This book should be titled "Perfume: A Literary Glorifiction of Scent" This was deffinitely NOT a story about a murderer. The title lies! I think I must have read 50 pages about the processes of extracting scent! If I wanted to educate myself I would have opened Google -_-. 
 The Good News: 
 - What an interesting and different plot. A man with no scent that can smelll EVERYTHING including glass. I was especially interested in this because I have a really good sense of smell so I was really amazed at Grenouilles perception of life through his nose. 
 - Grenouille. Suskind created a very strange creature with Grenouille. He is not human. So unbelievably not human that I don't know how any man could think him up. I loved Grenouille, he's so single minded so efficient and determined, so filled with contempt with the human race. 
 - The ending was really odd. Befitting of the story surely and kinda ironic. But really, really.. odd. 
 The Bad News: 
 - Big bulks of story telling and little to no dialogue. This is just something I don't enjoy in books. 
 - Too much talk about perfume and scent extraction that I went to sleep in some chapters 
 - The characters are too shallow. I know this was done on purpose, but I didnt feel connected to anything in the story. 
 Conclusion: 
 This is a very strange little book. Interesting for sure but a little bit slow and boring. It's not a light read. I think if I went into it knowing it's more of a piece of lit. than a murder story, then I would have enjoyed it more. It's a good book to read. Different.