to the Dimmsdale Mall when you can just perform this scheme at the Googolplex Mall back in Danville?

Right now, Veronica seems to have arrived at the perfume department at the mall, still wondering where Trixie is right now. Seems like this will be Doof's guinea pi- uh, customer, for today.

The totally-a-perfumer scientist headed right towards the blonde and greeted:

"Hello, miss! Looking for some nice smelling perfume, I see?"

Veronica was speechless out of shock: a slouching, ugly man dressed as a woman ran straight towards her, and is now literally in her face. If she were honest, she felt violated, but instead of making a scene, she tried to play along and said: "Uh, yeah... Heh..."

"Oh, that's good", Doof continued, "Because we just released this totally new flavor of perfume! I can't tell you what it is, but you should try it! It smells amaziiiiiiiiing!"

Veronica awkwardly responded: "Umm, no thanks... I uh, I'll just take the regular", and ran off to an aisle very far away from Doof.

"Aw nuts", Doofenshmirtz exclaimed. "That's the third customer that ran away from me instead of trying out this perfume." He then turned to a very short-looking valley girl (with a beak, no less) that wasn't there before, and continued his rant: "I mean, she didn't even wanna TRY the perfume. What am I doing wrong here?"

Then Doofenshmirtz realized the short stature of the girl he's talking to. "Say, you're awfully short for a preteen. What kinda valley girl are you anyway?"

In response, the girl took off "her" wig, revealing it was a platypus all along.

"...a platypus valley girl?"

Obviously, Doofenshmirtz needed another hint, so the platypus took out an all-too-familiar fedora and placed it on his head. Now the penny has dropped.

"PERRY THE PLATYPUS VALLEY GIRL?!"

Doof shifted his eyes around before coming closer to his nemesis and asking: "Uh, could we meet in private? I'd love to tell you my latest evil scheme, but I don't want to drag too much attention."

Perry rolled his eyes. Sure, as if yelling the name of your nemesis through the entire perfume department already didn't do that.

So Perry followed Doofenshmirtz outside of the perfume department, into an unusually large, but cluttered closet. In there, the scientist took off his perfumer clothes, revealing his iconic labcoat and turtleneck, and continued:

"You see, Perry the Platypus, a few days ago", (flashback ensues) "I was at the park. I was unusually in need for happiness that day, so I smelled at some flowers. But the thought of smelling actually gave me a great idea to take over the Tri-State Area: an odor that lets the smeller do whatever I want! So I ditched that flower thing and immediately went back to my lab to work on it. And after a few long days and long nights, I finally finished the prototype!" Flashback ends, and Doofenshmirtz showed Perry the bottle he was holding.

"This little bottle here contains a liquid that, when sprayed on or smelled at by any valley girl, will put them under my control, and help me take over the Tri-State Area. I call it: Eau de Inator!"

Perry made a very deadpan, disapproving face. Calling a bit of liquid an Inator was stretching it.

Doofenshmirtz knew exactly what Perry meant with that face and retorted: "It just felt a bit weird to me to not end an invention with 'inator', alright? Sheesh!"

"Anyway", he continued, "With this, I'll be able to make an army of valley girls, forcing Danville's city hall to appoint their leadership to me and making me the ruler of the Tri-State Area. I only need to test it out, and once it works", Doof removes a tablecloth from, revealing his robot man Norm, with a cauldron beside it, "I'll let Norm know to mass-produce it, so my evil scheme can go in full effect!"

Doof thought a bit and then continued: "I bet you might be wondering 'Why go all the way to Dimmsdale, instead of keeping this scheme in Danville?' Well, believe it or not, Perry the Platypus, I actually did try to keep it in Danville", another flashback ensues, "so I went with the same whole ordeal as here to the perfume department of Googolplex Mall, already setting things up as I realized: there are no valley girls in Danville!"

Doofenshmirtz scratched his neck as he said: "I probably shouldn't have made the formula work strictly on a specific stereotype. I thought 'valley girls use perfume all the time, so a perfume should attract them, thus advancing my scheme', but in retrospect, it makes things complicated. Heh..."

Doof continued: "Anyway, Dimmsdale is chock full of stereotypes! That includes loads of valley girls! So that's why I went to this mall in the end."

Awkward silence followed. Doof broke the silence by dressing up as a perfumer again and telling Perry: "Aaaaanyway, I probably should get going with the perfume selling. See you later."

As Doofenshmirtz reached the door of the large closet, however, he turned to Perry and said: "Oh, and by the way, you're trapped." At the same time, he kicked down a mop, causing a lot of buckets, cloth, shelves and even bubble wrap to fall, trapping the platypus in the end. "Can you believe I almost forgot to trap you, Perry the Platypus? I hope you like this makeshift trap. Bye!"

Doof closed the door and went back to the perfume department.

Perry, stuck in cloth and buckets, glared at Norm, waiting with his cauldron. Norm then turned his head and exclaimed in his usually silly demeanor: "I'M ACCOMPANYING YOU."

How will Perry get out of this nastiness?