Perfume Padlet by Ji Eun Lee https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km Dean, John, Jun, Ji Eun en-us 2019-11-18 00:18:00 UTC 2025-02-25 15:07:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Travel Tracer - Ji Eun 19jelee https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/412463224
  • Pont-du-Change
    • A bridge over the River Seine with fashionable shops along each side
    • Where Baldini’s fragrance shop is located
  • Grasse
    • Town near the Mediterranean coast which was the center of perfume trade
    • Located in a valley isolated from the sea
    • Surrounded by flower fields

    • Pont-du-Change
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  • How does the work depict the power and control held by the people belonging to the top social class?

    • In what ways can the concept of ‘perfume’ symbolize underlying nature of humans?

    • How important is a social-economic background in the work?

    • Does the work represent a culture of cooperation or independence/individuality?

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    • “[Baldini] had inherited Rose of the South from his father” Pg.51
    • “Frangipani had liberated scent from matter” pg 54
    • “He didn’t want to be an inventor” pg 51
    • “[Pelissier’s] father had been nothing but a vinegar maker, and Pelissier was a vinegar maker too, nothing else” Pg.53
    • “People reading books, even women” Pg. 57
    • “There  were a baker’s  dozen of  perfumers in Paris in those days”
    • Baldini had thousands of them
    • With which to impregnate a Spanish hide for Count Verhamont.
    • In those days, a figure like Pelissier would have been an impossibility, for back then just for the production of a simple pomade you need abilities of which this vinegar mixer could not even dream
    • It was as if he himself and his house and the wealth he had accumulated over many decades were flowing away like the river

    ]]>     2019-11-18 00:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/412463432     Researcher 19dvriveral https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/412463955 Chapters 9-11
    In 18th century France, perfume was used for bath water, in poultices and enemas, and consumed it in wine or drizzled on a sugar lump. Scents were derived from all natural oils of plants, and animals, and seaweed.
    Perfumers were also known to create poisons by rubbing the perfume/poison in the gloves of royalty, slowly absorbing into the skin
    Paris commercialized perfume]]>     2019-11-18 00:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/412463955     19dvriveral https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/421447248 Discussion Director: Dean
    How does Grenouille demonstrate both creative genius and convention and assimilation and how are they combined to develop Grenouille?How does scent, sight, and grotesque define Grenouille?

    Travel Tracer: Jun
    Grasse, France - The location where the superior methods of extracting scent are plausible. 

    Researcher: Ji Eun
    Slave trades were common in Paris during this time period. Although this transaction was called “apprentice trade”, it was still a form of virtual slavery under many guises. These “apprentices” were working unpaid labor and were basically held captive. Diseases were common in Paris because of the overpopulated cities. There was a smallpox outbreak that wiped out a large population of people in the 18th century. People feared diseases and kept their distance from these people. 

    Word Wizard & Literary Luminary: John
    Virtuoso: A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit
    Jalousie: A blind or shutter made of a row of angled slats
    Bewail: to express great regret, disappointment, or bitterness over (something)Obsequious: Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
    Tincture: A medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol
    Surmise: to suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it]]>     2019-12-09 04:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/421447248     Word wizard - Dean 19dvriveral https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/431078374 Chpt. 31-34
    Detoxified - remove toxic substances or qualities from.
    Putrefaction - the process of decay or rotting in a body or other organic matter.
    Stench - a strong and very unpleasant smell.
    Recuperation - the recovery or regaining of something.
    Pernicious - having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
    Blubberings - sob noisily and uncontrollably.
    Tranquility - the quality or state of being tranquil; calm.
    Gawked - stare openly and stupidly.
    Audacious - showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.

    Quotes
    " He wanted to acquire the human-being odor ... that he did not possess himself. "
    "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."


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    - How does the moment when Grenouille earn a scent symbolize growth and maturity?
    - How does scent act as Grenouille's abode or source of safety?]]>     2020-01-13 23:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/431078997     Travel tracer 19jkim https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/431080059

    When Grenouille first met other people, he looked so horrifying that people run from him screaming. When he enters the town of Pierrefort, he's treated as a sensational curiosity and is taken directly to the mayor. Grenouille presents his journeyman's papers and invents a story that he was attacked by robbers and held captive. Then the mayor passes his report on to the marquis de La Taillade-Espinasse, a local nobleman.

