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The Scent of Young Womanhood Author: Patrick Suskind Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born into filth, unwanted. His mother was executed for attempting to kill him. Grenouille was passed from one church to another, one nurse to another, but everyone found something about him, even as a child, that was unsettling, wrong. The infant had no smell, and this was, they felt, a harbinger of something altogether inhuman. Something other and twisted. They were not wrong. While Grenouille has no scent of his own, he has a powerful gift. He can decipher and catalog odors in a way that no other can. Odors [...]