Unlike other films by John Waters, Polyester really stinks. But then again, Waters's films, like Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living, always bring us to our senses; this one adds the olfactory to sight and sound. Polyester's accompanying scratch-and-sniff card, called Odorama by its makers, is an homage to an earlier stinker from 1960, Scent of Mystery, the first and only feature film to pump actual aromas into the auditorium. The odorific card, a collection of ten scents, isn't just some cheap add-on, but bonds us to the nasally obsessed Francine Fishpaw (played with rotund resonance by Divine), mock-tragic matriarch of the Fishpaw clan, which includes daddy Elmer, proprietor of a porn theater; son Dexter, a foot fetishist; and sis Lulu, who loves to shake that thang for the boys. With her hypersensitive schnoz, Francine can smell trouble, among other things, a mile away. And we get to join her in a musty melange of malodors. If scent number one is roses, what is number two?