Wow! The film really got me in all uppity and then afterwards, depression. It was amazing and I can't wait to get hold of the book. It tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille who was an olfactory genius whose nose knows all the best smells in the world. Murdering virgins and preserving their scents (pheromones, basically) is no easy task. But driven by a great desire to preserve the fleeting smell of everything, Grenouille went on with his craft (making perfumes out of humans). His experience would later teach him that he could enslave the whole world if he wanted to but... "there was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else. So, to hell with it he thought. To hell with the world. With the perfume. With himself." <sigh> What a tragedy. :(((((
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