'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' ObserverJean-BaptisteGrenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-centuryParis as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: asense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Gradually helearns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most sublimeperfumes in France. Yet there is one scent he cannot capture: the scentof an innocent young virgin. In order to perfect his experiments, hemust have this final ingredient, at any cost. A cult internationalbestseller, Perfume is a bewitching, darkly humorous fable of desire, obsession and death.