In August 1990, Kurt Cobain and Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill got drunk and spray-painted "God is gay" on the walls of a fake abortion clinic in Olympia, Washington. Back at Cobain's place, Hanna scrawled "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on his bedroom wall in marker. She'd been at the grocery store earlier with Cobain's ex-girlfriend Tobi Vail, whose brand of deodorant was Teen Spirit, and the line was stuck in her head. Six months later, Cobain called Hanna and asked if he could use it. He had no idea Teen Spirit was a deodorant.