Perfume
Fiction
Vintage Books
2001
255
Synopsis
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human’s. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet, there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. And, to get it, he must kill. And kill. And kill…
A review will be posted here shortly.
This month’s book was picked by The Connoisseur 
Score awarded by Bibliofemme: 3 out of 5
What the other femmes had to say
“Really this is a sick little story with a core concept as distasteful as its central character, but it’s all cleverly masked in a fragrant cloud of page-turning readability.” 3/5
“Nicely written though at times a little bit too ‘wordy’. I still don’t know if I enjoyed the book, it was quite dark, but it has stayed with me weeks after reading it
so that must a good sign!” 3/5
