I thought you said this was a dog(?)
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She may smell better - until she gets wet again, but I've never met the dog who wouldn't rather smell like the nearest mud puddle or something disgusting to roll in - it's like perfume to their noses. Dogs don't really think in terms of smelling "good" or "bad"; while there are definitely somethings they don't like the smell of (like skunk spray), dogs think in terms of things that smell different than what they usually, or are used to, smelling like. What makes it seem like her loving to be clean is all the added attention, fussing, & petting she gets for not smelling like a dog.
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Not that it make a whiff of difference if everybody gets what they want, right?

For the past 3 dogs and quarter century, we've been using something called Black Pearl (formerly Black-Out) for black/dark colored pets (1 black cat, 1 tri-color Border Collie, 2 dark Labs) that smells like... Boysenberry(?) The BC didn't mind, but the Labbies usually spend the first night trying to lick themselves back to smelling like dogs again. Guess I can't blame them for that. It does make their coats look GREAT (extra shiny, and Labbie coats are blindingly shiny to begin with). Oatmeal probably does the same thing, but I'm not sure about a dog that smells like oatmeal....
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(Maple syrup?)

We're catsitting over the long weekend (4 cats in one immense empty house). Owner is a vet, so she tends to take in some of the less-desirable kitties (congenital health problems). Two of these are kittens; one has very cloudy eyes, so may be mostly blind. We're supposed to feed the 2 kittens in a separate room so they don't eat the older cats' food (which the older cats seem willing to allow) but we haven't even seen 3 of them in 2 days, which makes separation feeding difficult. We're not too concerned, as the bowls are always empty and the sandboxes full....

Doc