It's unlike anything you've read or heard. I do implore you to read about the weirdest virgin to ever grace the page.This is an unusual, highly entertaining story. Maybe my tastes have changed, maybe the difficult times I've been going through has made reading fiction pretty passe to me. I think if I had read this a few years ago, I'd have gone pretty apeshit over it. I liked the commentary of human sexuality, though it bordered on the pedophilic in more ways than made me comfortable. I loved the ending to the murder drama: It was deliciously sickening. Shoot me already.īits of this were really great. His psychopathy renders him stilted he is unerring in all goals, unchanging in all ways. Grenouille does not change as a character, as a man. It's potentially fascinating in a psychological way, except it's not much explored, and really, what is there to say about a psychopath? They care for no one, not even themselves.
Grenouille (frog! get it?) is first and foremost, a psychopath. It ain't coming out any other way than pure gold. But it's like Anne Rice trying to describe a man popping a squat. Granted, Süskind tries to write about how terrible that century was for people, how hard and tireless and bleak it was. Everything is vaguely supernatural, but solidly couched in the oh-so-decadent 18th century. You've got an 18th century European setting, an almost vampiric protagonist, and the ever-present, sexy sexy sense of smell. If I had to give you a vibe of what this novel offers, I'd place this solidly in the 1980s-Gothic milieu it came from. I'm willing to beg a perfumer to have me try my lot in discerning.īut. My roommates make me smell their milk, and god damn, I can tell it's bad days before them. My sense of smell is the strongest of them all for me. The moment I get a vaccine, I'm wearing that shit out to every horrid first date I can in rapturous glee.
Like, I own probably $1,000 worth of high end perfumes. I should have liked this way more than I did.
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