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How does the work show motif?

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How is love depicted in the work?

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How does the work show that power is an important aspect of the novel?

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Considering the historical context of 18th Century France, how does the word "genius" in this quote apply to Grenouille?

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Considering the historical context of 18th Century France, how does the word "genius" in this quote apply to Grenouille?

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Grenouille treats the perfume that he acquired from the girl he murdered as a means of power for him to revolutionize the odoriferous world. He recognizes that his exquisite nose and phenomenal memory can discover truths that no one else has found and shed light on matters that had previously been obscure. As the 18th century France brought up the revolutions after the death of King Louis XIV, the atmosphere might have contributed to the revolutionary feelings and desires that Grenouille got after acknowledging his power.

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The Seine River was heavily polluted since the middle ages due to animal and human waste.

Wet Nurses
A woman who breast feeds and cares of another's child. They are employed if the child's mother dies, or if the mother elects or is unable to nurse the child herself.

Role of the Church
The official religion of France at the time was Catholicism. The church had administrative powers.

Socio-Economic State in France 18th Century
Some forms of monetary stability was implemented about 1720. Starting in the late 1730s and early 1740s, ,France's population and economy underwent an important expansion. Rising prices, particularly for agricultural products, were extremely profitable for large landholders. Artisans and tenant farmers also saw wage increases but on the whole they benefited less from the growing economy.

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Chapter 1

pg 3

abominable: causing moral revulsion, very bad or unpleasant

stench: a strong and very unpleasant smell

tannery: a place where animal hides are tanned, the workshop of a tanner

rancid: smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale.

pg 4

fiendish: extremely cruel or unpleasant, devilish

charnel: short for charnel house, associated with death

insurrection: a violent uprising against an authority or a  government

pg 5

tumult: a loud, confused noise, especially one caused by a large mass of people

umbilical: relating to or affecting the navel or umbilical cord

daffodil: a bulbous plant that typically bears bright yellow flowers with a long trumpet-shaped center (corona)

pg 6

decapitate: cut off the head of (a person or animal), attempt to undermine (a group or organization) by removing its leaders

pg 7

eleemosynary: relating to or dependent on charity, charitable

Chapter 2

pg 7

cloister: a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other.

pg 9

alms: money or food given to poor people.

parish: a small administrative district typically having its own church and a priest or pastor.

pg 11

obstinate: stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so.

pg 12

inanity: a nonsensical remark or action

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page 3it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, to wickedness,p3but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent. chapter 2p10“He doesn’t smell at all,”p10“Impossible! It is absolutely impossible for an infant to be possessed by the devil. An infant is Patrick Suskind: «Perfume. The story of a murderer» 6 not yet a human being; it is a prehuman being and does not yet possess a fully developed soul. Which is why it is of no interest to the devil. Can he talk already, perhaps? Does he twitch and jerk? Does he move things about in the room? Does some evil stench come from him?”

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page 3it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, to wickedness,p3but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent. chapter 2p10“He doesn’t smell at all,”p10“Impossible! It is absolutely impossible for an infant to be possessed by the devil. An infant is Patrick Suskind: «Perfume. The story of a murderer» 6 not yet a human being; it is a prehuman being and does not yet possess a fully developed soul. Which is why it is of no interest to the devil. Can he talk already, perhaps? Does he twitch and jerk? Does he move things about in the room? Does some evil stench come from him?”

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Chapter 3
Wasn't it Horace himself who wrote, “The youth is gamy as a buck, the maiden's fragrance blossoms as does the white narcissus...”?—and the Romans knew all about that! The odor of humans is always a fleshy odor—that is, a sinful odor. How could an infant, which does not yet know sin even in its dreams, have an odor? How could it smell?

Chapter 4
But to have made such a modest exit would have demanded a modicum of native civility, and that Grenouille did not possess. He was an abomination from the start. He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and sheer malice.

Chapter 5
With words designating non-smelling objects, with abstract ideas and the like, especially those of an ethical or moral nature, he had the greatest difficulty. He could not retain them, confused them with one another, and even as an adult used them unwillingly and often incorrectly...

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The narrator explains that there is nothing scary about Grenouille, as he was never big, strong, exceptionally ugly, or seemed particularly smart.

One day, Grenouille says the word “wood” for the first time, he closed his eyes and simply smelled the wood for a half hour and got lost in the smell. The experience was confusing and intense, and he muttered "wood" over and over again for the next few days. He has a hard time finding the right words to describe what he smells, this makes him doubt if language makes sense at all.

By age 6, Grenouille has memorized all kinds of different smells and would often disappear for days to smell the meadows and vineyards.

Madame Gaillard starts to believe Grenouille has supernatural powers because of all the qualities he poses such as being able to smell through walls, predict the weather, detect if there are worms in vegetables. She decidess its time for Grenouille to go, however, Saint-Merri stops the payments when he reached age 8 anyway.

Madame Gaillard lets Grenouille work for the tanner Grimal who is always in need of cheap labor to do the most dangerous parts of the job. She knows that Grenouille will likely not survive but does not seem to care.

The narrator then explains how Madame Gaillard tragically died and lost her entire fortune she had made by selling her business.

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Grenouille knows that Monsieur Grimal only values Grenouille's life as long as it's useful to him. At first Monsieur Grimal would lock Grenouille into a closet at night and let him work during the day. He later contracts anthrax, which is usually fatal, but Grenouille survives and is now immune to the disease. This makes him significantly more valuable as a worker, and he's finally allowed a bed and better food.

At the age of 12, Grimal allows Grenouille to have time for himself every week to explore the city. Grenouille uses this opportunity to find new scents around the city of Paris

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Olfactory
The book seems to rely very heavily on the sense of smell.

Magic
The book describes the extreme sense of smell as practically magic.

Anthrax
A raised, itchy bump resembling an insect bite that quickly develops into a painless sore with a black center. Swelling in the sore and nearby lymph glands.

Perfume
Perfume came into its own when Louis XV came to the throne in the 18th century. His court was called "la cour parfumée" (the perfumed court). Madame de Pompadour ordered generous supplies of perfume, and King Louis demanded a different fragrance for his apartment every day. The court of Louis XIV was even named due to the scents which were applied daily not only to the skin but also to clothing, fans and furniture. Perfume substituted for soap and water. The use of perfume in France grew steadily. By the 18th century, aromatic plants were being grown in the Grasse region of France to provide the growing perfume industry with raw materials. Even today, France remains the centre of the European perfume design and trade.

Grenouille's first murder
At the end of the 8th chapter, Grenouille strangled a young girl most probably for her scent.

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Chapter 5
pg 23

furtive: attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive

pg 24

resin: a sticky flammable organic substance, insoluble in water, exuded by some trees and other plants (notably fir and pine)

gorge: a narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it/ eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food

pg 25

fuddle: confuse or stupefy someone, especially with alcohol

olfactory: relating to the sense of smell

amalgam: a mixture or blend

CHAPTER 6

pg 31

infraction: a violation or infringement of a law, agreement, or set of rules.

contumacy: stubborn refusal to obey or comply with authority, especially a court order or summons.

pyre: a heap of combustible material, especially one for burning a corpse as part of a funeral ceremony

pg 32

carcass: the dead body of an animal.

carbuncle: a severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin, typically infected with staphylococcus bacteria.

pg 37
veal: the flesh of a calf, used as food

Chapter 8
pg 37
petard: a small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powered, used to blast down a door or to make a hole in a wall.
pg 38
premonition: a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant
pg 39
myrrh: a fragrant gum resin obtained from certain trees and used, especially in the Near East, in perfumes, medicines, and incense
pg 41
apricot: a juice, soft fruit, resembling a small peach, of an orange-yellow color
insipid: lacking flavor
rancid: smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale.
Chapter 9
epaulet: an ornamental shoulder piece on an item of clothing, typically on the coat or jacket of a military uniform
sumptuous: splendid and expensive looking

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Grenouille's universe of the encompassing neighborhoods is a perfect world of fragrance. He delights in the human and creature smells and can analyze the blend of scents into individual aromas, which gives him colossal bliss. He frequently stands and trusts that an intriguing fragrance will pass his nose, and after that tails it to its source. When he is done smelling the roads, he goes to the market of Les Halles, the clamor of which he can involvement through fragrance notwithstanding when it is vacant. From the west comes the aroma of the ocean, which Grenouille finds gigantically brilliant. He regularly contemplates sitting in the crow's home of a ship, encountering the scents one day, yet (the storyteller says) Grenouille will never observe the sea.

