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Jean baptiste grenouille book6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. 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. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meanings that scents may have. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name-in contrast to the names of. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. ![]() 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. book form in the spring of 1985, remained on the German best-seller. 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 Süskind’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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