Patrick Süskind : Perfume. The Story of a Murderer

By Małgorzata Mikos - 8.6.17


       Every thing, every person, every place - everything has its own, unique and remarkable smell. Every memory is a fragrance. The life is a fragrance, an amazing palette of fragrances.
    What will you do with it? 


     Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is an unique and original story about life and death, about the gift and the curse, about the attempt to keep it what's impossible and fleeting - fragrance of world.

     Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is the story of a serial killer, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille - a man born with the ability to smell every little thing in the world, but who has no scent of his own. The place of action, 18th century France, is full of images, fragrances and ideas to create something new, something beautiful.
    Grenouille is using his nose as the compass and the map to identify each layer of fragrance existing in the world. Streets, plants, fabrics, furniture, people - he can deconstruct even the most complex aromas and re-experience, or invent new experiences by combining, in his mind, fragrances that have never before been layered with one another. He is like the god of fragrances.
     One day Jean-Baptiste is discovering something new, unusual - fragrance which is bewitching and enslaving. In a flash this smell becomes everything what he lives for and he does whatever he must to obtain it. He will do everything, even kill, to have this fragrance.

     Who will be next?
       What smell has a death?
          How this game will end?
            What will happen on sweaty streets of 18th century France?


Why you should read it

         Because this book, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, is something different. This is a story full of dark secrets of human mind and wild desire. This book has a perfect the end, it's surprising and strong. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is what the man is afraid the most of.


Things to look out for

      The dark side of the soul and mind of the man - how does it look like? What is worse - death for idealistic reasons or simple life? What a man can do to get what he wants?


The last word about the book

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a novel full of extreme emotions and with incredibly and surprising fragments with remarkable the end. It's good to read it when you have more than five seconds because you need some time to think about the words inside the book.

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