Perfume is set in eighteenth-century France and tells an extravagant story of a man possessed with a magical sense of …

After Grenouille leaves the town of Grasse, where he has caused so much death and suffering, his case is officially …

In the novel’s climatic scene, just as Grenouille is about to be executed, he uses the perfume he’s created to …

Grenouille becomes, toward the end of the novel, a kind of olfactory vampire, killing young women to rob them of …

When Grenouille emerges from his self-imposed seven-year exile, he is brought to the attention of the marquis de La Taillade-Espinasse, …

Grenouille is introduced as “one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of …

Some reviewers have claimed that the Süskind’s writing in Perfume is “verbose and theatrical, ” while others have described it …

The narrator remarks, “Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive …

The perfumer Baldini initially regards Grenouille with contempt. He explains, “Whatever the art or whatever the craft—and make a note …