    Grenouille is treated for five days and then is allowed to bathe,
    trim his nails, and soften his skin. The marquis calls for a tailor
    and a cobbler to fit clothes for Grenouille, and the marquis
    himself applied makeup to Grenouille's face. Finally, the
    marquis applies violet perfume to Grenouille and steps back to
    admire his handiwork.

    Taillade-Espinasse addresses Grenouille as "Monsieur," states
    with delight that Grenouille now looks like a perfectly normal
    man, and offers Grenouille a mirror. Grenouille ducks instinctively, but realizes it's his reflection, Grenouille is struck by his normalcy, and thinks that except for lacking a human scent, he isn't unusual at all. Grenouille realizes that this isn’t because
    of the marquis' “treatment”; his appearance of normalcy is
    purely thanks to the clothes and the makeup. He thinks that
    this figure in the mirror could have an effect on the world.



    ]]>     2020-01-14 00:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/431080059     Researcher 19dvriveral https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/431081399 Chpt. 31-34
    Montpellier is an important city, a major economic centre and the primary centre for the spice trade in the Kingdom of France.  In the novel, instead of spice, the scent is traded.

    Chapters 39~44

    The reason why Grenouille mainly takes hair and clothes. 

    - Human hair holds odors better than any other body parts.
    - Our bodily fluids(e.g. oil) is absorbed by the cloth which enables G to extract them after the target dies.

    Chapters 49-51
    Executions - executions were a capital punishment in France. Executions often consisted of a community gathering wherein citizens witness the execution in the middle of a center or a city.]]>     2020-01-14 00:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/431081399     Travel Tracer 19jkim https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/431082537 Chpt. 31-34
    Grenouille, having achieved some fame in Montpellier, remains
    for several weeks. He tells his tale of being captured by robbers
    often, which provides him some practice in conversation (which
    has never been Grenouille's strong suit) and importantly, allows
    him to practice lying. Really, Grenouille can tell people
    whatever he wants because once someone inhales his perfume,
    they immediately trust him. The effect of this is that Grenouille
    becomes confident in social situations.

    Chapter 35-38
    Grasse - small city nestled in a  valley close to the sea. It is the center for the production of scents and perfume.
    Rue de Marais - "street of rosebushes" where Grenouille first killed the redhead

    Chpt. 39-44
    La Napoule - commune in the southeastern part of France.
    Hopital de la charite - a hospital founded in the 17th century 
    Ile de lerins - lerins island is part of the four islands off the French Riviera in Cannes
    Cannes - resort town in the French Riviera]]>     2020-01-14 00:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/431082537     Discussion Director - Ji Eun 19jelee https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/432252147 Ch 39-44
    - What effect does the author produce by not mentioning/including Grenouille in chapter 40, where the villagers are frantically in search of the murderer?
    - How does Grenouille manipulate the power of religion to keep his identity in secret? ]]>     2020-01-16 05:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/432252147     John Discussion director 19jelee https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/432252331 How does Grenouille's new environment develop him as a human?
    What is the effect of meeting a new girl in Grasse on Grenouille?]]>     2020-01-16 05:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/432252331     John Word wizard 19dvriveral https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/433474159 Chpt 39-44
    macerated:  soften or become softened by soaking in a liquid.
    anathema: something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.
    despondency: a state of low spirits caused by loss of hope or courage
    senility: The state of being (of a person) having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties.
    pillaging: rob a (place) using violence, especially in wartime.

    Quotes: Chpt. 39-44
    “Because that desire was an old one of his, to run away and hide in a cave”
    “Even Richis would catch himself looking at his daughter for indefinite periods of time”
    "And in just the same way he would achieve his future goals, power, and noble rank for his heirs."
    ]]>     2020-01-20 00:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/433474159     Word Wizard 19jkim https://padlet.com/19jelee/2tp7lirnh6km/wish/436959309 CHs 49-51

    "He was also disgusted by the murderer. He did not want to regard him as a human being, but only as a victim to be slaughtered."

    "He was in very truth his own God, and a more splendid
    God than the God that stank of incense and was quartered in
    churches."

    "And though his perfume might allow him to appear before
    the world as a god—if he could not smell himself and thus never
    know who he was, to hell with it, with the world, with himself,
    with his perfume."

    1. inasmuch - to the extent that; insofar as.
    2. conjured - call upon (a spirit or ghost) to appear, by means of a magic ritual.
    3. ephemeral - lasting for a very short time.
    4. zenith - the time at which something is most powerful or successful.
    5. adjuvants - a substance which enhances the body's immune response to an antigen.




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