At the point when Grenouille depletes the scents of his neighboring quarters, he grows and starts investigating the opposite side of the stream, where rich individuals live. This is the place Grenouille first scents fragrance. He is quickly ready to analyze these fragrances as he'd finished with different scents, however he discovers the greater part of them coarse and supposes he'd have the capacity to improve the situation in the event that he approached fixings.

Grenouille doesn't separate between "great" or "terrible" aromas; he just wants to have all that he can. In his mind he makes and pulverizes new fragrances with the nuts and bolts he's accumulated, correspondingly to how a youngster plays with squares

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On September 1, 1753, Paris sets off firecrackers to praise the commemoration of the ruler's crowning liturgy. An incredible group processes along the stream, Grenouille among them on the correct bank. the firecrackers bore him, as he finds their smell dull. As he plans to leave, he gets a murmur of a fragile aroma that almost evades him. Grenouille is in misery as his heart throbs for the aroma. He feels it's the way to allocating request to the various smells, and feels wiped out with fervor.

Grenouille chooses the fragrance is originating from over the extension and finishes the aroma the group. He conceives that the fragrance has a freshness and a glow like nothing else he's at any point experienced. Grenouille feels as if the fragrance is attracting him, and he proceeds with his chase through the vacant roads.

Grenouille turns onto the lament de Marais and the fragrance gets more grounded and cleaner. At long last, after a progression of patios, he sees a young lady, 13 or 14 years of age, sitting at a table, cleaning and setting plums by candlelight. Grenouille understands that the aroma is originating from the young lady and is befuddled, as he most likely is aware people to smell frightful. He counsels his eyes for one minute and comes back to getting a charge out of the smell of the young lady, finding that each aroma he'd rationally made so far is futile in light of this current young lady's fragrance.

Grenouille concludes that he needs to have this fragrance or his life will have no significance. He approaches the young lady gradually and stops directly behind her. She has red hair and extremely white skin. She doesn't see Grenouille, however takes note of a chill of dread. She pivots and encounters Grenouille. In her fear, she doesn't cry or battle him as he chokes her. He doesn't see any of her physical magnificence, as he keeps his eyes shut

At the point when the young lady is dead, Grenouille detaches her dress and scents her exposed skin from make a beeline for toe. At the point when her aroma at long last blurs, he gathers himself for a bit and afterward extinguishes her flame. He starts his walk home as the group from the firecrackers scatters. When the young lady's body is found, Grenouille is as of now over the waterway.

That night, Grenouille thinks about his wardrobe as a royal residence and can't rest for joy. He feels just as he's been conceived out of the blue, as now he understands that he's a virtuoso and must "change the odiferous world" by utilizing his abilities to end up the best perfumer of all. Grenouille likewise requires some serious energy that night to assess and mastermind the fragrances in his memory, and throughout the following week he refines his framework. He starts to build an inward stronghold of smell. Grenouille feels no regret at having killed the young lady; the only thing that is in any way important to him is that he presently has her fragrance.

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At the season of the story, the storyteller says, there were thirteen perfumers in Paris; six on each bank and one on the Pont-au-Change, the scaffold associating the correct save money with the Ile de la Cité. This road was one of the best locations in the city, and the perfumer Giuseppe Baldini lived there.

Baldini stops in his shop, encompassed by a billow of fragrance he's made for himself. He has a great many aromas and beautifying agents in his shop, and also whatever else that has smell, similar to nectar, marinated fish, and scented stationary

Baldini's shop doesn't have a basement, so the whole four stories are stuffed with his products and the mix of the considerable number of aromas in the shop is almost horrendous. While Baldini, his colleagues, and his significant other never again identify the smells, any other individual who enters the shop is hit by an exceptional punch of fragrance. Many black out or end up neglectful, and accordingly, less and less clients enter the shop

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Chapter 10
pg 49
tincture: a medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol/ a slight trace of something
furor: an outbreak of public anger or excitement
pg 50
stifling: very hot and causing difficulties in breathing; suffocating
acquiesce: accept something reluctantly but without protest
concoct: make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients
Chapter 11
pg 51
redolent: strongly reminiscent or suggestive of something/ fragrant or sweet-smelling
pg 52
clandestine: keep secret or done secretively, especially because illicit
foist: impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on
migraine: a recurrent throbbing headache that typically affects one side of the head and is often accompanied by nausea and disturbed vision
pg 53
shambles: a state of total disorder
bergamot: an oily substance extracted from the rind of the fruit of a dwarf variety of the Seville orange tree. It is used in cosmetics and as flavoring in tea.
musk: a strong-smelling reddish-brown substance that is secreted by the male musk deer for scent-marking and is an important ingredient in perfumery.
sachet: a small perfumed bag used to scent clothes.
civet: a slender nocturnal carnivorous mammal with a barred and spotted coat and well-developed anal scent glands, native to Africa and Asia.
castor: a reddish-brown oily substance secreted by beavers, used in medicine and perfumes.
injunction: an authoritative warning or order.
havoc: widespread destruction
pg 54
soupçon: a very small quantity of something
retort: say something in answer to a remark or accusation/ a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive reply to a remark
alembic: a distilling apparatus, now obsolete, consisting of a rounded, necked flask and a cap with a long beak for condensing and conveying the products to a receiver.
salve: an ointment used to promote healing of the skin or as protection.
apothecary: a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs.
suet: the hard white fat on the kidneys and loins of cattle, sheep, and other animals, used to make foods including puddings, pastry, and mincemeat.
pg 55
etherealize: to make or regard as being ethereal
rodomontade: boastful or inflated talk or behavior
pg 56
impertinent: not showing proper respect, rude
incendiary: (of a device or attack) designed to cause fires.
pg 57
perfidious: deceitful and untrustworthy.
pg 58
brazenly: in a bold and shameless way
quagmire: a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot
Chapter 12
pg 59
flacon: a small stoppered bottle, especially one for perfume.
pg 60
efflorescent: blossoming
frenetic: fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way.
unctuous: excessively or ingratiatingly flattering, oily.
pg 61
hackney: a horse or pony of a light breed with a high-stepping trot, used in harness.
scoundrel: a dishonest or unscrupulous person; a rogue
Chapter 13
pg 63
newfangled: different from what one is used to; objectionably new.
pg 64
doddering: tremble or totter, typically because of old age.
serrated: having or denoting a jagged edge; sawlike
pg 66
obsequious: obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
élan: energy, style, and enthusiasm

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Fountains
People used to put perfumes into fountains to make it have a pleasant smell when in use. Since Fountains reuse the water, it will take some time to deplete the perfume from the water.

Perfumery
The book compares perfumery to revolutionary ideas like Euclidian geometry and the creation of writing by the Assyrians. This further emphasizes the deep importance of scent in the 18th century, as well as Grenouille's fixation on scents and his keen sense of smell.

Livre
The livre was established by Charlemagne as a unit of account equal to one pound of silver. It was subdivided into 20 sous (also sols), each of 12 deniers. The word livre came from the Latin word libra, a Roman unit of weight. This system and the denier itself served as the model for many of Europe's currencies, including the British pound, Italian lira, Spanish dinero and the Portuguese dinheiro.

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Francs - Monetary value in France at the time.
1 USD = 5.7618 FRF

Goatskins as blotters -  Perfumers use blotters to soak up the excess liquid

Nature vs. Nurture
Baldini emphasizes the fact that perfumery must be a skill to be learned, not just known.

