This is the story behind my song 'Perfume'. The background picture is my well travelled and well weathered copy. One of the only books I have read over and over again. I can't explain my fascination with it apart from that I have a strange attraction to such a sick, twisted story line, examining a darker side of life, and written with such conviction that you actually feel compassion for this horrible man who is a spiteful murderer.

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Suskind

Not the only inspired one:

Unfortunately, after researching the book, it seems that I am not the only songwriter who has been inspired by Suskind's 'Perfume': apparently Kurt Cobain was inspired to write the song 'Scentless Apprentice' (from the album 'In Utero') after reading 'Perfume', and Marilyn Manson's EP 'Smells Like Children' was similarly inspired.

Not bad company though.... !

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Olfaction:

'The action or capacity of smelling; the sense of smell.'

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Tick:

'A parasitic arachnid that attaches itself to the skin of a terrestrial vertebrate from which it sucks blood...'