Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
the bargain was short-lived.
Life expectancy in the tannery
was a mere f/ve years
but Jean-Baptiste proved to be
as tough as a resilient bacterium.
He adjusted to his new fate
and became a paragon
of docility and diligence.
Slaved 15, 16 hours a day,
summer and winter.
Gradually he became aware
of a world beyond the tannery,
where a Utopia of unexplored
smells lay in store for him.
Grenouille!
Come with us. I'm taking you
to town for delivery.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
had triumphed.
He was alive
and at last he was
in his element.
He was not choosy.
He did not differentiate between
what are good smells from bad,
at least not yet
He was very greedy.
The goal was to possess everything
the world had to offer in odors.
His only condition being,
that they were new ones.
Thousands upon thousands of odors
formed an invisible gruel
which he dissected into its
Grenouille!
Come on!
Get your ass over here!
by next week. Can you do that?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah, come with me.
What is it called?
"Amor and Psyche", madame.
My latest creation.
May I try it?
If you'll allow me, mademoiselle.
Sheer heaven!
Monsieur Pelissier,
you are truly an artiste.
Please, take them.
I've got far too many.
What do you want?
Want to buy some?
Two for a sou.
Next time you run off like that,
I'll kill you!
That night, he could not sleep.
The intoxicating power of the
girl's scent made it clear to him
why he'd come to his own life
so tenaciously, so savagely.
The purpose of his miserable
existence had a higher destiny.
He would learn
how to preserve scent
lose such sublime beauty.
There were about a dozen
perfumers in Paris in those days.
One of them, the once- celebrated
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