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Chapter 10
Baldini cries for Chénier, his shop assistant, and tells him he'll be in his study and shouldn't be disturbed. Baldini explains that he's going to create a perfume to use on Spanish hide for a count, and that the count wants something similar to Amor and Psyche, a popular perfume by Baldini's rivalPélissier. The two decide that the scent is truly vulgar and assert that Baldini certainly won't take his inspiration from the "bungler" Pélissier. Baldini heads for his study while Chénier thinks that Baldini will, per usual, not be struck by inspiration, but rather curse and rave and create terrible mixtures, and several hours later, Baldini will reappear and Chénier will suggest that they send someone to discreetly purchase Amor and Psyche from Pélissier.

Chénier thinks that Baldini is no longer a great perfumer, despite how great he'd once been, and can no longer keep up with current trends. Chénier thinks that this is a shame, as Baldini is sure to ruin his shop and Chénier will be too old to take it over by that time.

Chapter 11
In his study, Baldini removes his coat. He knows better than Chénier that inspiration won't strike, as it never has before. The narrator likens Baldini to a competent cook who makes great dishes, but has come up with no recipes of his own. Baldini isn't an inventor and doesn't want to be, as he doesn't like inventions because inventing means breaking rules.

Rather than create a new perfume for the count, Baldini intends to copy Pélissier's Amor and Psyche. Baldini thinks of how awful it is that he, an honest man, must do something so crooked in order to keep such an important client. Most of his clients have ceased purchasing products from him, and he's only surviving by selling door-to-door.

Baldini attributes his fall to Pélissier's reckless creativity, which leaves Baldini unable to keep up with demands each season. Baldini wishes for the strict old guild laws, which would punish Pélissier, who isn't even a trained perfumer. Baldini continues his mental rant and considers the history of perfume, where originally a perfumer had to be fluent in Latin and able to perform many different tasks related to the creation of perfume and cosmetics. However, once it was discovered how to bind scent to alcohol, the craft began to slip from the grasp of masters and into the hands of anyone, like Pélissier.

Baldini laments the changing times, where speed is of the essence. He asserts that man doesn't want to stay where man belongs, which causes all sorts of trouble. Baldini also laments the rise of scientific papers that posit that God maybe didn't even create the world, among other things—women are reading books now, and the king himself is interested in such nonsense.

Baldini stands at the window and regards the river below. The narrator states that Baldini made a mistake buying a house on this side of the bridge, as the river appears to flow away from him, carrying his wealth with it. Sometimes, Baldini crosses one of the bridges with no buildings and looks up the river, imagining that the river is carrying prosperity towards him

Chapter 12
Baldini sits at his desk with a flacon (small bottle) of Amor and Psyche, and sets about trying to identify its components. He thinks it's disgustingly good as he sprinkles drops on a handkerchief and passes it under his nose. Angry at his delight at the perfume, he thinks of Pélissier as a wolf in sheep's clothing and vows to copy the perfume perfectly. Baldini collects paper and ink and begins to dissect the perfume.

Chapter 13
Baldini works for two hours and by then can barely smell anything, but he continues the motion of sprinkling the kerchief and passing it under his nose. He knows continuing is pointless, as he never learned how to dissect scent in this way. Finally, Baldini's nose swells with an allergic reaction to the perfume, and he gratefully quits and decides to send for some Amor and Psyche the following morning.

As the sun sets, Baldini thinks that one day his last customer will die, he'll have to sell the shop, and he’ll move to Italy with his wife in bitter poverty. Baldini goes to the window and opens it, and it seems as though the river has changed direction in the fading sunlight. Suddenly, Baldini flings the flacon of Amor and Psyche into the river. The room is filled with fresh air and the night falls suddenly.

Baldini vows that he won't send someone to purchase Amor and Psyche in the morning. Rather, he decides to sell his shop, and he suddenly feels very happy and relaxed. He can live modestly in Messina by selling now. Baldini decides to tell his wife and then light a candle at Notre-Dame. He puts on his wig and hears the shrill servants' entrance bell as he heads out of his office. Nobody answers the door, so Baldini heads downstairs to answer it himself. Outside is Grenouille, cowering, with goatskins from Monsieur Grimal.

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Chapter 14
pg 67
blotter: a sheet or pad of blotting paper inserted into a frame and kept on a desk
pg 68
unabashedly: without embarrassment or shame
apothecary: a medical professional who formulates and dispenses material media to physicians, surgeons, and patients.
sobriety: the state of being sober
pg 70
tincture: a medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol/ a slight trace of something
pestle: a heavy tool with a rounded end, used for crushing and grinding substances such as pieces or drugs, usually in a mortar
parer: a tool used to pare (peel/take off) things
pg 71
veer: to change direction or course
pg 73
rasp: a coarse form of file used for coarsely shaping wood or other material
impertinent: not showing proper respect, rude
insolent: showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect
pg 78
storax: a natural resin isolated from the wounded bark of Liquidambar orientalists Mill.
demijohn: a bulbous, narrow-necked bottle holding from 3 to 10 gallons of liquid, typically enclosed in a wicker cover.
pedantry: excessive concern with minor details and rules

Chapter 15
pg 80
ineptitude: lack of skill or ability
flacon: a small stoppered bottle, especially one for perfume
pg 81
ostensible: stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so
pedagogical: relating to teaching
pg 82
exasperation: a feeling of intense irritation or annoyance
asinine: extremely stupid or foolish
gibberish: language that is nonsense.
pg 83
tirade: a long, angry speech of criticism or accusation
peroration: the concluding part of a speech, typically intended to inspire enthusiasm in the audience
pg 85
sublime: of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.

Chapter 16
pg 86
haggling: dispute or bargain persistently, especially over the cost of something

pg 87
recompense: make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate
barge: a flat-bottomed boat for carrying freight, typically on canals and rivers, either under its own power or towed by another.
moor: a tract of open uncultivated upland; a health

pg 88
odoriferous: having or giving off a smell, especially an unpleasant or distinctive one.
incense: a gum, spice, or other substance that is burned for the sweet smell it produces
myrrh: a fragrant gum resin obtained from certain trees and used, especially in the Near East, in perfumery, medicines, and incense.

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Genius Method
Grenouille seemed to be just creating the perfume with pure confidence and without measuring. This is the first time we see Grenouille showing his genuis in scents.

Baldini gets proven wrong
Baldini smells the perfume and basically indulges in it. He gets proven wrong and the event seemed to be like a revelation.

Scent to imagery
This event when Baldini sees a situation in which this new perfume gave him a vision. It is like when you read a book that has really good imagery.

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20 livre
Today, this would be about 50 dollars to buy a genius.

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Chapter 14
Baldini remembers that these are the goatskins for the count. He considers sending Grenouille back with the goatskins, but decides to accept them.

Baldini leads Grenouille through the shop. This is the first time Grenouille had been in a perfumery, and while he knows every scent in the place, he still had yearned to see it up close. He feels the seriousness of the rooms and is gripped with the thought that he belongs in this place. The narrator asserts that there is nothing to justify Grenouille's belonging here as a tanner's helper, but Grenouille the tick had scented blood and was letting itself drop.

Baldini instructs Grenouille to lay the skins on a worktable. Baldini inspects the goatskins and finally tells Grenouille that he'll come pay for the skins in a few days, but Grenouille doesn't leave. Baldini asks if he needs something else, and Grenouille tells him that he'd like to work for him. Baldini takes Grenouille's hunched posture for timidity, when it's actually the exact opposite. Baldini explains he has no need for a tanner's apprentice, and Grenouille asks Baldini if he wants to make the skins smell good with Amor and Psyche by Pélissier. This terrifies Baldini. Grenouille continues that Baldini reeks of the perfume and it's not very good, and then rattles off a list of elements that are in the perfume

Baldini is perplexed and thinks that Grenouille is either possessed, an imposter, or very gifted. Three of the ingredients listed by Grenouille were indeed the ones that Baldini hadn't been able to come up with earlier. He's curious and wishes to test Grenouille to see if he can provide the recipe, thinking that even if he won't use the result, he's still interested in knowing the recipe, as well as curious about Grenouille.

