A review by angus_mckeogh
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

3.0

What a strange, strange story. The first three quarters of the book were basically an odd tale about a man creating perfume and all that that entails (outside of one random strangling near the beginning). Then the final quarter just launched into a murderer’s tale, arrest, trial, and subsequent “pied-piper” existence in a somewhat disjointed manner. Almost as if it could have been two completely different stories. So while it was perhaps a little better than average it was a far cry from what I’d classify as one of my favorites.