Between the beautiful flowering and scent of amaranth, lavender, acadia and the most precious fumes that have ever been felt lie finds the story of a gifted boy - murderer of the heart. The novel “Perfume” by Patrick Süskind was published in 1985 and is, I believe, one of the most imaginative and eccentric story ideas I have ever read. This multi-genre novel is one of the most successful German publications of the 20th century, along with the novels of Erich Maria Remarque and about twenty years later – in 2006, Tom Tykwer adapted Grenouille's story for film. For a brief overview of the plot – the story is based in Paris in the 18th century, where an orphan named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille grows up. For a long time he does not learn to speak and although he does not have a natural smell of his own, it is enough for him to smell the environment and let himself be invaded by all the smells of the world. The reason it is so difficult for him to harmonize with people or at least blend in properly is due to his remarkable and unusually keen sense of smell - and it is not an abnormal sign for him to detect smells in things that ordinary people would detect. I don't think I have a smell at all. As Grenouille trains to become a perfumer, he is determined to create the utopian perfume that could put him in God's place. Nevertheless, the "perfect perfume" in his eyes is created from the scents of thirteen virginal girls since this is the only way to preserve and obtain their natural scents. Patrick Süskind, the author of this exceptional novel, reveals the story little by little without losing control of the intense and heightened thoughts, feelings and expressions of his protagonist Grenouille, while not forgetting to fill the story with 'huge descriptions of perfumes and various smells...... middle of paper ...... believe the film is an excellent complement to the book, even with its imperfections, and I have certainly seen some good adaptations worst and misleading of a book. Personally, I have come across some beautiful lines and phrases from "Perfume" that could be used as lovely everyday quotes and most my copy of the book probably has more highlighted pages than plain pages, simply because I can connect these underlined quotes to a period of my life, and very often, I want to read certain pages again and again for inspiration or simply to understand. that delicious feeling and goosebumps and the same goes for the movie – I was able to find quotes that weren't from the book just because it lacked monologues and dialogues. In the film there were moments that you can watch again and again without getting bored of either the acting or the same placement..