Chapter 15
Baldini states that Grenouille has a fine nose, and when Grenouille replies that he has the best nose and knows thousands of odors, Baldini yells that that's impossible, and says that anyone with a passable nose could've parsed out the ingredients of the perfume. Baldini then lists the qualities of a master perfumer, and asks Grenouille if he could provide the exact formula for Amor and Psyche.

Grenouille finally replies that he doesn't know what a formula is. Baldini explains sternly, and Grenouille states that he doesn't need a formula. He just asks to mix the perfume. Baldini is again perplexed as Grenouille points out where the bottles of the ingredients are in the room, and Baldini accuses him of being a spy. Baldini figures that it won't make any difference since he's going to sell the shop anyway, and Grenouille may be a genius.

Baldini agrees to let Grenouille mix the perfume, saying that his certain failure will teach him humility. He begins to set up the tools of the trade on the table as Grenouille grabs bottles and jars, having heard Baldini's "yes" and nothing else, and knowing that he's won.

Grenouille asks how much to make, horrifying and infuriating Baldini. Baldini finally asks for half a beaker, and Grenouille states that he'll mix it his own way, which he knows is the "wrong" way. Baldini thinks there is only one right way, but what happens next is truly a miracle.

Chapter 16
Grenouille pours alcohol into the mixing bottle, horrifying Baldini from the start. In what seems like a haphazard way, Grenouille grabs different bottles, sniffs them, and pours them into the mixing bottle, ignoring the pipettes and test tubes. Baldini thinks that he looks like a selfish child, and is caught up in his own disgust at Grenouille and the age that has allowed individuals like Grenouille to exist; he only comes to when Grenouille begins to shake the mixing bottle vigorously.

Baldini yells for Grenouille to stop and calls him a brat and crude, adding that Grenouille may never again enter a perfumer's shop. However, as he speaks, he smells Amor and Psyche in the air. The narrator says that odors are powerful and cannot be fended off, and as Grenouille steps back from the table, Baldini slowly stops his tirade. He tests the concoction on a handkerchief and says "incredible."

While Baldini sniffs the handkerchief in stunned silence, Grenouille asserts that the perfume isn't very good, and says he'll make it better. Baldini doesn't interfere as Grenouille mixes right into the beaker of Amor and Psyche. Grenouille then swirls the mixture delicately, rather than shaking it, and pronounces it done. When asked, however, Baldini declines to test it and shows Grenouille to the door.

Grenouille again asks Baldini if he can work for him, and Baldini, still stunned, says he'll think about it. Grenouille disappears, and Baldini is frightened by what's just occurred. He returns to the laboratory and tests the new perfume, which he finds glorious. Silently he begins to trim the leather and starts the process of scenting the skins. Upstairs later he says nothing to his wife, and he forgets to light a candle at Notre-Dame, and forgets for the first time to say his prayers.

Chapter 17
The next morning, Baldini goes to Grimal, pays for the goat leather, and invites Grimal to share wine and negotiate Baldini's purchase of Grenouille as an apprentice. He offers an enormous sum of money and Grimal accepts. When they return to the tannery, Grenouille is waiting with his clothes, and he and Baldini leave.

Grimal, convinced he's just made the best deal of his life, continues drinking throughout the day. That night, confused, he falls face first into the river and drowns instantly. The river draws his body downstream

As Grimal's body flows under the Pont-au-Change, Grenouille is going to bed in a bunk in a corner of Baldini's laboratory. As Grenouille falls asleep, he dreams of a victorious entrance into his inner fortresswhere there's a banquet and an orgy with clouds of incense and myrrh held in his honor.

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pg 88

Chime: a bell or a metal bar or tube, typically one of a set tuned to produce a melodious series of ringing sounds when struck.

demijohn: a bulbous, narrow-necked bottle holding from 3 to 10 gallons of liquid, typically enclosed in a wicker cover.

pg 89

shambles: a state of total disorder/a butcher's slaughterhouse

incipient: in an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop.

senile: having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties.

pg 91

ferret: look around in a place or container in search of something.

prickly: ready to take offense.

Chapter 18

pg 93

pulverize: reduce to fine particles.

pg 96

ethereal: extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.

alembic: a distilling apparatus, now obsolete, consisting of a rounded, necked flask and a cap with a long beak for condensing and conveying the products to a receiver.

pg 97

mistral: a strong, cold northwesterly wind that blows through the Rhône valley and southern France into the Mediterranean, mainly in winter.

ruddy: having a healthy red color.

Chapter 19

pg 98

cull: select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources.

pg 99

yew: a coniferous tree that has red berrylike fruits, and most parts of which are highly poisonous. Yews are linked with folklore and superstition and can live to a great age; the timber is used in cabinetmaking and (formerly) to make longbows.

sprig: a small stem bearing leaves or flowers, taken from a bush or plant.

thyme: a low-growing aromatic plant of the mint family. The small leaves are used as a culinary herb, and the plant yields a medicinal oil.

pg 100

fecund: able to produce a lot of crops, fruit, babies, young animals

Chapter 20

pg 100

pustule: a small blister or pimple on the skin containing pus.

ulcerous: having or constituting an ulcer.

pg 101

unassailable: unable to be attacked, questioned, or defeated.

pg 102

festering: become worse or more intense, especially through long-term neglect or indifference.

prognosis: the likely course of a disease or ailment.

pg 103

posterity: all future generations of people.

pg 104

croon: hum or sing in a soft, low voice, especially in a sentimental manner.

pg 105

pus: a thick yellowish or greenish opaque liquid produced in infected tissue, consisting of dead white blood cells and bacteria with tissue debris and serum.

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Baldini teaches Grenouille
This is when we first see Grenouille's growth as a perfumer. He starts to use the measuring devices, and recording his formulas. He was fascinated by the process of distillation. His experimentation seems to be close to insanity, and it starts to show his innate genius.

This reminds me of natural talent trying to be taught. I believe that geniuses should be kept unbound, however, to be considered as an apprentice, Grennouille must learn how to make perfume in the proper way.

Grenouille's Sickness
Grimal was mentioned again in chapter 20, and explained to Baldini before he died, that Grenouille was very resilient. Metioning the sickness Grenouille had in the earlier chapters when he was still working at the tannery.

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Chapter 18

Baldini instructs Grenouille in all the arts of being a perfumer, from soap making to sewing gloves. Grenouille really only enjoys instruction in producing tinctures and extracts. Baldini's workshop isn't appropriate for doing any of this on a large scale, if only because it’s hard to come by large enough quantities of one plant in Paris, but when materials did become available, Baldini would pull out his alembic to distill the material.

The process of distillation relies on speed, and fascinates Grenouille. The alembic needed to be attended all night, and Grenouille and Baldini would sit up, with Baldini drinking wine and telling stories. Grenouille doesn't listen to them; he’s too engrossed in the process. He imagines himself as an alembic, his stored scents simmering away, that would one day make the world bearable for him. He soon abandons this fantasy and begins thinking about how to use his knowledge to achieve his goals.

Chapter 19

Once Baldini deems Grenouille experienced enough, he allows him free use of the alembic. Grenouille spends his nights attempting to distill a variety of items. He's successful with plant matter, but fails with things like glass, porcelain, and water from the Seine. The narrator notes that Grenouille is unaware that for substances without essential oils, distilling is impossible. After months of failing to produce scents present in his memory, Grenouille falls deathly ill

Chapter 20

Grenouille develops a high fever that after a few days develops into pustules and boils. Baldini is understandably worried, as he's considering opening a small factory where popular scents could be mixed and sent all over Europe. While technically an illegal venture, Baldini has the possibility of a royal patent thanks to one of his clients, which would allow him to skip pesky restrictions. Baldini is also entertaining the idea of having Grenouille create individual perfumes for a select few clients.

In light of these dreams, Baldini decides to do whatever it takes to save Grenouille. Grenouille is moved to a clean bed on the top floor and fed chicken broth and wine. Baldini sends for Dr. Procope, a very expensive physician. With a brief look, the doctor diagnoses Grenouille with syphilitic smallpox, complicated by festering measles, for which there is no treatment. Interestingly, Grenouille's body doesn't exhibit the characteristic stench of the disease, but he's still likely to die within 48 hours.

