Perfume

There is no obvious depression, only a vague sense of discomfort, and no other way, other than death, can be thought of to end the protagonist's absurd life. If seeking benevolence and gaining benevolence makes people happy, then the life of everyone in this book seems to be a state of seeing heaven right in front of them, but always missing out. Everything seems to happen naturally. The protagonist seems to be born to punish the world. His existence seems to be a human form condensed from the most foul-smelling things in the world. He will instinctively pursue and devour beauty. Generally speaking, I haven't thought about this story in too much detail. Based on the discomfort this book gave me, I probably won't be able to read it again. Although the author's writing style is very delicate and it is worth reading again.

The writing style is undoubtedly master-level. The description of the fragrance and taste is so specific, rich, magical, and... Really shocking. It's a pity that the male protagonist with super powers is a tragedy from birth to death.

Maybe it's because I've been reading Greek mythology recently, and the more I read, the more I feel that Grenouille is like the incarnation of Dionysus, the god of wine, walking on earth. Dionysus will punish all those who disrespect him, and all those who have ill intentions towards Grenouille will die; Dionysus can induce people's hallucinations and make people fall into ecstasy. After Grenouille dripped perfume, the people at the execution scene fell into a state of ecstasy (in fact, the book does say that the execution scene became a Dionysian festival); Grenouille finally poured the perfume on himself and allowed people to dismember and eat him. This is also the fate of Dionysus in mythology. In the Mysteries of Orpheus, Dionysus is the son of the God King Zeus and the Queen of the Underworld, Persephone. Out of jealousy, Queen Hera ordered the Titans to dismember Dionysus and eat them. Athena took out the Titan's uneaten heart and gave it to Zeus. In this sense, Grenouille's death is his rebirth. I don't know if the author intended to write like this. He did not portray Grenouille as a vicious person like a murderer, although he is indeed a murderer with heinous crimes. Instead, he gave Grenouille a divinity like the god of wine. This divinity endowed him with morality that transcended ordinary people and pursued his own ideals like a persistent artist, even if he was destroyed by it.

Patrick Suskind takes the sense of smell as the core of his narrative and uses delicate words to transform abstract smells into perceptible images. The stench of Paris VS the purity of a girl's body fragrance breaks through literature's reliance on visual experience. He skillfully uses symbols and allegories to interweave and balance absurdity and reality, constructing a modern allegory about desire, power and alienation of human nature. Grenouille's morbid obsession with scent and pursuit of perfection led to his gradual loss of humanity. He has no body odor but extracts body scent by murdering girls, twisting beauty and violence and combining scent to seek identity, which is a metaphor for the identity dilemma of modern people in society. Working for capital but unable to escape exploitation, the alienation of human nature caused by technical rationality and money power, using perfume to control thousands of people to worship, satirizes the chaos of moral order after the collapse of enlightenment rationality. The ending in which he transforms from the oppressed to the ruler, and is eventually eaten by the masses, hints at the individual's powerlessness and alienation in the collective madness. His tragedy is not only personal madness, but also the epitome of consumerism lost in the expansion of rationality.

I watched it after watching the movie, it was so well written.

After watching the movie, I read this book and intuitively felt the ugliness of human desire.

It's very beautiful, the writing is unique and thought-provoking.

The last time I felt a chill in my back after reading a book was when I read Lao She's "Crescent Moon" for the second time. The author's objective calmness also made people take a breath. A life without body odor was born. From the police officer to the elders of the monastery to the wet nurse, no one was full of love and compassion for this life. This also destined the male protagonist to have hatred and indifference to this world and people from the moment he was born. Here, even the government officials and the clergy were ridiculed for their lack of morality and charity, and wearing a professional mask is no different in this real world. Then Grima of the tannery squeezed the male protagonist's labor force; the perfume manufacturer Baldini appropriated his talent for making perfume to obtain a large amount of money; in order to demonstrate his academic achievements, the Marquis de Latayard showed the male protagonist as an experimental result to everyone, winning a resounding reputation. Here comes another wave of cynicism. The working class exploits pure labor force; the capitalists exploit technological achievements; the elites from well-known families create false academics. Everyone has their own interests and needs, and they want to plunder something from this person who has no body odor but can smell something from others. From the beginning, the male protagonist used his keen sense of smell to capture and understand the world. When he found that he had no smell, he felt that everyone and everything in this tangible world had a specific smell, but he was the only one who had no smell, and others could not feel his existence. He seemed to be an invisible existence, not a specific person. He wants to blend into the world and want others to perceive his presence, so he creates a perfume for himself that makes others feel what kind of person he is. The problem is that such a perfume only lasts for a while and disappears after a while. He discovered a supreme eternity in the girl's body odor, or an eternity that represents the highest beauty and purity of mankind. This smell is fascinating and intoxicating. He wants to capture the body odor of these girls and make it into a perfume to conquer the world. He succeeded and escaped punishment, but he realized that after the perfume dissipated, the real world returned to its original appearance without any changes or differences. Human beings still like to live with original sin, and nothing happens when they smile, as if they have never appeared in this world.

