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Perfume suskind review5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() He survives on the outskirts of society and uses the bare minimum of social interaction in order to get by. ![]() Grenouille graduates from a lowly tanner’s assistant to a perfumer’s apprentice, utilising his skills to create the finest fragrances in Paris. ![]() We learn that he has the most powerful sense of smell of any human, able to differentiate between scents from miles away with ease, including the ability to unravel each tiny dimension and element. There’s something unusual about Grenouille. He is easily overlooked and discarded, yet quietly feared. Throughout childhood, he leads a loveless, friendless and subservient existence. Ultimately orphaned, the baby named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is passed between many different wet nurses and institutions as his “otherness” is immediately noticed: he has no natural odour. It’s 1738 and a baby boy has been born in the middle of a Paris market, surrounded by the stench of rotting fish and corpses. ![]()
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