Baldini is distraught at this turn of events. He considers making a pilgrimage to Notre-Dame to light a candle, but decides instead to attempt to take Grenouille's "perfumatory confession" and get one last formula out of his dying apprentice. Baldini whispers to Grenouille that this final perfume will have Grenouille's name engraved on the bottle and be given to the king, but Grenouille doesn't stir.

Baldini sits all night with Grenouille. At dawn he gives up, but suddenly Grenouille speaks and asks if there are other ways of extracting scent besides distillation. Baldini, thinking this is surely the end, tells Grenouille that there are three other methods, and all are superior to distillation. He says that these processes are carried out primarily in Grasse, in the south of France. Baldini gets up to leave and thinks he should call a priest, but Grenouille's body has actually begun healing. In a week, he's fully recovered.

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Grenouille leaves
Leaving Baldini did not seem to affect Grenouille in the slightest. However, he seemed like he was belittling Baldini, although he is grateful for all Baldini has done for him.

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Baldini
Baldini is seen reflecting on his time with Grenouille, and shows his arrogance. Baldini plundered Grenouille's talents and reaped the benefits, however, Baldini did not see it as wrong. He only saw it as just a different way. As Baldini started his life no longer with Grenouille, it practically falls apart when England declares war on France.

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Grenouille's Journey
Grenouille is noticing the beauty of pure air because Paris had quite a lack of it. His appreciation for air's purity gets to the point of loathing the corruption of that beauty by humans. He seems to hate humans more and more during this chapter, and it contrasts to when he first found that woman's scent. This is also the first time we see Grenouille have so much joy, once he considered himself alone.

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Grenouille and God
In this chapter, Grenouille compares his experience of solitude to prophets leaving to solitude, to seek out God. He however did not do this for God, merely his own personal pleasure. I believe that this comparison shows us that Grenouille believes he is above other men, and thinks he is like a God. He starts to call himself Grenouille the Great as he fills the surrounding landscape with fragrance.

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Grenouille
His inner self started to imagine and remember all the scents that he had experienced through his lifetime. He even includes the scent of that woman in Paris as he seemed to think that woman had the more amazing odor. His behavior in the real world seems to grow more insane as he wants less to do with the outside world. He even got frozen in his cave as he was stuck in his inner self for 5 days, however the weather changed and he was saved. He stayed like this for 7 years before he was coughed back up again into the world.

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Grenouille's Fear
Grenouille, the genius of odors, is unable to smell himself. This seems to be a negative event for Grenouille as he should be able to know his own odor. However, he is unable to smell it, even through his best efforts. He decides to leave the mountain. This is basically one of the first times we've seen Grenouille be scared.

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Grenouille
This is the first time someone called him Monsieur. The first time he was ever seen as a man, and not some wild beast of odor. This is also another reference to how he was treated throughout the beginning of the novel. He has finally become a gentleman, and not some animal.

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Grenouille beings to abuse his connection to the marquis, and manipulated him into letting Grenouille go back into a perfume laboratory. He began to mix the stench of humans, and used some extremely disgusting scents to conjure it up.

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Chapter 21

cranny: a small, narrow space or opening

rucksack: bag with shoulder straps that allow it to be carried on someone's back, typically made of a strong, waterproof material and widely used by hikers; a backpack.

sol: a fluid suspension of a colloidal solid in a liquid.

severance: the action of ending a connection or relationship.

sanctimonious: making a show of being morally superior to other people.

chapter 22

plunder: steal goods from (a place or person), typically using force and in a time of war or civil disorder.

providence: the protective care of God or of nature as a spiritual power.

uncanny: strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way.

resinous: Any of numerous clear to translucent yellow or brown, solid or semisolid, viscous substances of plant origin, such as copal, rosin, and amber, used principally in lacquers, varnishes, inks, adhesives, plastics, and pharmaceuticals.

palpable: (of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to seem almost tangible.

chapter 23

deliverance: the action of being rescued or set free.

coax: gently and persistently persuade (someone) to do something.

proviso: a condition attached to an agreement.

effluvium: a smelly gas, vapor, or an exhalation

rarefied: (of air, especially that at high altitudes) of lower pressure than usual; thin, distant from the lives and concerns of ordinary people.

chapter 24

rustle: make a soft, muffled crackling sound like that caused by the movement of dry leaves or paper.

scythe: a tool used for cutting crops such as grass or wheat, with a long curved blade at the end of a long pole attached to which are one or two short handles.

abhorrent: inspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant.

euphoria: a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.

clench: (with reference to the fingers or hand) close into a tight ball, especially when feeling extreme anger.

chapter 25

quench: satisfy (one's thirst) by drinking.

gourmet: a connoisseur of good food; a person with a discerning palate.

incorporeal: not composed of matter; having no material existence.

crypt: an underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place.

penance: voluntary self-punishment inflicted as an outward expression of repentance for having done wrong.

chapter 26

debauchery: excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.

husk: the dry outer covering of some fruits or seeds.

aperitif: an alcoholic drink taken before a meal to stimulate the appetite.

deluge: inundate with a great quantity of something.

sublime: of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.

voluptuous: relating to or characterized by luxury or sensual pleasure.

chapter 27

cellar: a room below ground level in a house, typically one used for storing wine or coal.

cask: a large container like a barrel, made of wood, metal or plastic and used for storing liquids, typically alcoholic drinks.

luscious: (of food or wine) having a pleasingly rich, sweet taste.

petard: a small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powder, used to blast down a door or to make a hole in a wall.

guzzling: eat or drink (something) greedily.

chapter 28

carcass: the dead body of an animal.

chapter 29

wisp: a small thin or twisted bunch, piece, or amount of something.

moor: a tract of open uncultivated upland; a heath.

shudder: (of a person) tremble convulsively, typically as a result of fear or revulsion.

anemone: a plant of the buttercup family, typically bearing brightly colored flowers. Anemones are widely distributed in the wild, and several kinds are popular garden plants.

chapter 30

scraggly: (of a person or animal) thin and bony.

navel: a rounded knotty depression in the center of a person's belly caused by the detachment of the umbilical cord after birth; the umbilicus.

talon: a claw, especially one belonging to a bird of prey.

gape: be or become wide open.

marquis: (in some European countries) a nobleman ranking above a count and below a duke.

chapter 31

ebb: (of an emotion or quality) gradually lessen or reduce.

recuperation: recovery from illness or exertion.

pernicious: having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.

enervation: a feeling of being drained of energy or vitality; fatigue.

hemorrhoid: a swollen vein or group of veins in the region of the anus.

bilge: the area on the outer surface of a ship's hull where the bottom curves to meet the vertical sides.

chapter 32

tavern: an establishment for the sale of beer and other drinks to be consumed on the premises, sometimes also serving food.

jowl: the lower part of a person's or animal's cheek, especially when it is fleshy or drooping.

pelt: attack (someone) by repeatedly hurling things at them.

lechery: excessive or offensive sexual desire; lustfulness.

incense: a gum, spice, or other substance that is burned for the sweet smell it produces.

chapter 33

swooning: faint from extreme emotion.

anoint: smear or rub with oil, typically as part of a religious ceremony.

timorous: showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence.

revulsion: a sense of disgust and loathing.

proselyte: a person who has converted from one opinion, religion, or party to another.

chapter 34

fluid: (of a substance) able to flow easily.

disciple: a personal follower of Jesus during his life, especially one of the twelve Apostles.

senescence: the condition or process of deterioration with age.

strapping: (especially of a young person) big and strong.

exultation: a feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation; rejoicing.

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Grenouille tested his scents and compares the difference between how people perceived him. He concluded that this first attempt at a human scent has given him a better aura and presence in the world around him. This leads him to the thought of creating the super human scent, which is basically an alteration of his original goal of recreating and preserving a scent.

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We see the Marquis finally explain his theory to his friends and foes in science, utilizing Grenouille as evidence for the existence of this fluidum latale and vitale. Grenouille however, believes that he is the reason for the success the marquis. This was true because Grenouille was the one to recover, he was the one to create the scent, and he was the one to ensure that this opportunity of his would not be wasted. This chapter reminded me of when Grenouille first entered Baldini's life. Full of success and respect all because of him. I believe that this is foreshadowing a bad turn of events as when Grenouille left Baldini, tragedy struck.

