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"Perfume" is one of my favorite novels of all time!

In fact, I had loaned my copy out and was wanting to read it again and could not find it in any of my usual used bookstore haunts. I did stumble across two other novels by Suskind and put them on the hold shelf at a used bookstore in Boston; when I went to buy them a couple days later an employee, who I had mentioned wanting a copy of "Perfume" to, had snagged one that came in. I devoured it immediately as soon as I got it home. Even better the second time around...

"Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins is also fantastic, and contains many perfumery-related descriptions like Suskind's novel...though it is comical where Suskind's is more of an erudite thriller...