Perfume by Patrick Sskind

Perfume by Patrick SskindJean Baptiste Grenouille, born in a Parisian slum and abandoned on the streets, discovers he has an extraordinary near superhuman sense of smell. As he sniffs his way across France, this gift is exploited by Grenouille to make the world's most marvellous perfumes. Patrick S skind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was

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