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Both this chapter and the previous chapter had elements of a strange theory of the world. It reminded me of the ideas of ancient philosophers, and how their ideas would seem to be close to insanity if they were restated in our time. However, at the time, without a perfect method of testing and validating our experiments, anything could have been true.

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Baldini makes three deals with Grenouille for releasing Grenouille. The three deals are: 1. Grenouille must not produce any of the perfumes he'd made for Baldini. 2. He must leave Paris and not return until after Baldini's death. 3. He must keep the first two conditions secret. It can be inferred that Baldini has achieved the fame he dreamed of, and sees that he has no more use for Grenouille

Chapter 22
This chapter brings in the thoughts that Baldini had for Grenouille. It can be understood that Baldini is relieved with the fact that he does not have to see Grenouille anymore. In addition, with Grenouille's departure, Baldini feels secure in his fortune.

The story continues as English declares a war to France. As a result, the war causes Baldini's ship to stop exporting Baldini's perfume. That night, Baldini, in bed, decides to create a new perfume to cover up for the loss expenses. However, during that night, Bladini's house collapsed and Baldini and his family died and were never to be found again. In addition, Baldini's servant Chenier suffers a mental breakdown due to the fact that he could not inherit Baldini's shop.

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Chapter 23 begins Part Two of the novel. Grenouille is on the road to the town of Orleans, walking away from Paris. He is enjoying the diminished human scents the farther he gets from Paris. He enjoys the absence of human scent so greatly that he begins to travel only at night. He avoids people completely, and he sleeps out in the open as far from human habitation as possible. The purity of the air, compared to the olfactory squalor and confusion of Paris, gives Grenouille's nose some much-needed relief.

After a while, Grenouille's plan to go directly Grasse "unraveled in freedom, so to speak, as did all his other plans and intentions. Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings" (117). Grenouille now only wants to get to a place where people and human habitation can no longer be smelled. He finally gets to a volcanic peak in the Massif Centrale of the Auvergne called Plomb du Cantal, at which he finds the midpoint of isolation, the point at which all human beings are equally and maximally distant from him. At the end of Chapter 24, Grenouille is standing on the top of the six-thousand-foot peak, screaming and leaping for joy that he is finally alone, in a place where he is completely free of human odor for the first time.

He decides to stay in what he considers this "blessed region" (121) for some time. He finds a very small trickle of water, just enough to keep him alive. He manages to eat small salamanders and snakes, whole and raw. He finds a deep natural tunnel into the mountain, at the back of which there is a crevice where he can lay on his horse blanket in total darkness and isolation. He is so happy to find this place that he weeps with joy.

He spends his days in what can only be described as olfactory meditation. He begins with a review of the people and scenes of his youth, the smells of Madame Gaillard, Father Terrier, Jeanne Bussie, the Cimetière des Innocents, and finally the "homicidal odor of his mother" and the stench of Grimal the tanner. As he "wallowed in disgust and loathing ... his hair stood on end at the delicious horror" (124).

Rid of these horrid odors, and reveling in an imaginary world of justified anger and disgust, he then imagines himself as Grenouille the Great. He has a creation fantasy in which he is god and ruler, and his inner world completely takes over his life. He spends all his days in fantasy, and he only leaves the cave for his barest human needs. His pleasures are entirely the review and imagination of odors that he has collected in his lifetime, stored in the imaginary purple castle of his heart. He drinks of the odors with the delectation of a gourmet, and finds complete peace and happiness.

Incredibly, Grenouille lives in this cave for seven long years. He nearly freezes to death at some point, but the weather warms and he is saved. The snow lies so deep once that he cannot get down to the lichen on which he feeds. A raven falls dead at the mouth of his cave, and he eats it. Other than these events, nothing outside of Grenouille's mind occurs to him for this long time. But in Chapter 29, Grenouille has a horrible dream that he has had a personal body odor which he could not smell. This shakes him to the core and makes him leave the mountain so that he will not have this horrifying dream again. Grenouille performs several tests to see if he can smell himself, on his clothes or skin or in the cave where he has lain for seven years. He now knows for certain that he has no smell and that his existence makes no mark on the olfactory world. This shakes him so completely that he puts on what is left of his rags of clothes, and leaves the Plomb du Cantal.

Down in the town of Pierrefort, he frightens everyone with his extremely wild and unkempt appearance. He is taken in by the marquis de La Taillade-Espinasse, an extremely eccentric, scientifically inclined nobleman. The Marquis has a theory of fluidum vitale and fluidum letale, based on the premise that the earth emits a lethal gas which all creatures try to get away from by growing. Grenouille, in his wild state, fits exactly what a man contaminated by fluidum letale supposedly looks like. (Grenouille told the townspeople that he had been captured by robbers and held captive in a cave for seven years.) The Marquis brings him to a Freemason lodge in Montpellier to exhibit him to other scientific men as a case for him to cure by ventilation with fluidum vitale.

The Marquis brings Grenouille home and puts him in a "ventilation chamber" at the top of his house. He is fed only on earth-removed food (duck broth, bread from mountain wheat, and the like) and kept there for five days. Then he is washed and groomed, and a new set of clothing and shoes are made for him. The Marquis makes him learn to act like a gentleman, but before he is presented again as a cured case Grenouille fakes a fainting spell, pretending to be enervated by the smell of a perfume made from violet roots.

Grenouille is sent to the best perfumer in the city, which is exactly what he wants. At the perfumer's workshop, Grenouille creates a perfume which smells like a human being--not like a cologne, but like a basic human odor--out of excrement and rotting food covered with fresh, oily scents. He also makes a rather simple, innocent-smelling scent which smells just like the first scent, but is for a person with a discernible human odor.

Grenouille tries out this scent on the unknowing populace, and he discovers that he smells like other people for the first time in his life. Since he smells like other people, he can move among them and, eventually, he thinks, create the smell that will make all people in the world love him. He is presented by the Marquis as a total success to an assemblage of scientific men, so the Marquis's theories become accepted. Grenouille stays on in Montpellier for a few weeks, where he is celebrated by society. He gives the formula for the perfume to the Marquis, who pays him fifty louis d'or.

One morning in March, Grenouille slips out of town, not wearing his now-customary "human" perfume, and he is not noticed by anyone. The Marquis is annoyed, but goes on to even further flights of fancy in pursuit of his fluidum vitale theory. He walks up a mountain, followed part of the way by his disciples, in a snowstorm. He casts his clothes from him, believing he will descend in few weeks from the mountain as a young man. His body is never found.

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Grenouille knew for certain that unless he possessed this scent, his life would have no meaning... the mere memory, however complex, was not enough.

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Grenouille knew for certain that unless he possessed this scent, his life would have no meaning... the mere memory, however complex, was not enough.

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The man was indeed a danger to the whole trade with his reckless creativity. It made you wish for a return to the old rigid guild laws. Made you wish for draconian measures against this nonconformist, this inflationist of scent.

But he at once felt the seriousness that reigned in these rooms, you might almost call it a holy seriousness, if the word "holy" had held any meaning whatever for Grenouille...

He believed that by collecting these written formulas, he could exorcise the terrible creative chaos erupting from his apprentice.

he clapped his hands and called his servants, who were invisible, intangible, inaudible, and above all inodorous, and thus totally imaginary servants...

What he now felt was the fear of not knowing much of anything about himself... He could not flee it, but had to move toward it.

“You will realize for the first time in your life that you are a human being; not a particularly extraordinary or in any fashion distinguished one, but nevertheless a perfectly acceptable human being.”

For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they could not escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath... He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

chapter 35
No, he wanted truly to possess the scent of this girl behind the wall; to peel it from her like skin and to make her scent his own. How that was to be done, he did not know yet. But he had two years in which to learn. Ultimately it ought to be no more difficult than robbing a rare flower of its perfume.

chapter 38
What he coveted was the odor of certain human beings: that is, those rare humans who inspire love. These were his victims.

