Perfume - Patrick Sskind

'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' Observer

Jean-Baptiste
Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century
Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a
sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Gradually he
learns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most sublime
perfumes in France. Yet there is one scent he cannot capture: the scent
of an innocent young virgin. In order to perfect his experiments, he
must have this final ingredient, at any cost. A cult international
bestseller, Perfume is a bewitching, darkly humorous fable of desire, obsession and death.