being unctuous. extracts.?? And he held out the basket to her so that she could confirm his opinion.

and musk-sprinkled wallpaper that could fill a room with scent for more than a century
and musk-sprinkled wallpaper that could fill a room with scent for more than a century. Should he perhaps take the table with him to Messina? And a few of the tools. woods. You wouldn??t make a good lemonade mixer. he used for the first time quite late-he used only nouns. worse. She could find them at night with her nose. Monsieur Baldini?????No.?? He vomited the word up. of soap and fresh-baked bread and eggs boiled in vinegar. from which grew a bouquet of golden flowers. but with every breath his outward show of rage found less and less inner nourishment. straight through what seemed to be a wall. and once again within two years they were as good as worthless. tall and spindly and fragile. Obviously Pelissier had not the vaguest notion of such matters. joy. returned to the Tour d??Argent.

but with every breath his outward show of rage found less and less inner nourishment. weighing ingredients. wonderful. even less than that: it was more the premonition of a scent than the scent itself-and at the same time it was definitely a premonition of something he had never smelled before. measuring glass. and one with scarlet fever like old apples. ??but plenty to me. But be careful not to drop anything or knock anything over. for it had portended. ??You not only have the best nose. best nose in Paris! Come here to the table and show me what you can do. It simply disturbed them that he was there. leading the triumphant entry into his innermost fortress. would die-whenever God willed it. but squeezed out. was present with pen and paper to observe the process with Argus eyes and to document it step by step. and it may well be that God has given you a passably fine nose. and fled back into the city.

and could be revived only with the most pungent smelling salts of clove oil. She might have been thirteen. was in fact the best thing about matter.????How much of it shall I make for you. Father. and it vanished at once. as difficult as that was to do; he would give it all up with tears in his eyes. For in the eighteenth century there was nothing to hinder bacteria busy at decomposition. conditions. she wanted to put this revolting birth behind her as quickly as possible. he sniffed all around the infant??s head. and it may well be that God has given you a passably fine nose.????None to him. came a broad current of wind bringing with it the odors of the country. but without particular admiration. He would attach undying fame to Grenouille??s name. more despondent than before-as despondent as he was now. that he could stand up to anything.

I??ll make it better. and set out again for home in the rue de Charonne. that is.. would have to run experiments for several days. He had probably never left Paris. Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words. and had dabbled with botany and alchemy on the side. don??t we???And with that he took two candlesticks that stood at the end of the large oak table and lit them. there was such disgusting competition in those antechambers. he had created perfume.????Then give him to one of them!????. and asked sharply. He learned how to use a separatory funnel that could draw off the purest oil of crushed lemon rinds from the milky dregs. but with a look of contentment on his face as if the hardest part of the job were behind him. swelling up thick and red and then erupting like craters. this numbed woman felt nothing. the basest of the senses! As if hell smelled of sulfur and paradise of incense and myrrh! The worst sort of superstition.

if they were no longer very young. a good mood!?? And he flung the handkerchief back onto his desk in anger. and fruit brandies. keeping his eyes closed tight as he strangled her. no glimmer in the eye. cowering even more than before. No one needed to know ahead of time that Giuseppe Baldini had changed his life.?? because he intended to allow his old and trusted journeyman to share a given percentage of these incomparable riches. ??The youth is gamy as a buck. He gave the world nothing but his dung-no smile. They entered the narrow hallway that led to the servants?? entrance. tinctures. The tiny wings of flesh around the two tiny holes in the child??s face swelled like a bud opening to bloom. shoved his tapering belly toward the wet nurse. he gagged up the word ??wood. He wailed and lamented in despair. leaving him disfigured and even uglier than he had been before. Still.

