Patrick Süskind

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille es, gracias a su prodigioso sentido del olfato, el mejor elaborador de perfumes de todos los tiempos. Pero es un ser grotesco, deforme y repulsivo a los ojos de las mujeres. Como venganza a tanta ofensa sufrida a causa de su aspecto físico, elabora un raro perfume que subyuga la voluntad de quien lo huele. Así, Jean-Baptiste consigue el favor de las damas de la alta sociedad y el dominio de los poderosos. Existe un único...

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born under his mother's table at the fish market, onto a pile of muddy fish guts, establishing from the beginning his repulsion for putrid scents. A childhood of neglect and, later, a job at a tannery, encourage Jean-Baptiste to develop his olfactory sense rather than his verbal skills. An opportunity to prove his worth to Parisian perfumist Giuseppe Baldini results in his immediate hire into a promising new career. His...