Perfume by Patrick Suskind

I just found out...Perfume movie rights have been sold to , not Ridley Scott, but German film director Tykwer--he did "run lola run". And ... the role of jean-baptiste grennouille will not be played by leonardo dicaprio nor orlando bloom(the better choice of the two) , but a german actor whose name i forgot. The movie is currently being shot in France and Germany. This is not going to stop be from making my own amateur version. I am looking for actors, anyone? This is a movie better left to the amateur filmmakers like myself. There is a gnarly undercurrent of cultural antigenicity in which well known fillmakers must hide from.

has anyone notice that it says perfume: a story of a murder? can anyone explain the significance / why story of a murder is there? thanx

Tony Cook wrote: > Another recommendation from the Top Tens and it's another > corker. I know it's been around a long time and most of you > will have read it - but if you haven't, then do so! Buy it from > Amazon by clicking through from the button on the Front Page! > > A perfect companion would be the book at Number One on my Top > Ten (which will go up when Mark has the time!) - Jitterbug > Perfume by Tom Robbins.

A masterpiece.

Yep, he did say that. I love this place ... it cracks me up.

Nima - run lola run is one of my favourite films of all time so that is very good news. I will await the film with bated breath!

Sorry Oliver - ur out of luck - they have already been bought (for around 10 million US dollars) by Film Consortim. I was also workign on an adaptation and found otu only today!! Let's hope they do a good job

Suskind´s The Pigeon is about someone obsessed by the menacing presence of a bird. What I remember from Perfume is that as a baby he was rejected by his foster mothers because he didn´t smell as a baby should. Since then every time I´ve held a baby I´ve inhaled that typical baby head smell that´s sort of sweet and waxy. It´s a small any mother would know anywhere.

That's the best typo I've seen in ages, Mandy. Keep them coming!

Oh, I just slip these things in now and again to test if anyone´s reading my posts ;-> [%sig%]

I read Perfume a long time ago too... and remember vividly the discovery of a whole new olfactory world.... I love books like that. As for baby head smells... I entirely agree. I sniffed my babies heads immediately after they were born and regularly sniff them now that they are a lot older... it is a wonderful warm, earthy smell and I will never tire of it.

One of the greatest books I've ever read. The way Suskind describes smells makes you picture them exactly. It was so well written that you understand Grenouille and don't think he's crazy. One of those books you HAVE to read.

does anyone have info on the movie rights to this book? we are writing a treatment right now!

What a wonderful book!!!!!!!!! Everyone has to read it... when you're reading it, you enter in other world completely different of yours....... the world of smells...... you can discover a lot of new things about the big olfactory world! =))) READ IT anD bE HapPy******

Perfume is in pre-production at the moment, they haven't started filming yet! Ben Whishaw, an English actor, is Grenouille, Alan Rickman is Richis, and Dustin Hoffman is Baldini. Look at http://imdb.com/title/tt0396171/

Perfume is in pre-production at the moment, they haven't started filming yet! Ben Whishaw, an English actor, is Grenouille, Alan Rickman is Richis, and Dustin Hoffman is Baldini. Look at http://imdb.com/title/tt0396171/ [%sig%]

Iv'e read perfume several times and never have I put the book down without the urge to pick it back up and smell it again. I think that I first heard of it in the early nineties when I was around 14 or so. I saw an interview on mtv with Nirvana and Kurt Cobain was talking about this amazing book hes read. he then realeased an album wich had a song titled scentless apprentice. and drove my curiousity about the book. I bought the book and Im glad I did (actually I have purchased several copies for reasons of sharing this wonderfully written work with all that are interested and everyone that I have given or loaned one too has been inviguored with the same feelings that all of us in this room has :) Patrick Suskind has done an amazing writting this book from the get go when he describes the smells of the market where Grenoille was born and abadoned to the time he spent in the cave, and finally his end.

Great book! I first heard about the book around the time that Marilyn Manson came out w/ the album Anti-Christ Superstar. I had bought a Rock View Interview cd on MM, and he was asked where he got the name for the ep that sweet dreams was on ( smells like children ). He mentioned that it was from 2 things. 1, (I can't fully remember this) Chitty Chitty bang bang, the Child Catcher (I think), and 2 the book Perfume by Mr. Suskind. I was given the book as an 18 th birthday gift, I could not put it down! The cover was that of just a silloette of a disfigured man. I let someone barrow it, and unfortunetly never saw it again. I've talked others into buying the book, but I've never seen the same cover.

