Hailey Telfer’s Reviews > Perfume: The Story of a Murderer > Status Update

Struggling. I’m reading this directly after a lovely experience reading Dorian Gray. Though Perfume is similar in prose and theme, it’s no intellectual match to Wilde’s masterpiece. Suskind does have a talent for olfactory imagery, though, and it’s remarkable how many different ways he can describe humankind’s experiences with scent.