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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. 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. 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. 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. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.
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Historical fiction, psychological thriller, dark fantasy, coming-of-age, murder mystery, obsession, perfume, scent, olfactory, senses, identity, love, loneliness, 18th century France, Fiction, suspense, France, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Perfumes, Odors, Murderers, Fiction, Parfum (Motion picture)Showing 11 featured editions. View all 103 editions?
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006, Penguin Books, Penguin
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El perfume: Historia de un asesino
2006, Booket, Seix Barral
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Xiang shui: yi ge mou sha fan de gu shi = Das parfum
2005, Shanghai yi wen chu ban she
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7532736202 9787532736201
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Le parfum: histoire d'un meurtrier : roman
2003, Fayard, Livre de Poche
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2253044903 9782253044901
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Perfume: the story of a murderer
2001, Vintage International
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Parfi︠u︡mer: istorii︠a︡ odnogo ubiĭt︠s︡y : roman
1999, Azbuka, Amfora
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5768407022 9785768407025
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Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders
December 31, 1998, Diogenes Verlag AG
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3257016786 9783257016789
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Das Parfum: Die Geschichte Eines Morders
June 1994, Diogenes
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3257228007 9783257228007
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"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."
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