Michael Casey 10 Reginald Rd Bearwood Warley B67 5AQ England Email michaelgcasey@hotmail.com Web http://msnusers.com/michaelcasey Internet Story © By Michael Casey So all I had to do was send an email , and then I’d be a writer , my book in every shop , my face smirking from cardboard cutouts of me holding my book aloft . My book had a great title , so it was bound to sell . A Nation Of Shopkeepers was a great title , if only people could remember their History , were people interested in History , and for that matter my book . It wasn’t a history book , would people think it WAS a history book , and then not buy it . It was a comedy drama , about a street of shops , interconnecting short stories , for all the family , but would people notice the levels , the strands of humour , or would they say it’s a Ma & Pa book , and miss the joke , just as one publisher called did ? I decided to keep the title , though I had a reserve title , The Butcher , The Baker and The Undertaker . Then I realised the US market would rename it The Butcher , The Baker And The Funeral Arranger . You don’t think about such things when you are writing the book , you’re just happy , on a roll , in love with your own intellect , or just surprized you actually DO have any intellect , then you discover that you are dyslexic , you really are dyslexic , thankfully not a really bad case , just dyslexic . As you proof read you see you have put BUT instead PUT , LEAD instead of READ , things like this and other strange things . Sure there are spellcheckers but or is it put , you have to check it anyway . As you read you are surprized at your own ability . You didn’t waste 4years in journalism school , but your writing is GOOD , Did I write that ? Then your chest filled with pride you get somebody else to read it , and guess what ? They think its crap . So now you have to decide , should I give up or should I carry on ? I gave up for as while , while is a unit of years in my case , my life took another path , so the writing was forgotten , it lay dormant for years , then like a phoenix it arose , or more truthfully , like a tortoise awaking from hibernation , sleep still in my eyes I slowly poked my head out , then back in , went back to sleep again , then finally with the pangs of hunger in my stomach I just had to do something . In my case it was eat , as in really eat , then I turned to my old Atari and realised it was not PC compatible , so I bought a new , or rather an old new Atari which was PC compatible . Then I spent a day copying my files so that I could read them on a PC . Then I wrote a few more pieces before I realised I’d get nowhere in England . The chances of being published were 1 in 2000 . So like a bear , I went back in my cave and slumbered . Meeting my wife Jing Jie was a turning point in my life , and not just because it was like Thunder as Jing Jie calls it , it was a turning point because I had a professional opinion on my writing , from a journalist at the very top of the tree . Her uncle is an editor in chief , so his comments were and are like gold , worth more than my first coffee and Cadbury’s chocolate , the pleasure rush I treat myself to every day , his comments really were that important to me , and I really DO like my Cadbury’s , so being better than Cadbury’s is the highest praise I can give . So I knew the quality of my writing , even if others said and say its crap . Getting a modern PC and internet connection was another turning point . Email in our house is like water and electic in any other homes . Jing Jie can “talk” to her mum in Shanghai every day . To friends all over the world as well . Birmingham IS the centre of the universe .So with hope and fear I had to transfer my files from my old Atari to the new PC . The floppy discs were old and battered , several were unreadable , finally my work , my babies were safely on the new PC . Just to be on the safe side I set up a website , so now my work was on somebody’s server in the US , thousands of miles away , safe from fire or theft . I could also put our new baby’s photos on the web site so that my Chinese family in Shanghai and Maimi and friends all over the world could see Annie and Jing Jie and me , they could even read my work too . So now all I had to do was market my work in the US , simple really , soon I’d be doing something useful with my life , making people laugh . I’d be a writing whore , I’d get paid to make others laugh , the best job in the world . So how would I set about it ? I got a list of radio stations from the internet and started sending emails galore . I’m talking in the hundreds now , to radio stations the length and breath of the US .They could publicise my site then eventually I’d get published , or my play would get produced . It was simple wasn’t it . So merrily I went about my business , sending emails galore . Years before I used to send off big heavy envelopes with my work in , with more persistance than hope in my heart .”Thank you for your pieces of paper“was the best put down . I once even met a writer and he agreed to to read my play Shoplife , then he wrote back calling me a plagerist , because it was so good . So I used his note as toilet paper , Shoplife was so good because I had 20years of experience given to me by my sister , I just improved on it , but yet I was called a Copyist , so naturally I was angry and used his note to wipe my bum . I wondered why my strike rate was so low with my emails to radio stations , then somebody casually mentioned , “You do know they will just delete anything with an attachment” . In these days of viruses or worms which I’ve discovered is the new trendy word , nobody can risk their PC , so I merrily send and they merrily delete . I’d been wasting my time , but not my money because I’d got a 24/7 package on my internet from AOL .However one radio station did read Shoplife . The DJ or is it Host , he called it hilarious and he could not stop reading it . It turned out he was an actor as well , though isn’t everybody an actor in the US ? So I thanked him , and quoted him in my future advertising .Humour is a funny thing . The things that make English people laugh are not the same as the things that make Americans’ laugh . We are constantly told by people on tv that English TV is the best in the world , the US material we see is the top 10% , the rest is rubbish . But I know I’d never get my foot in the door in England so I had to persist with my American campaign , so now I pasted in my material , no attachments . Just get them hooked , then paste in a sample then direct them to http://msnusers.com/michaelcasey Then bingo part2 of my life could begin ,I’d be the man that made America laugh , a naïve sentiment , but it was honest .Only AOL turns things into zip files and some people cann’t unzip your files , its like wanting sex but your zipper is broke and you cann’t get your trousers off . Such a strong urge , but no forfillment . I switched to MSMAIL and pasted in my stuff , things started to happen , my files weren’t being deleted or too zipped up to be read . At least I wasn’t frustrated any more . Now I had an agent interested , and a new magazine , even a theatre replied .All praise to Bill Gates , and to a Christian called Pat Verato who pointed me in the direction of a few good sites .However some of the sites that I trawled through were just , so very American . Hey , you too can be a writer , just send me 10 dollars and I’ll send you my book “How to make 10 dollars” , and he does . Then there’s magazines you can subscribe to , yes you’ve guessed it , just send another 10 dollars “Writing for Beginners” . There’s all these agents too who are so successful , persuading tap dancing bus drivers to write about Tap Dancing For Bus Drivers , the complete self help book , costs 10 dollars . The agent gets 20percent , and the bus driver pays 5000dollars to print 500 copies , then he can boast he’s a writer , not just a bus driver , and guess what if you pay 10 dollars you can learn to tap dance too . As for me , what do I think of all this ? I’d say just keep on writing , stop your selling , or attempts at selling , just write a bit . Add to your catologue of 3 poems and 2 short stories , then search for an agent . Believe you’ll never be published and then you won’t be disappointed. There is one final thing you can do though , just tell everybody to go to http://msnusers.com/michaelcasey And help find a publisher for my book , and then you’ve guessed it , just send me 10 dollars ! End