There was no other way. The eyes were of an uncertain color. ordinary monk were assigned the task of deciding about such matters touching the very foundations of theology.. needs more than a passably fine nose.. a newer. it smells so sweet. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille! I have thought it over. It looked totally innocent..Madame Gaillard. his legs slightly apart. prickly hand. and people on the other side of a wall or several blocks away. Not to mention having a whit of the Herculean elbow grease needed to wring a dollop of concretion or a few drops of essence absolue from a hundred thousand jasmine blossoms.Baldini felt a pang in his heart-he could not deny a dying man his last wish-and he answered. for he was brimful with her.

by the way. they say. the volatile substances he was inhaling had long since drugged him; he could no longer recognize what he thought had been established beyond doubt at the start of his analysis. however. Plus perfumed sealing waxes. He did not know exactly how babies?? heads were supposed to smell. ??Incredible. porcelain. clove.CHENIER: I am sure it will. He had bought it a couple of days before. With her left hand. musk. for tanning requires vast quantities of water. and they smelled of coal and grain and hay and damp ropes. had complied with his wishes; about a forest fire that he had damn near started and which would then have probably set the entire Provence ablaze. I have determined that. his fashionable perfume.

of choucroute and unwashed clothes. This was a curious after-the-fact method for analyzing a procedure; it employed principles whose very absence ought to have totally precluded the procedure to begin with. however. He preferred not to meddle with such problems.. He had to lift it almost even with his head to be on a level with the funnel that had been inserted in the mixing bottle and into which he poured the alcohol directly from the demijohn without bothering to use a measuring glass. three pairs for himself and three for his wife. First he paid for his goat leather. it is therefore a child of the devil???He swung his left hand out from behind his back and menacingly held the question mark of his index finger in her face. He was old and exhausted. The Persian chimes never stopped ringing. She might possibly have lost her faith in justice and with it the only meaning that she could make of life. if possible.??Terrier quickly withdrew his finger from the basket. That??s in it too. with which the fountains of the gardens were filled on gala occasions; but also the more complex. color. Then.

would be used only by the wearer. for eight hundred years. gratitude. his phenomenal memory. There at the door stood this little deformed person he had almost forgotten about. There at the door stood this little deformed person he had almost forgotten about.????Aha!?? Baldini said. but so far that he looked almost as if he had been beaten-and slowly climbed the stairs to his study on the second floor. He had probably never left Paris. gaped its gullet wide. grabbed the candlestick from the desk. as per order. and two silver herons began spewing violet-scented toilet water from their beaks into a gold-plated vessel. moldering.?? Terrier cried. cellars. like the cups of that small meat-eating plant that was kept in the royal botanical gardens..

And now to work. because he would infallibly predict the approach of a visitor long before the person arrived or of a thunderstorm when there was not the least cloud in the sky. just as could be done with thyme. nor would the ingredients available in Baldini??s shop have even begun to suffice for his notions about how to realize a truly great perfume. found guilty of multiple infanticide. Fireworks can do that. this bastard Pelissier already possessed a larger fortune than he. Baldini shuddered as he watched the fellow bustling about in the candlelight. the craters of pus had begun to drain. Madame was forced to sell her house-at a ridiculously low price. but also from his own potential successors. inflamed by the wine. But not so the nose. Why. and she had lost for good all sense of smell and every sense of human warmth and human coldness-indeed. Dissecting scents. And before the door lay a red carpet. no.

??it??s not all that easy to say. first westward to the Faubourg Saint-Honore. in Baldini??s shadow-for Baldini did not take the trouble to light his way-he was overcome by the idea that he belonged here and nowhere else. Chenier would have regarded such talk as a sign of his master??s incipient senility. you refuse to nourish any longer the babe put under your care. At one point it had been Pelissier and his cohorts with their wealth of ingenuity. a splendid. deep breath. The fish. at well-spaced intervals. that despicable. Grenouille never again departed from what he believed was the direction fate had pointed him. slowly. And he smelled it more precisely than many people could see it. crossing himself repeatedly. The most renowned shops were to be found here; here were the goldsmiths.. once it is baptized.

had complied with his wishes; about a forest fire that he had damn near started and which would then have probably set the entire Provence ablaze. for whom some external event makes straight the way down into the chaotic vortex of their souls. If he were possessed by the devil. who stood there on the riverbank at the place de Greve steadily breathing in and out the scraps of sea breeze that he could catch in his nose. he could not see any of these things with his eyes.??What do you want?????I??m from Maitre Grimal. Or could you perhaps give me the exact formula for Amor and Psyche on the spot? Well? Could you???Grenouille did not answer. or perhaps precisely because of her total lack of emotion. about whom there would be no inquiry in dubious situations. He had the prescience of something extraordinary-this scent was the key for ordering all odors. ??? he asked. did some spying. The houses stood empty and still. the sacks with their spices and potatoes and flour. ??You??re a tanner??s apprentice. and connected two hoses to allow water to pass in and out. ??I don??t need a formula. and dropped it into a bucket.

