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	Perfume (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 1985 literary historical horror novel (originally published in German as Das Parfum) by German writer Patrick Süskind.
		In the process, he creates perfumes - presumably based on pheromones - that powerfully manipulate human emotions, murdering 25 girls to take their scent.
		The book features detailed descriptions of the techniques of scent extraction such as maceration and enfleurage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perfume_(book) (308 words)

	Perfume - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, objects, and living spaces a pleasant smell.
		Included in the perfume are fixatives, which bind the various fragrances together, such as balsams, ambergris, and secretions from the scent glands of the civet cat and musk deer (undiluted, these have unpleasant smells but in alcoholic solution they act as preserving agents).
		As such perfumes are best preserved when kept in light-tight aluminium bottles or in their original packaging when not in use, and refrigerated at a relatively low temperatures between 3-7 degrees celsius.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perfume (4945 words)

	PErfume
		Set in eighteenth-century France, Perfume explores the evolution of a remorseless killer during an era of intense contradictions, an age in which poverty, filth, and superstition coexisted uneasily with the Enlightenment's ideals of progress, liberty, and reason.
		But he is driven to an even greater goal and begins a ghastly series of murders, robbing the most beautiful virgin girls in the town of their scents to concoct a perfume capable of making everyone, even the father of one of his victims, love and revere the wearer.
		Perfume is set in eighteenth-century France and tells an extravagant story of a man possessed with a magical sense of smell and a bizarrely destructive obsession.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/perfume (1207 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Patrick Suskind - El Perfume: Historia De UN Asesino at Epinions.com
		Eventually he forces his way into an apprenticeship at a failing perfumer, where he turns the business around by being able to come up with new scents that the public goes crazy about (see a feeble attempt at critiquing the pre-capitalist society and the nascent seeds of the spectacle).
		The book has the makings of being an interesting story, unfortunately the brilliant language the esteemed critics praised was not present.
		For example ten percent of the book is devoted to describing in way too much detail the life of the master perfumer the future murderer studies under.
	www.epinions.com /content_107406003844 (1517 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on perfume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, objects, and living spaces a lasting and pleasant smell.
		Included in the perfume are fixatives, which bind the various fragrances together, include balsams, ambergris, and secretions from the scent glands of civets and musk deer (undiluted, these have unpleasant smells but in alcoholic solution they act as preserving agents).
		Perfumers were also known to create poisons; for instance, a French duchess was murdered when a perfume/poison was rubbed into her gloves and was, thus, slowly absorbed into her skin.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/perfume (4034 words)

	perfume books :: Now Smell This (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The text provides background on the history of the Guerlain family and their illustrious perfume house, but a die-hard perfume fanatic may find it too brief and general to be of much interest.
		Turin's book will focus on the history of this controversy and pay homage to those before him who "got it right", although as he acknowledges, the jury is still out on the matter.
		The book is about science, will touch on perfume composition only tangentially, and will mostly be about molecules, their smell, and the decipherment of the smell code.
	nowsmellthis.blogharbor.com /blog/perfumebooks/start=2005-08-12 (569 words)

	Perfumer's Bibliography
		1 The HandR Book of Perfume : Julia Muller
		The book is good for those interested in an academic style of training and a must read for those thinking of starting their own business in the field of perfumery.
		The book is let down by it's poor binding and both copies that I have used have fallen apart within a few months of using - I hope this is not the only edition of the book that appears, but hopefully next time in a good binding - not necessarily a hard back though.
	www.perfumersworld.com /books/books.htm (653 words)

	Perfume Books Perfume Bottle Collectors books for Sale
		This book is unquestionably one-of-a-kind, appealing not only to the collector but to anyone who has ever experienced the magic of what these special bottles have to offer in addition to the fragrances they contain.
		While collectors of full-sizes perfume bottles have always found a place for a few choice "minis" on their shelves, these are a growing trend to specialize in these little beauties in their own right.
		This magnificent new book explores the history of the perfume bottle, from dusty fragments found in Mesopotamian ruins, through the Middle Ages and the Victorian era, to the most resplendent examples of modern glassmaking.
	www.facticeworld.com /perfume_books.htm (2201 words)

	Perfume by Patrick Suskind - Book
		I beleive that Perfume is better qualified as a "bildungsroman" or as historical fiction rather than fantasy as it draws upon many truths and tells a disturbing yet none the less a beautiful story that is completely within the historical context.
		While I am unsure as to whether 'Perfume' qualifies as a fantasy novel it must be said that it is an absolutely brilliant story, able to capture the reader from the word go, as well as being quite unlike any story I have ever read before.
		Perfume, the story of a murderer, is a tribute to the mind and imagination of Patrick Suskind, who so wonderfully combined all of the elements needed to sustain a great story.
	www.sffworld.com /book/2227.html (658 words)

