The Fleeting Realm of Scent

Amusing passages and descriptions found in Perfume, The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind


~ Pungently sweet

~ Rank lion

~ Foundlings

~ Milk and cheesy wool

~ A child with the pox smells like horse manure, one with scarlet fever [smells] like old apples and a consumptive child smells like onions

~ Sentimental cosiness

~ Oyster grey, creamy opal white

~ Greedy little nose

~ Cosy veil of thought

~ Merciless sense of order and justice

~ Uncensorious slap

~ As tough as resistant bacterium

~ His soul required nothing

~ Grotesque incongruities

~ Huge vocabulary of odours

~ Thick gruel of the streets

~ Humbled contentment

~ Disgustingly good

~ Efflorescent, gaseous state

~ Olfactory peace

~ Mountain of solitude

~ Sacred awe

~ Blessedly wonderful

~ Delicious horror

~ Repulsive aperitif

~ Scent-logged
 

Le Vin du Rosier

~ A superwine first created in the year 1900 from grapes grown from the thorn of a rose in a vineyard in Bordeaux.

~ Described as having a trace of vanilla, nutmeg and an oaky finish.

~ The last known bottle of Le Vin du Rosier was brewed in 1985 and valued at £7000 in the year 2000.



"There is a prophecy that grapes grown from the thorn of a rose will make a wine fit for the Holy Father himself"


* Inspired by an episode of Black Books: Grapes of Wrath *

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