I saw the movie version of this novel when it came out and I don’t remember a thing about it. That was good because it meant I enjoyed the book a lot more. We are in the pre-revolution France and there’s a baby born who has no scent. We are told emphatically that his poop still smells, but rather that he exudes no scent otherwise. This will come up later as it turns out that the tradeoff for this is the very fine-tuned ability to […]
Perfume – Patrick Suskind (1985)
Perfume by Suskind