IL026: Pokémon Scent-sation!

&nbsp '''Pokémon Scent-sation! '(Japanese: エリカとクサイハナ Erika and Gloom'') is the 26th episode of the Pokémon anime and of Pokémon: Inidgo League.

Synopsis
Ash, Misty, and Brock have finally arrived in Celadon City. where Ash will earn his 5th gym badge. After being rudley told by Erika, the gym leader, that he cannot battle her due to his hatred of perfume, Team Rocket disguises him as a girl named Ashley. This, as Ash does not know, is all part of Team Rocket's plan to steal perfume from the gym. When Ash went inot the gym in his disguise, Pikachu recognized him and his identity was revealed. He ws allowed to battle anayway, and earned his fifth badge.

Team Rocket's plan to steal the perfumedid not succeed, and they only acquired "Essence of Gloom," a very stinky perfume from Erika's Gloom.