Although Sang Wan has never seen Western perfume in her two lifetimes, she had read about it in a recent notebook novel. It was a joke about someone who, unfamiliar with the goods, got a bottle of Western perfume and tried to pour some out from the small hole to smell it. However, he did not know that the construction of the Western perfume bottle was exquisitely clever, appearing to have a hole but actually, the perfume could not be poured out. Instead, it would spray out evenly like mist when the cap was pressed cleverly. The man tried hard to pour it out for a long time but failed, and became the butt of the joke.
Obviously, Mrs. Zhuang wanted to make a joke out of her too.