[DeepL Translation - needs review] 25th anniversary commemorative edition.
Perhaps smells evoke the privilege of invisibility. Before touch, smell comes first, as the messenger of an essence that knows how to disappear in the air and be the agent of great power. The seduction that scent unfolds is implacable: it settles in us and seals its power in the tissues of memory.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille has his birthmark: he does not give off any odor and therefore makes us fear the presence of a d...