	Perfume by Patrick Suskind, John E. Woods, John E. Woods (Translator) - 0375725849
		In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell.
		As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs.
		But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0375725849 (270 words)

	Review - Perfume by Patrick Suskind
		In the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell.
		I was loaned this book by a colleague and told that it was very good, but I just found it to be a bit weird.
		It is all about a man called Grenouille who has no personal odour, not as a baby nor as an adult, whose sense of smell is acute and as such he is able to recognise and create smells that appeal to other people.
	www.booklore.co.uk /PastReviews/SuskindPatrick/Perfume/PerfumeReview.htm (508 words)

	Book Page
		This book tells of the acquisition, the rebuilding and the occupation of the house by 'Madame'; more than that it depicts the very life of Provence, its exasperations, its smiles and its charm.
		The book, telling of Sir John and Lady Fortescue's life in Provence, also gave tantalising glimpses of what had gone before and, finally, after Sir John's death, Lady Fortescue wrote the full story of her life and most particularly of her meeting and marriage with John Fortescue.
		You must read the book to understand the difficulties under which it was written and the changes in tense, sometimes in the present and sometimes in the past, her work for France always taking precedence and causing the book to be lain aside for months at a time.
	www.perfumefromprovence.com /bookpage.htm (1840 words)

	The Book of Perfume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is hard to believe that one of the original primary functions of perfume at its inception in the late 1500's was to mask the odor of tanned skins used for the large glove making industry in, where else, Provence, France.
		She didn't create a perfume at first, because she knew that would defeat her purpose; she created perfumed bath oil.
		It has very unique information like a section on classifying name brand perfumes by the seven fragrance families, citrus, floral, fougere, (a combination of lavender and moss), chypre, (a combination of bergamot and moss), woody, amber, and leather.
	www.mountainvalleygrowers.com /books/thebookofperfume.htm (379 words)

	Perfume 2000 Book Reviews
		This book, containing information on hundreds of bottles, is a must for any collector of perfume bottles, from the hobbyist, to the veteran collector....
		Among the profusion of books on aromatherapy available today The Encyclopedia of Aromatherapy is the first to explore the many aspects of this multi-faceted healing art in a single, up-to-date, highly illustrated volume...
		The World of Perfume traces the evolution of perfume throughout history and takes an unprecedented look at fragrance in all its incarnations, from its use as a cure for the plague in the Middle Ages to the multi-billion dollar industry that it represents today...
	www.perfume2000.com /books/libraryIndex.asp (937 words)

	Jitterbug Perfume (REISSUE) by Tom Robbins, ISBN: 0553348981 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If you like a book that pulls you in and makes love to your imagination, this is the first on the list.
		I'm the sort of person that enjoys the writing style of books often more so than the stories they tell, but I found Robbin's style to be overly clever, like he was trying too hard to keep the reader interested by using witty remarks.
		The "moral" of the book was fair enough, but I walked away from it thinking, "That's it?" It didn't leave me inclined to read another book by Robbins because there was so little reward in having finished Jitterbug Perfume.
	www.campusi.com /isbn_0553348981.htm (707 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Perfume: Books: Patrick Suskind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.
		For, as the title suggests, this is a book about smells ranging from exotic colognes to ground glass.
		I had to read this for my local book group and will die content if I never have to open its covers again after the group discussion is over.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Perfume-Patrick-Suskind/dp/0141023597 (1029 words)

	Jungle Book Perfume for Kids by Air Val International
		Jungle Book Perfume by Air Val International, Jungle Book from the Disney collection was created by the design house of Air Val International.
		The Jungle Book is a soft, fresh fragrance, is a bouquet of innocence with a burst of joyfull, fruity notes.
		The Jungle Book is appropriate for kids of all ages, to be used as a baby cologne or a teenager's perfume.
	store.perfumes4all.com /jubopeforkib.html (1261 words)

	Patrick Süskind: Perfume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Grenouille's strange relationship to odors is further highlighted by his own extremely sharp sense of smell, caused, perhaps, by the lack of necessity to sense past his own smell.
		By following Grenouille from his birth, when his mother abandoned him to death among the discarded fish guts through his childhood when he discovered how different he was to his apprenticeship, Süskind is able to evoke several different emotions from the reader, ranging from sympathy for the young orphan to curiosity to disgust and hatred.
		Perfume can't be compared to anything written before it because its premise is so different in many ways than what has come before.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/perfume.html (465 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Perfume (Patrick Suskind)
		People stank of sweat and unwashed clothes; from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and tumorous disease.
		Suskind lavishes words on the scents and stenches of 18th-century France; the level of detail that he pours forth is remarkable both for its volume and for the apparent lack of repetition.
		While Perfume for the most part stays well within the realm of plausibility, the conclusion of the novel is something of a mess.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/SuskindPatrickPerfume.shtml (526 words)

