About the book: 2002 / This is "Perfume". A cult novel that needs no introduction. Published for the first time in Switzerland in 1985, it immediately gained wild popularity and continues to occupy a strong place in the top ten world bestsellers to this day. Today its author, Patrick Suskind, is a real star of intellectual fashion, one of the leaders of the artistic establishment of the Old and New Worlds. Not a single writer writing in German has seen such a rapid rise in recent times..