Perfume. Grenouille struggles along lifes journeys to acquire the requisite knowledge to become the best perfumer in the world. Against all odds, Grenouilles hope and steadfast will to survive eventually lead him to achieve his dream.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an atrocity from birth, is one of the oddest people in eighteenth-century France. Grenouille is born on top of fish guts in the most rancid spot in Paris. Grenouille's mother does not want anything to do with him and confesses to have rather let him die. Grenouille, however, survives out of shear spite. Besides having to endure his own birth in a garbage can, Grenouille grows up suffering from a rather unfortunate physical abnormality. He spends his early life walking aimlessly around with a hunchback and a crippled foot. He lives encapsulated in his own little cocoon and despises humankind. Grenouille is born without any control over his wellbeing and has no money or family to turn to. Yet, Grenouille is unique - though he has no scent of his own, he has an incredible gift of smell. Because of this gift, Grenouille hopes to one day become the greatest perfumer in the world. Hope, in turn, inspires his will to live. Although he is dealt a rotten hand in life, Grenouille steadfastly clings to hope and life.