It is the dawning of the Age of Enlightenment in France, of coffeehouses and of reason struggling triumphant over religion.

Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the “ultimate perfume”-the scent of a beautiful young virgin. But Grenouille’s genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. Suskind’s international bestseller a try…Īn acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder. I read the blurb, and though I was a little scared (“realistic” literary fiction can do that to me!), I was also very excited to give Mr. Ana picked Perfume: The Story of a Murderer for me, a literary fiction novel about a man born with a superhuman sense of smell. Why did I read this book: Ana and I decided that we had gone too long without a Dare, so we cracked down.

Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel. Publication Date: 1985 (Germany) / February 2001 (US) Publisher: Diogenes-Verlag (Germany) / Alfred A. Author: Patrick Suskind, Translated by John E.

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