Jean Baptist Grenouille, the protagonist in the novel Perfume by Patrick Süsskind, is born and abandoned by his mother in a stinking fish market in Paris. Only his extraordinarily sensitive nose keeps him alive, yet he discovers that he emits no scent himself. In search of an ideal olfactory identity, Grenouille carries out multiple murders to collect the essence of his victims into a unique and irresistible perfume. At the hour of his greatest triumph and his death, he realizes that his perfume is not his own identity but only an artificial olfactory identity that finally attracts the attention of his environment.