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From Wikipedia's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume_(novel)) article: "Set in 18th century France, Perfume relates the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born lacking a personal odour (a fact other people find disquieting) but endowed with an incomparable sense of smell, he apprentices himself to a perfumer and becomes obsessed with procuring the perfect scent that will make him fully human. In the process, he creates perfumes-presumably based on pheromones-that powerfully manipulate human emotions, murdering 25 girls to take their scent. Read more"

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