Legendary Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain said Patrick Süskind’s novel “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” was his favourite book, probably because the protagonist, Grenouille, has such a murderous hankering for the smell of teen spirit. The story follows Grenouille, who is, in turn, following his preternatural nose through 18th-century France. Born odourless and orphaned in a Paris slum, Grenouille can smell everything except himself. Entranced by the art of perfumery amidst the miasma of the city our anti-hero sets out to learn his craft, but everything changes when he gets his first whiff of love.

Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:

• "Perfume" by Patrick Süskind
• “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson
• “A Passage North” by Anuk Arudpragasam
• "In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" by Marcel Proust

Additional segments throughout the podcast include:

• Inner Shelf
• Fact or fiction
• What are you reading?
• On that Quote

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