	Across the Perfume River - The Boston Globe
		Sullivan takes a room in a hotel across the Perfume River from Thuy's family, who lives inside the walls of the imperial citadel.
		The book is a masterful blend of travelogue, love story, memoir, and cultural anthropology, with a dash of guidebook and phrasebook thrown in.
		Ten years from now, I hope to read the sequel to this book, the flip side, the States-side, the return, the dis-Orientation.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/02/08/across_the_perfume_river (891 words)

	Perfume - Book Review
		This book is set in Paris during the 18th century.
		People were very dirty back then and constantly wore perfume or other similar products to cover up their body odour.
		He is a servant for a perfumer named Baldini and makes perfumes for him to sell, but gets no credit for his work.
	www.smartgirl.org /reviews/books/302100.html (265 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Jitterbug Perfume: Books: Tom Robbins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		At its most basic, this book is a celebration of the sense of smell, and all the heart memories attached to scent.
		It is also a joyous romp, encompassing the rampant eroticism of a greek god suffering the blues, the surprising secret ingredient of the most popular perfume in the world, and the quest for eternal youth through proper breathing techniques and long, hot baths.
		This book is like a fairy tale that takes you through 100s of years of history and takes you to many different worlds - from Europe to India to America.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Jitterbug-Perfume-Tom-Robbins/dp/1842430351 (1013 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume at Epinions.com
		Jitterbug Perfume is the book that I tell friends to read when they indicate to me that they are interested in something a little different, a book off the beaten track, something that is going to take them on an unexpected journey.
		I am aware, having given this book to a fair number of people to read, that the response tends generally to be all or nothing.
		This book is hard to put down, because the twists and intersectings of the plots, and the interest level of the events will keep you reading.
	www.epinions.com /content_223984782980 (1251 words)

	Amazon.com: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Vintage International): Books: Patrick Suskind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In leisurely, aristocratic measures soaked with irony, PERFUME unfolds the gruesome, picaresque allegory of an olfactory genius-monster--a murderous perfumer of decadent eighteenth-century France.
		Flawlessly written and drenched in irony, Perfume tells a haunting tale of a man reminiscent of the Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast (beast), and even Faust.
		Perfume is a bizarre tale, but it is also lyrical and hypnotic--almost a fairy tale of terror.
	www.amazon.com /Perfume-Story-Murderer-Vintage-International/dp/0375725849 (1831 words)

	Perfumed Prose: Jolique.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In her opinion, there are few things better than a good book, a comfy sofa and a glass of wine on a cold day (except perhaps a hot man and a warm bed!).
		Although she is constantly feeding her bookworm habit by reading new books, she often re-reads many of her favorites, and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Süskind, is no exception.
		Jolique read this book more than ten years ago, and this week, she dusted off the dustcover once again.
	www.jolique.com /book_reviews/perfumed_prose.htm (352 words)

	CZECHOSLOVAKIAN PERFUME BOTTLES & BOUDOIR ACCESSORIES
		With the addition of this new material, the book has expanded from 128 to 164 pages.
		Collector interest in perfume bottles has mushroomed, and many beautiful examples were made in Czechoslovakia.
		This book provides essential information to collectors, and it is a visual delight to all lovers of beauty.
	www.collectorbookstore.com /Shop/Control/Product/fp/vpid/649659/vpcsid/0/SFV/25130 (248 words)

	Jitterbug perfume. - book reviews National Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The book's merits were perceived, however, by Luther Nichols and his chief at Double-day, the genial Sam Vaughan.
		Not until it was published in paperback by Ballantine Books did this novel begin to find its audience, mostly among young readers.
		As for characters, there is a French perfume merchant, a "genius" waitress, a Bohemiam king, New Orleans revelers, and an assortment of others who are cosmically connected in a universe that does not add up perfectly.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v37/ai_3831980 (665 words)

	Amazon.ca: Collectible Miniature Perfume Bottles: Books: Anne Breton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Famous perfumers, fashion designer film stars, and celebrities have all introduced perfumes presented in exquisite packaging designed to enchant and seduce the public.
		The miniature perfume bottle began as a purely commercial offshoot, but soon became a popular collector's item as an immensely covetable object in its own right.
		Featuring over five hundred color photographs, Collectible Miniature Perfume Bottles is a treasure trove of beautiful flacons dating from the nineteenth century to the present day, presented in thematic chapters covering classic, designer, popular, trademark and celebrity perfume bottles.
	www.amazon.ca /Collectible-Miniature-Perfume-Bottles-Breton/dp/2080106325 (339 words)

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