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A 1985 [[Lit Fic|Gothic novel]] by Patrick Süskind, ''Perfume'' (or ''Das Parfüm'' in the original German) tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an orphan and a sociopath born into 18th century France. It turns out that Grenouille has an extraordinary smell, but, curiously, he himself has no body odour.
Fittingly enough he becomes a perfumer, eagerly learning various methods to extract the smell from all kinds of things. It is then when he decides to create the most perfect perfume ever by capturing the scents of virginal girls, a [[Glamour|fragrance so beautiful]] that [[Love Is in
It was adapted into a 2006 film: ''Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'', directed by Tom Tykwer, most known for his film ''[[
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=== The book and film ''Perfume'' provide examples of: ===
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* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Antoine Richis, played by Alan Rickman, is an effective community leader and loving father trying to stop Grenouille's rampage.
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Grenouille is most entranced by the scents of the Plum Girl and Laura, both redheads, though he feels no romantic interest in them. It's played straight in the book, however, as Grenouille smells "the scent of love" from the Plum Girl.
* [[Hoist
* [[Implacable Man]]: Grenouille tracks Laura across the countryside by smell, on foot, past all her father's defenses, right into her bedroom.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: {{spoiler|After Grenouille empties his bottle of perfume over his head, a nearby crowd is so overwhelmed by Grenouille's concentrated beauty that they completely devour him ''out of love''.}}
* [[Lonely At the Top]]: {{spoiler|Grenouille's completed perfume gives him the power to rule the world, but he realizes that it won't make him happy, so he commits suicide instead.}}
* [[Love Is in
* [[Mad Artist]]: The central concept of the film: Grenouille makes the world's most beautiful perfume through murder.
* [[Magic Realism]]: Grenouille's sense of smell, the fact that he has no body odour of his own, the lethal misfortunes of all his former keepers, and the effects of his perfume all breach the confines of either possibility or probability.
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* [[Rebellious Princess]]: A noble young lady recently arranged to be married to a man she barely knows, Laura flirts with being rebellious but ultimately obeys her father.
* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: Grenouille's sense of smell allows him to track people over miles of countryside and through twisty alleyways.
* [[Stalker
* [[Suicide
* [[Super Senses]]: Grenouille's sense of smell is so strong that he can smell things like glass, replicate the exact formulae of perfumes, and sense incoming projectiles.
* [[Sympathy for
* [[Traumatic Haircut]]: Grenouille's victims are found with their hair shorn to stubble. Perhaps not so traumatic for the women themselves, who were already dead when it happened and thus past caring, but certainly adding to their debasement and their families' horror.
* [[Trippy Finale Syndrome]]: {{spoiler|Grenouille uses his completed perfume to cause the crowd at his execution to fall into a massive orgy. Later, he dumps the entire bottle over his head, causing a nearby crowd to ''eat him.'' Wow.}}
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