In fact, he didn’t obtain the rights until the year 2001, at a cost of 10 million euros. The friendship between the author and Eichinger should have led to a favourable and swift outcome, but it was not to be. After reading the first edition of the novel in 1985, the producer Bernd Eichinger wanted to buy the rights to the film.The film Perfume: History of a Murderer, is based on the 1985 novel of the same name by the German author Patrick Suskind, which has become a worldwide best-seller and been translated into over 45 languages.On his arrival, he achieves his objective: to create a perfume based on the essence of young girls who live in the city, whom he kills and mutilates in order to obtain it. Baldini becomes rich from the perfumes that Grenouille creates for him and, in exchange, writes a letter of recommendation for him so that he can learn the art of enfleurage in the world’s perfume capital, Grasse. However, Grenouille wants to go even further and capture the scent of objects such as glass and the scent of women in particular. At the age of 20, after working in a tannery, he is apprenticed to the perfumer Baldini, who teaches him to distil essences. He is blessed with outstanding olfactory senses. He spends his childhood in orphanages where he is rejected by his wet nurses and fellow orphans, due to his lack of bodily scent and his obsession with seeing the world through the aroma of things. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born in a market surrounded by the remains of rotting fish and abandoned by his mother among the rubbish.
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