Perfume Summary
Patrick Süskind

Everything you need to understand or teach Perfume by Patrick Süskind.

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Perfume Summary

Perfume is the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a man born into eighteenth-century France with a superhuman sense of smell, but with no personal odor of his own. He is orphaned at birth, and grows up without love to become a cold and calculating murderer. He is motivated in his crime by a desire to possess the scent of a young woman named Laure Richis, which he intends to steal using the...

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