As a long-time reader, I have just read "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind, and this book fits so well with some of my thoughts! While I was reading this book, some of the descriptions I saw actually sparked an idea in my mind for a moment. I once imagined that a girl had a special function. The smell of her sweat could stimulate people's most primitive instincts. Because this special function brought her to the top of life, it also made her fall into hell on earth. I have been thinking about how to develop and express this idea, but unfortunately my writing skills are still lacking. When I read this book, I was surprised that this writer is so amazing. This is a book that I personally think is worth reading a second time, a third time...

This book is special, it shows a world of smell from a unique perspective. I liked Grenouille in the book, and his obsession with smell attracted me. This reminds me of my own focus on certain things, and also makes me understand the persistence required to pursue your dreams. At the same time, the description of various odors in the book also made me feel the author's delicacy. Just like our lives, there are good things and bad smells, but it is these complex smells that make up the real world.

He killed his first love to keep the fragrance, but he didn't know that love is fleeting. He spent his whole life refining eternity, but in the end he only proved that destruction is the only possession. The olfactory genius killed his only love and spent his life trying to piece together the aftertaste of the soul in the corpse. Die for love

His sense of smell is far beyond ordinary people. He is the most outstanding perfume master. The story in this book is very exciting.

The author is very good at describing smells, and writes Grenouille's desire and obsession with smells very thoroughly. We seem to be watching the life of Grenouille, a scent genius. From birth to death, he used his sense of smell to identify things and live. Some of the plots are legendary and ridiculous, taking the importance of smell to the extreme, and Grenouille's ending is an unexpected result, both unexpected and reasonable.

Born in the most smelly place, died in the most fragrant moment.

2026.7.3 Through this cry, the newborn decides to give up love, but to survive. Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but simply to be far away from people. A tick can drop its body to the forest floor, crawl a few millimeters here or there on its six little legs, lie down under the leaves and die, God knows not, and is not worth feeling sorry for. But the tick is stubborn, stubborn, and annoying. It keeps squatting, living, and waiting. It waits until the golden opportunity comes to send an animal to the tree for it to suckle. Then it lost control, let itself fall, gripped the animal's flesh, thrust into it, bit into it... His doubts gradually gave way to increasingly intense spiritual pleasure: he had escaped the abominable hatred! He was really all alone! He is the only one in this world! Most of the fragrance, the soul of the flower as vast as the ocean, always remains in the pot, preserved and dissolved in the slowly solidifying, not-so-pretty off-white grease. Indeed, Grenouille was a tick living alone, a monster, and an unreasonable person. He had never experienced love, and he had never aroused the love of others. But on this March day, he stood beside the city wall of Grasse, in love, and deeply enjoying the happiness of love! Never in his life had he felt so good, so calm, so composed, so at one with himself as he had in these few hours - not even in the mountains - as he sat awake and waiting late at night beside his victim. Those who first felt sympathy and emotion when seeing him were now filled with naked greed; those who first only admired and pursued him were now extremely excited. In fact, He is His own God, and He is a more beautiful God than the God who lives in the church and reeks of the incense of God. He had but to give a hint, and all would renounce their gods and worship him, the great Grenouille. Half an hour later, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille had completely disappeared from the ground, leaving not a single hair behind. This day was like the day Grenouille was born.

Beyond human form

Persistent and crazy person [horror]

A bit of a weird but interesting novel.

Rich and colorful meaning

Perfume is just his obsession to prove his existence, but the real trace of his existence is being noticed and recognized.

It's very interesting and contains many metaphors. I'll read it again.

McQueen Alexander's novel that I read over and over again! I got a lot of clothing inspiration from it. The last scene is like a fairy going away