Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Perfume

Why does Grenouille kill to preserve scent?

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Grenouille has an extraordinary power to discern odors. Ironically he has no scent himself. He has an obsession with collecting smells, especially of women. Smothering a girl to death, he drinks her scent in. After that he cannot get enough of female scent.

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