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Perfume: story of a murderer...?
i read the novel and am trying to figure out what the significance of Grenouille killing virgins is. i know they are pure and untainted by the world by why virgins and why were the too most important virgins red haired??
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- Molly TLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Grenouille had a VERY sensitive nose, and he was on a quest to develop The Perfect Scent. It's been a few years since I read the book, but he probably picked up a certain special Something coming from pure red-headed virgins that he wanted to experiment with and maybe try to save or duplicate for his Ultimate Scent.
- karmagrl76Lv 41 decade ago
Set in 18th century France, Perfume relates the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, "one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages".
Born lacking a personal odour (a fact other people find disquieting) but endowed with an incomparable sense of smell, he apprentices himself to a perfumer and becomes obsessed with procuring the perfect scent that will make him fully human. In the process, he creates perfumes—presumably based on pheromones—that powerfully manipulate human emotions, murdering 25 girls to take their scent.
The book features detailed descriptions of the techniques of scent extraction such as maceration and enfleurage.
- 1 decade ago
i only saw the movie but i thought he killed the women so he could preserve their sent?
