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Suskind patrick6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Immediately after his birth, which happens in a public market, his mother leaves him to die just as she did with her previous four children. It’s split into four sections, each dealing with a different period in Grenouille’s life.įrom the very first chapter, which details Grenouille’s birth, the book is dark and gruesome. Perfume (German: Das Parfum) is a historical fantasy novel set in eighteenth-century France and it charts the life of a man, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who was born with an exceptional sense of smell. I honestly tried to make this review spoiler-free but I couldn’t so here is your warning: this review contains spoilers. Oh, what a strange, strange book this was. 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 fresh-cut wood. ![]() As a boy, he lives to decipher the odours of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. Summary: In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift: an absolute sense of smell. Genre: Historical fiction / Fantasy / Mystery ![]()
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