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lang: eng lang: ger lang: 263 p Summary: In the slums of eighteenth-century France, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift - an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer, but Grenouille is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the ultimate perfume - the scent of a beautiful young virgin