With this, Grenouille escapes.Īfter leaving Grasse, Grenouille has created enough of the perfume so to conquer the world should he feel like it. Despite this, Grenouille escapes by using his perfect perfume smell to make the crowd believe he is an angel, driving the crowd into a massive orgy fueled by the "love" they feel for him, thus making himself noticed.
However, he is later captured and sentenced to be executed via hanging. In the meantime, Grenouille also pursues and murders several other young women in an attempt to reclaim their scents (such as the woman in the film he attempts to preserve within a tank).Įventually, he takes advantage of his lack of body odor to murder and claim Laura's smell while remaining undetected. Over time, Grenouille makes his way to Grasse wherein he follows the scent of the alluring Laura, desiring to recapture her scent in the ultimate perfume. While initially depressed over the matter, he is encouraged to go to Grasse and Baldini perishes following Grenouille's leave. To accomplish this goal, Grenouille becomes the apprentice of Baldini, a master perfumer, and works to create the perfect scent (although he finds that Baldini's machinery nor his own normally scent-isolating sense of smell will function for other such scents as iron and a cat thrown in as an experiment). Back in the tanner's building, he pledges to recreate the scent and becomes fixated on women who smell in a similar way.
He pursues her for the scene that draws him and kills her via smothering so he can continue to smell her (particularly focusing on her breasts in the film) until the attractive scent is lost. He eventually becomes a tanner's apprentice and becomes fixated on the body odor of a young woman selling plums. In the novel, however, he is passed over several wet nurses who reject him for lacking a body odor. His cries, however, notify the authorities who place him within an orphanage while hanging her for attempted infanticide. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born in Paris on Jto a woman working at the fish stall who, after having given birth to stillborns and semi-stillborns, decides to leave him for dead.
He was portrayed by Ben Whishaw in the film, who also voiced Gil Yepes in The Prodigies. He is an apprentice perfumer with a heightened sense of smell but no smell of his own, and so seeks to create the "perfect scent" by killing beautiful, virginal women and distilling their blood. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is the titular villainous main protagonist of the 1985 Patrick Süskind novel Perfume and its subsequent 2006 film adaptation Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
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