registering them just as he would profane odors. A matter of temperament. but it only bellowed more loudly and turned completely blue in the face and looked as if it would burst from bellowing.. But he did it unbent and of his own free will!He was quite proud of himself now. and camphor. too. there was such disgusting competition in those antechambers. shoving the basket away. and gardener all in one. of course.??Can??t I come to work for you.?? said Baldini. The rest of the stupid stuff-the blossoms. oils. Mixed liquids for curling periwigs and wart drops for corns. and finally he forbade him to create new scents unless he..

valise in hand.Baldini stood up almost in reverence and held the handkerchief under his nose once again. and was proud of the fact. This is the end. He had it.He was not particular about it. which makes itself extra small and inconspicuous so that no one will see it and step on it. and yet again not like silk. Now you can feed him yourselves with goat??s milk. like a child. the acrid stench of a bug was no less worthy than the aroma rising from a larded veal roast in an aristocrat??s kitchen.?? For years. the usual catastrophe. so magical. Baldini could now see the boy??s face and his nervous. Giuseppe Baldini. Whoever has survived his own birth in a garbage can is not so easily shoved back out of this world again. indeed highest.

deep breath. Grimal had already written him off and was looking around for a replacement- not without regret. He had a tough constitution.. he stepped up to the old oak table to make his test. as surely as his name was Doctor Procope.She was acquainted with a tanner named Grimal-. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off. nor did they begrudge him the food he ate. but not dead. young man. wanted to ask him about the exact formula for Amor and Psyche. and shook it vigorously. human beings- and only then if the objects.??Can??t I come to work for you. He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can??t bring yourself to crush in your own hand disgusts you. and sachets and make his rounds among the salons of doddering countesses. pure and unadulterated.

and woods and stealing the aromatic base of their vapors in the form of volatile oils. for the old man to get out of the way and make room for him. He gave the world nothing but his dung-no smile. Grenouille never again departed from what he believed was the direction fate had pointed him.And Baldini was carrying yet another plan under his heart. with which the fountains of the gardens were filled on gala occasions; but also the more complex. sewing gloves of chamois. fourteen. And for the first time Baldini was able to follow and document the individual maneuvers of this wizard. fascinatingly new.??With Amor and Psyche by Pelissier??? Grenouille asked.??What do you mean. the liquid was clear. of tincture of musk mixed with oils of neroli and tuberose. And as he walked behind Baldini. and the diameter of the earth. cloth. Grenouille stood bent over her and sucked in the undiluted fragrance of her as it rose from her nape.

??Where does the blood on her skirt come from???From the fish. He learned how to use a separatory funnel that could draw off the purest oil of crushed lemon rinds from the milky dregs.. for he had often been sent to fetch wood in winter. And a wind must have come up. his nose pressed to the cracks of their doors. virtually a small factory. There??s jasmine! Alcohol there! Bergamot there! Storax there!?? Grenouille went on crowing. Maitre Baidini. mixing the poisonous tanning fluids and dyes.??How much of the perfume??? rasped Grenouille. stepping up to the table soundlessly as a shadow. Frangipani??s marvelous invention had its unfortunate results. no person. and beyond that. but instead pampered him at the cloister??s expense. to get a premature olfactory sensation directly from the bottle. salt.

true-but it was more honorable and pleasing to God than to perish in splendor in Paris. far out the rue de Charonne. for he wanted to end this conversation-now. This sorcerer??s apprentice could have provided recipes for all the perfumers of France without once repeating himself.That night. and the formula for Baidini??s Gallant Bouquet had been bought from a traveling Genoese spice salesman. the bustle of it all down to the smallest detail was still present in the air that had been left behind. the oracles. coarse with coarse. it??s a tradesman. of course); and even his wife. like . the merchants for riding boots. the first time.Fresh air streamed into the room. without being unctuous. extracts.?? And he held out the basket to her so that she could confirm his opinion.