Literary Fiction

Perfume

by Patrick Süskind

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille possesses an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell so acute he can capture and distill the very essence of things. Born scentless himself, he becomes obsessed with creating the ultimate perfume, pursuing beauty to murderous extremes in eighteenth-century France. Süskind's darkly sensual novel is a meditation on obsession, artistry, and monstrosity.

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