In the slums of eighteenth-century France, Jean Baptiste Grenouille is born with the sublime gift of an absolute sense of smell and one day, he catches the scent of a beautiful young virgin?a scent that drives him to the terrifying quest of creating the ""ultimate perfume." "[...]

Patrick Suskind's "Perfume" is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris. 'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his[...]

This is the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of Jonathan Noel. Set in Paris, it reveals the tensions that can push such a person to the brink of insanity. Patrick Suskind has also written "Perfume", "The Story of Mr Sommer" and a play, "The Double Bass".[...]

Dans la France du XVIIIe si?cle, l'histoire abominable et drolatique de Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, n? sans odeur mais dot? d'un flair infaillible. Un tour de force litt?raire et un best-seller mondial.[...]

The year is 1738; the place, Paris. A baby is born under a fish-monger's bloody table in a marketplace, and abandoned. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something in the aura of the tiny infant that is unsettling. No one will look after him; he is somehow too dem[...]