His obsessive pursuit of new aromas eventually draws him to a scent that is »pure beauty«, making all the other aromas worthless. In the novel / movie Jean-Baptiste Grenouille becomes obsessed with capturing an elusive aroma: the scent of young womanhood. “Pheromones are chemical signals produced by a body to communicate and signal different messages- either for bonding or for sexual signaling.” And the disturbing message of the book is knowing that on some level, our stories may resemble his much more closely than we would like to admit. In fact, many of us live our lives in the knowledge that we each have individual scents, and looking for a perfume to compliment us as we see ourselves can become a huge part of what makes us us. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.The importance of the power of smell is perhaps most evident in our reaction to perfume, which the book uses to highlight our desire to be individuals, to have our own scent and to be unique. 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. An 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.
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