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Chapter 35

pg 166

disheveled: (of a person's hair, clothes, or appearance) untidy; disordered.

indolence: inclination to laziness

enrapture: give intense pleasure or joy to.

pg 167

gush: (of a liquid) flow out in a rapid and plentiful stream, often suddenly.

mire: a stretch of swampy or boggy ground.

pg 171

ogle: stare at in a lecherous manner.

Chapter 36

pg 173

niggardly: not generous; stingy.

pg 174

jonquil: A widely cultivated narcissus with clusters of small fragrant yellow flowers and cylindrical leaves, native to southern Europe and north-eastern Africa.

pg 175

macerate: (especially with reference to food) soften or become softened by soaking in a liquid.

congeal: solidify or coagulate, especially by cooling.

mutiny: refuse to obey the orders of a person in authority.

assay: determine the content or quality of (a metal or ore).

Chapter 37

pg 178

metamorphosis: (in an insect or amphibian) the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.

pg 180

verisimilitude: the appearance of being true or real.

enfleurage: the extraction of essential oils and perfumes from flowers using odorless animal or vegetable fats.

pg 181

doltish: (of a person) stupid; idiotic.

drudgery: hard menial or dull work.

Chapter 38

pg 185

virtuoso: a person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit.

trifle: treat (someone or something) without seriousness or respect.

obstinate: stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so.

pg 186

adulterate: render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance, typically an inferior one.

miasma: an unpleasant fog that smells bad:

Chapter 39

pg 191

acrid: having an irritatingly strong and unpleasant taste or smell.

pg 192

prosaic: having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty.

renunciation: the formal rejection of something, typically a belief, claim, or course of action.

evanescent: soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.

pg 193

diadem: a jeweled crown or headband worn as a symbol of sovereignty.

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Grenouille finally reaches Grasse, and he remembers what Baldini always said about Grasse. A person can be named a perfumer if they have made a name for themselves in Grasse. Grenouille usually goes to the tannery section of towns to become more familiar with the place. Another reference to previous chapters is the idea of the smell of the girl in the beginning. He finds another girl with a similar smell, and believes that time will make it develop into something more exquisite than the first girl.

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He goes to a small perfumer's shop to get a job, and hopefully learn the other methods of extracting scent out of objects. He learns about using pork lard and beef tallow to extract the scent of jonquil flowers. This mixture can be further concentrated to essence absolue, which greatly lessens the quantity, however is worth a fortune.

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Grenouille's God complex seems to surface slightly when he suggests Druot when to lessen the heat while extracting and other tasks. Grenouille does this to still appear inferior to Druot, in order to make Druot always feel correct, and hopefully get to the point that Grenouille is left alone to do the work, which will allow him to experiment. Grenouille also learns a new method of extracting scents called cold process, and shows his proficiency again to get the shop to himself again.

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Grenouille creates a multitude of scents that he uses at his disposal in order to do certain things. He has perfumes that allow him to be left alone, to be noticed, and others. He starts to experiment on inanimate objects that he tried to extract in the alembic. He is slightly successful with a brass doorknob and a stone using beef tallow. He starts to do living subjects such as animals and insects. He concludes that he needs to kill them in order for them to not interfere with the process of extraction. This conclusion links back to his lack of empathy and lack of moral values as he was not taught as a child.

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Grenouille decides to go back to the girl after a year and he starts to smell the extreme development of the scent. He seems to fall in love not with the girl, but with her scent. He starts to do what he did in the mountain, which was remembering and imagining the scents he has accumulated over time. He was frightened at the fact that the scent may be unable to last forever, or until he dies. He concludes that he must learn how to maintain and preserve the scent as long as possible with other ingredients.

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Part Three of the novel begins in Chapter 35, with Grenouille arriving in the perfume-making town of Grasse. It took seven years for him to get from Paris to Montpellier; it took less than seven days to get to Grasse. He is hurrying to go to Grasse in order to find somewhere to learn about the other methods of distilling and preserving scent, which Baldini had told him about as he lay on his deathbed.

In this town Grenouille finds the scent of another red-headed girl, very like the one he killed in Paris on the rue des Marais. But this girl, he discerns only by smelling her outside her garden wall, is still a child, and already has an extraordinarily beautiful scent, which will mature in one or two short years into something utterly ravishing. Grenouille reflects on how people will think that her charm and fascination is in how she looks; Grenouille knows that the way she entrances everyone has very little to do with her looks and everything to do with her wonderful aroma.

Grenouille finds, on the rue de la Louve in Grasse, a small perfumer's workshop. The shop is run by the widow of a maître perfumer, helped only by a journeyman named Druot. Madame Arnulfi engages Grenouille on a very poor salary, but Grenouille is glad to have the work. Druot is Madame Arnulfi's lover, and he is only too happy to have someone do the hard work for him. Grenouille is put immediately to work making a pomade of jonquils with Druot. Grenouille learns not only how to make this, but also the processes of lavage and maceration, and the making of essence absolue--the most concentrated form of scent.

Grenouille shows himself to be such a good worker, and so quick to learn the intricacies of perfume-making, that Druot begins to leave more decisions to him. Grenouille learns the very finest way of collecting the most delicate scents--those of jasmine and tuberose—called cold enfleurage. Grenouille now knows that this method is best for the finest scents, and he begins to wonder about capturing the scent of the red-haired girl.

Grenouille slowly teaches himself to collect scents from objects other than flowers by the method of cold enfleurage. He starts with inanimate objects, such as doorknobs and stones, and then moves onto small animals. But he learns that animals do not give up their scents without a fight, and it is best to kill them first before extracting their odors. He experiments with capturing human odors by hanging oily cloths in a tavern and a church, but he finds that this is ineffectual for collecting pure human odors. Finally, he pays a deaf-mute beggar woman to wear the oily cloths next to her skin, which suggests to him the best method and the correct ratio of fats to collect the scent from a human being.

Madame Arnulfi marries Druot, but life at the workshop continues much as before. Grenouille visits the red-haired girl's street again, where he smells her improved scent through the garden wall. While he is closer to his goal, Grenouille starts to panic about the fact that, after he has killed the girl and collected her smell, the essence of her smell will eventually run out and can never be replaced. He becomes almost suicidal, but then a thought occurs to him. He will have to supplement this girl's scent with the scent of other human beings.

Grenouille starts killing girls in their first adolescence. The body of a fifteen-year-old-girl is found, naked and shorn of her hair, in a farmer's field. Grenouille took her clothes and hair in order to engage in cold enfleurage, after he had killed her by a blow to the back of her head. This is followed by two more murders of teenage girls, and the people of the region are thrown into a justifiable panic. As the murders continue, various groups are blamed and the authorities try various methods, including an anathema and excommunication. The murders abruptly stop as the count becomes twenty-four dead young women, and the people are relieved.

In Chapter 41, the father of the red-haired girl, Monsieur Richis is attempting to marry his daughter into the nobility. He has dynastic plans and, since he is a widower, he plans to marry again after his daughter's marriage so that he can have at least two sons to carry on his business and enter the law. He is less worried now that the anathema on the murderer seems to have worked, but he still guards his daughter, Laure Richis, carefully.

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Chapter 40

pg 194

languid: (of a person, manner, or gesture) displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed.

pg 195

lecherous: having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire.

pg 196

bludgeon: beat (someone) repeatedly with a bludgeon or other heavy object.

pg 197

impalpable: unable to be felt by touch.

revile: criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner.

Chapter 41

pg 200

auburn: (chiefly of a person's hair) of a reddish-brown color.

scruple: a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action.

pg 201

loath: reluctant; unwilling.

chaste: abstaining from extramarital, or from all, sexual intercourse.

despicable: deserving hatred and contempt.

Chapter 42

pg 202

anathema: something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.

pg 203

sublime: of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.

pg 204

adjuncts: a thing added to something else as a supplementary rather than an essential part.

pg 205

doggedness: persistent determination

despondency: a state of low spirits caused by loss of hope or courage.

