Perfume: The Story of a Murderer By: Claudette Perfume: The
Story of a Murderer By: Claudette Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
By: Claudette He lived to find beauty. He killed to possess
it.
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In eighteenth century France, Jean Baptiste Grenouille, a
charity orphan with an extraordinary olfactory sense is born in the
fish market in Paris, on July 17, 1738. He becomes obsessed with
the idea of preserving the human scent of beautiful young girls.
His misguided infatuation leads him on a murderous quest to create
the perfect perfume, but at the end of it all, he realizes that
nothing can supplant human companionship or suffice for love.
Lonely and heartbroken, Jean Baptiste mourns the deaths of all of
his victims, especially that of a shy servant girl and a beautiful
young aristocrat Laura Richis. Plot
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Characters Jean-Baptiste Grenouille Grenouille's mother Father
Terrier Madame Gaillard Children at the Boarding House Grimal The
Girl with the Plums Giuseppe Baldini Chnier Plissier
Taillade-Espinasse Madame Arnulfi Dominique Druot Antoine Richis
Laure Richis
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Themes Black humor Emotionally or mentally inadequate people
Hatred of humanity Grenouille as agent of death Children as
subhuman Theory of the sovereignty of scent Seeing others' lives as
mere snippets
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Settings Paris, France Fish Market Orphanage Tannery Ponte Au
Change Perfume Shop Massif Central Montpellier Grasse
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Victims The Girl with the Plums The prostitute Lavender Picker
The Twins Laure 19 other girls
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Methods Memorization Distillation Hot enfleurage Cold
enfleurage
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Date of Birth: March 26, 1949 in Ambach in Germany to the late
Wilhelm Emanuel Sskind, a journalist and writer on language.
Patrick Sskind studied Medieval and Modern History at the
University of Munich and Aix-en-Provence between 1968 and 1974. in
Munich and was a writer for television before he wrote Perfume. His
second novel, The Pigeon, later adapted as a play, was first staged
at the BAC Theatre in London in May 1993. His play, The Double-Bass
was first staged in Munich in 1981 and has since become one of the
most performed plays in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. His
novella, The Story of Mr Sommer, was published in 1992 and like
Perfume has been a huge success all over the world. Sskind resides
almost anonymously in Munich. He has refused to give any interviews
for over twenty years. Patrick Sskind
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Perfume Starring: Birgit Minichmayr: Grenouilles mother Ben
Whishaw: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille Sian Thomas: Madame Gaillard Sam
Douglas: Grimal Jaume Montan: Plissier Karoline Herfurth: The Plum
Girl Dustin Hoffman: Baldini Dora Romano: Baldinis wife Rachel
Hurd-Wood: Laure Richis Alan Rickman: Antoine Richis Paul Berrondo:
Druot Released in Europe in 2006 and 2007 in America. Directed by:
Tom Tykwer Budget: cinquante million Gross: $132,180,323
(Worldwide)
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Fun Facts Quotes When they finally did dare it, at first with
stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were
uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of
love. - Narrator Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than
that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. Baldini The cry that
followed his birth, the cry with which he had brought himself to
people's attention and his mother to the gallows, was not an
instinctive cry for sympathy and love. That cry, emitted upon
careful consideration, one might almost say upon mature
consideration, was the newborn's decision against love and
nevertheless for life.- Narrator We are familiar with people who
seek out solitude: penitents, failures, saints, or prophets. -
Narrator
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Fun Facts More than 12 million copies have been sold and
translated into 46 languages. This novel was on the bestselling
list of the German weekly news magazine "Der Spiegel" for nine
years. Some editions of Perfume have as their cover image Antoine
Watteau's painting Jupiter and Antiope, which depicts a murdered
woman. 51 chapters total. Patrick Sskind refuses the literary world
largely is almost no interviews, does not appear in public and
there are hardly any photos of him. Only three photos are found of
him on the internet.
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A film adaption, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, co-written
and directed by Tom Tykwer, premiered in Germany on September 14 th
2006. A Russian musical adaptation of the novel, Perfumer,
premiered on December 5 th 2010 in Moscow. The song "Scentless
Apprentice", by the American band Nirvana, was inspired by Perfume.
The band's lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain often described
the novel as one of his favorite books. The song "Herr Spiegelmann"
from the Portuguese metal band Moonspell contains an excerpt from
the book. The song "Red Head Girl" by French duo Air is inspired by
Perfume. The song You smell so good by German band Rammstein was
inspired by the book, which is the lead singer's favorite book.
Marilyn Manson credits the novel as one of the inspirations behind
the title of his second album, Smells like Children. The episode
Sense Memory" of the television show Criminal Minds was inspired by
the novel. The song "Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met)" by
American band Panic! At The Disco is inspired by Perfume. In 2006,
French fashion designer Thierry Mugler created a perfume coffret
that held fifteen perfumes that were based on the movie Perfume.
The coffret cost sept cent dollars. Adaptions
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Sskind, Patrick. Perfume. Trans. John E. Woods. New York:
Vintage International, 1986. Gradesaver.com 1999-2011 GradeSaver
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