I read and "disected" this book when I was at Uni. The olfactory experience is amazing. You never quite "look" at things in the same way after having read this book. Definitely worth reading at least once. However, the book isn't just about the olfactory sense, just take a closer look at what else is going on.

I loved Perfume, it stayed with me like a blast of Opium after I'd read it - not all pleasant... Have Jitterbug Perfume as well but can't get into it.

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I loved that book too - and I don't even wear perfume - makes me sneeze... I believe it's being made into a film....what's the betting they have scratch and sniff cinema tickets [%sig%]

Yes, read this years ago - certainly one of those books that stays in the memory.

Just thought I'd mention, there are some good reviews here:

es un libro magnifio por como asesina a las mujeres sinseramente no tengo palabras para describirlo ami me encanto y solo espero que las de mes personas que lo lean les guste como ami.Tony Cook wrote: [%sig%]

es un libro magnifio por como asesina a las mujeres sinseramente no tengo palabras para describirlo ami me encanto y solo espero que las de mes personas que lo lean les guste como ami.Tony Cook wrote:

I read this one many years ago, but as others have noted, I can still recall it well. Too bad the author hasn't come up with much since then. There seem to be very few people who have not read this book.

While reading Perfume, I did have the urge to pull my Jitterbug Perfume copy from the shelf and it seems others here have had the same experience. Of course its not a big leap, the immedidate parallel being olfactory and all. Jitterbug was published in 1984, quite some time after Perfume, so I wonder if Tom Robbins wasn't at least inspired by the Suskind. Anyway, they both have a similar theme; while Robbins theme is immortality, Suskind makes Grenouille God like. They are both completely over the top as well,! And certainly an ovation must go to both authors for coming up with so many adjectives to describe smell.

I would love to see this as a motion picture. And if this book is not adapted into a movie very soon , i guess , then ... i will have to do something about it. Amateur or not!