Perfume is a novel written by the German historian and screenwriter Patrick Süskind, which narrates the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a man with a special quality: a prodigious sense of smell. With the ability to achieve great detail in the description of everything included in the story.
To be able to have the ability to achieve great detail in the description of everything you include in the story is the power of perfume.
Süskind manages to transport the reader to the smelly France of the thirteenth century, to make him feel fear, nerves, joy and even anger; besides generating in himself, anxieties to perceive the world of smells so characteristic, captured throughout the story.
In this way Patrick Süskind creates this bestseller narrated in third person through 51 chapters and undoubtedly a masterpiece about the history of smells.
The protagonist of this story, throughout his life, was always obsessed with his lack of smell, which led him to despair to create it and to be able to love and be loved; since from his birth he represented nothing more than a hindrance and a punishment for those around him.
The smell of a woman led him to love, but when he realized that this smell faded over time he fell into such despair as to keep the dream of preserving the smells.
Thus he finds himself an apprentice perfumer with the faithful idea of learning techniques to achieve his longing.
Throughout the narrative, Grenouille learns techniques to preserve the smells, initially of flowers and objects, and later of animals and people, which will be his greatest learning and his condemnation.
With the intention of creating the perfect perfume, the young man collects the perfume of 25 young women, all of them beautiful and all killed in the same way, with a sharp blow to the back of the head, but the last one too important for the protagonist, and with which he managed to complete his masterpiece.
