Perfume is a book where the story is fiction yet it can be real. That's why I want to turn it into a folk tale that will be fiction yet might sound realistic to the hearer.

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        Perfume by Patrick Suskind is a fictional story about smell and its relation to other senses and  above all it's a story of identity of the human spirit. The story features a character named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a perfume apprentice in 18th century France who, born with no body scent himself, seeks to find the ultimate scent. He finds a young girl named Laure and finds that her scent is the best thing he has ever smelled so he seeks to extract it from her via killing her. However she has not bloomed yet so he decides to wait for 2 years in which he turns the techniques of perfumery and goers on a killing spree of 20 virgins.

        Perfume is a book where the story is fiction yet it can be real. That's why I want to turn it into a folk tale that will be fiction yet might sound realistic to the hearer. The story would be about Grenouille and how it created the ultimate smell yet did he? That is for the teller to say and for the hearer to interpret. I will be looking at the scene where Grenouille sprays himself with his "ultimate perfume" during the trial and after the spraying, people at the city of Grasse are convinced that he was not the murderer and the break out into a city wide orgy. I want to make a folk tale where one tells of the story of the event and talks about it in a magical tone of voice as if it were a magical event.

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Folk Tale

        Far, far away in France, very long ago, there lived a man named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. They say he was a simple man but with an extraordinary talent, the talent of smell. They say he has the sense of smell of a bloodhound or maybe even a bear. They say he can find a scent of any person, that he can tract them and follow them, just by finding their sense of smell. They say he can dissect smells into hundreds of smaller smells and then into thousands of even smaller smells until he is at the base ingredients ...

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