Chapter 43

pg 206

bridle: show one's resentment or anger, especially by throwing up the head and drawing in the chin.

saddle: burden (someone) with an onerous responsibility or task.

doff: to remove your hat, usually to show respect

pg 207

placate: make (someone) less angry or hostile.

arduous: involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring.

Chapter 44

pg 210

perceptive: having or showing sensitive insight.

rectify: put (something) right; correct.

pg 211

unsullied: not spoiled or made impure.

pg 213

feign: pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury).

exude: discharge (moisture or a smell) slowly and steadily.

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This chapter puts us into the townspeople's point of view. This shows how they are unable to determine the cause of the murders, which in turn also aids Grenouille in his acts. This chapter portrays Grenouille as some beast that kills and takes women's hair at any time.

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This chapter is in Antoine Richis's point of view. It mostly elaborates on one perspective of the people. One of a wealthy man. It seems as though Antoine is a man of pride and ego. He is unwilling to move out of the town because of his position in the town. I found that his behavior is one of strong will, and this description of his daughter seems to foreshadow her death.

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Richis's lack of fear disappears, however, he quickly composed himself, and starts to think about the murderer. He starts to believe that the murderer is still in Grasse, and that he has a system. He then believes that Laure is the key to the murderer's plan. Richis starts to think he is superior to the murderer as he is the one in possession of Laure.

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Richis decides to flee to Grenoble to marry Laure to a Baron's son, and to consummate on the same day. This is to make Laure not a target for the murderer. However, as they are traveling to slow, Laure is far from safe, which also seems to be foreshadowing her death again.

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Grenouille starts his plan to take Laure and takes preparatory measures. His meticulous preparation comes off as well thought and slightly frightening. This is the accumulation of all his knowledge.

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Chapter 42
This chapter focuses on the worries that Richis has upon the murderer in town. Richis comes to a decision that the murderer has a pattern and that he has outsmarted the murderer which will prevent his daughter from being murdered.

Chapter 43
This chapter is about the decisions that Richis makes in order to prevent the murderer taking his daughter's life. He does this by planning a marriage for his daughter as he is fleeing the town. With the decision he makes, he feels more safe than before as he believes that taking away his daughter's youth and virginity will prevent the muder.

Chapter 44
This chapter is when Grenouille plans to obtain the scent of Laure. However, after he finishes his work in the workshop, he realizes that Laure is no longer in town because he couldn't smell the scent of Laure anymore. That afternoon, Drout mentions that Laure and Richis have left for Grenoble. Therefore, Grenouille runs out of the town and smells the scent of Laure from the opposite direction. Then Grenouille chases after the two and arrives at an inn disguised as a journeyman tanner. Later that night Grenouille hears Laure and Richis arrive. However, Richis notices that there is another guest at the inn and decides to lock his daughter up in a room and feels safer than before.

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"The farmer who discovered her was so disconcerted by
the gruesome sight that he almost ended up a suspect
himself, when in a quivering voice he told the police
lieutenant that he had never seen anything so beautiful
—when he had really wanted to say that he had never
seen anything so awful."
5. Scent, sight, and grotesque
Readers can assume that the marvelous scent that the young dead girl possessed led the witness to subconsciously think that it was a beautiful sight even though it was a horrible murder. This is another sign in the novel that demonstrates the important of smell and how significant it is that it takes over other senses such as sight.

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- Rich by being a wholesaler
- Sells perfume
- Second consul
- Widower who intends to remarry
- Sometimes sexually attracted to his daughter (Laure)
- Protective over his Laure; mentions that he cannot live without her
- Sees Laure only as a means of advancement for himself, as he can profit from her marriage to someone of high social standing
- Feels superior to the murderer

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Chapter 45

pg 214

circumspection: the quality of being wary and unwilling to take risks; prudence.

pg 215

contour: an outline, especially one representing or bounding the shape or form of something.

pg 216

thud: a dull, heavy sound, such as that made by an object falling to the ground.

pg 217

strudel: a dessert of thin pastry rolled up around a fruit filling and baked.

Chapter 46

pg 220

cranny: a small, narrow space or opening.

scullery: a small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work.

pg 221

hubbub: a chaotic din caused by a crowd of people.

Chapter 47

pg 222

virulent: (of a disease or poison) extremely severe or harmful in its effects.

pg 223

occult: supernatural, mystical, or magical beliefs, practices, or phenomena.

penitential: relating to or expressing penitence or penance.

pg 224

environ: surround; enclose.

pg 225

culprit: a person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed.

Chapter 48

pg 226

ruse: an action intended to deceive someone; a trick.

provost: a senior administrative officer in certain colleges and universities.

pg 227

agape: (of the mouth) wide open, especially with surprise or wonder.

abominable: causing moral revulsion.

pg 231

pious: devoutly religious.

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This chapter is when Grenouille finally does what he has intended to do. He finally obtains the scent of Laure. He even congratulates himself for all he is and what he has done, which feeds into his narcissism

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Grenouille finishes his work and takes the linen cloth with him. Richis then wakes up in the morning, and was reminded by his nightmare a few chapters back. This chapter does not have a whole lot of connections.

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Laure's death spreads through Grasse, and everyone waits for the murderer's next victim. Investigation on Laure's murderer gets more focused, and everyone is asked to give any information they have. Grenouille then gets arrested and this event seems to not bother him. This is basically one of the times Grenouille loses.

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We see the townspeople react to Grenouille, the same way that everyone reacted to Grenouille. They thought that he was a nobody. However, the second that he left their sight, they demanded for his blood. He was sentenced to execution. Richis hears the news and just wants Grenouille to perish. I believe Grenouille's little influence is revisited in this chapter as no one believed that this guy could have been a murderer

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Everyone is excited about the execution of Grenouille. However, as he arrives and leaves the carriage, people start to believe that there is no way that he is the murderer because he seemed so innocent. This is obviously because of the scent that he created. This power over love got so intense that the people broke out into an orgy.

Grenouille also learns that he never wanted love, but he found pleasure in hatred.

Another connection is when Grenouille sees the fog of his own scent again, slowly suffocating him. To the point that he passes out.

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Grenouille wakes up in Richis house, why lying in Laure's bed. Richis decides to adopt Grenouille, but once again, it's because of the Exquisite perfume that Grenouille created.

Grenouille leaves the place.
Druot is then arrested. He confessed and was executed after 16 hours of torture. This connection made me think about the lack of morality in that age. Some people would have definitely confessed to anything just to not get tortured.

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Grenouille then leaves, and considers the mountain he went to before. However he decides that both solitude and companionship, is not suitable of a life for him. He has the power to control the love of the world, however, it cannot give him love.

Grenouille then goes to a. place that is similar to his birthplace, and pours the whole flacon over himself, losing everything he ever worked for, and being killed in the process. This reminded me of the story going full circle, as he went back to his birthplace, a place where he was left to die, and has decided to die there.

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Ch 48

pg 226

ruse: an action intended to deceive someone; a trick.

pg 227

provost: a senior administrative officer in certain colleges and universities.

pg 228

magistrate: a civil officer or lay judge who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offenses and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.

culprit: a person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed.

pg 231

obscene: (of the portrayal or description of sexual matters) offensive or disgusting by accepted standards of morality and decency.

Ch 49

pg 233

jubilation: a feeling of great happiness and triumph.

pg 236

infatuation: an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something.

homicidal: capable of or tending toward murder; murderous.

pg 237

clatter: a continuous rattling sound as of hard objects falling or striking each other.

pg 242

inundate: overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with.

Ch 50

pg 243

reliquary: a container for holy relics.

fatuous: silly and pointless.

profundity: deep insight; great depth of knowledge or thought.

recant: say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, especially one considered heretical.

pg 245

dissipation: the squandering of money, energy, or resources.

Ch 51

pg 251

anoint: smear or rub with oil, typically as part of a religious ceremony.

pg 253

ooze: (of a fluid) slowly trickle or seep out of something; flow in a very gradual way.

pg 254

plumage: a bird's feathers collectively.

voluptuous: (of a woman) curvaceous and sexually attractive.

rapture: a feeling of intense pleasure or joy.