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Spritzee is a pink, avian Pokémon. Most of its face is taken up by its white, slightly curved beak, which slightly resembles a plague doctor's mask. It has red-orange eyes with long black lashes. On top of its head is a curly tuft of feathers and it has small wings. Its feet are light purple with no visible digits.
Spritzee emits a scent that varies based on its diet and enraptures those around it using a scent pouch. In the past, royal ladies carried Spritzee with them instead of using perfume.
Spritzee can be seen as a parallel to Swirlix. Both are Generation VIFairy-type Pokémon that are version-exclusives of Pokémon X and Y, with Spritzee being exclusive to Y, and Swirlix to X, both have signature Abilities that affect themselves as well as their allies, and both evolve when traded holding a certain item.
Spritzee seems to be based on a small bird, sharing some traits with hummingbirds. It also seems to be related to different kinds of cosmetics: its fluffy body may be based on powder puffs or other cosmetics applicators, while its shape seems to reference different aspects and parts of a perfume bottle.
Its perfumes, therapeutic aspects, and avian qualities may indicate that Spritzee and Aromatisse are based on plague doctors, who used various perfumes held in birdlike masks to drown out the scent of the plague and deceased.
The fact that it evolves into its human-like evolution is possibly a reference to Gunnhild, a mythological Norwegian queen that shapeshifts into a bird.
Name origin
Spritzee is from spritz (a spray of liquid) and Fee (fairy in German and Dutch).
Shushupu may be from プシュー pushū (onomatopoeia for spraying).
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