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  2. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer tells the tale of an 18th-century French orphan, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who is born with an exceptional sense of smell but is rejected by society.

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    Jean-Baptiste Grenouilleis born in Paris, France, to a poor mother who tries to abandon him in a public market. After confessing to multiple infanticides, his mother is sentenced to death. Grenouille is passed around to various wet nurses, none of whom wish to continue caring for him. Finally he is baptized and given to a new wet nurse, Jeanne Buss...

    Grenouille feels relief upon leaving Paris. He realizes he longed to escape the city's people. Although he intends to travel to the perfume capital of Grasse, he ends up on a remote mountain. He finds a cave to sleep in and spends his days in darkness. In the cave he dreams about all the smells he has ever encountered and of building an empire in w...

    Grenouille leaves the town to travel to Grasse, the perfume capital. While wandering the streets of Grasse, he detects an exquisite scent he has never smelled before. It reminds him of the girl he murdered in Paris. He can tell that this scent, too, comes from a young girl. Grenouille wishes to possess the girl's scent, but he knows he cannot murde...

    Grenouille returns to Paris, feeling defeated. He goes straight to the cemetery where thieves and murderers gather after dark. No one notices him until he opens his perfume and douses himself with it. Then the crowd is overcome, tearing off his clothes, hair, and skin, and devouring him.

  3. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 2006 period psychological thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer, who cowrote the screenplay with Andrew Birkin and Bernd Eichinger, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Patrick Süskind.

  4. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Summary. Grenouille is born to a fishwife mother in Paris in the early eighteenth century. He is delivered behind his mother's fish stall and is immediately abandoned to die. The baby, who strangely has no scent, cries out and is saved by onlookers.

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  5. Synopsis. The film begins with the sentencing of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw), a notorious murderer. Between the reading of the sentence and the execution, the story of his life is told in flashback, beginning with his abandonment at birth in a French fish market.

  6. The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him. Grenouille becomes a perfumer but later becomes involved in murder when he encounters a young girl with an unsurpassed wondrous scent.

  7. Feb 26, 1985 · Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel (published originally in German as Das Parfum) by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meaning that scents may have.

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