The Code of Patrick Süskind's Perfume: Truth and fiction in the text of the famous novel

This book provides you with answers to the questions coming up while reading the novel "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by a German writer Patrick Süskind.Did the Europeans really smell so bad?***Is it true that European cities were drowning in mud?***Did Grenoiulle have a prototype?***How did the city of Grasse become the capital of perfumery?***What did Baldini trade in?***Is it possible to create the flavour of love?***Patrick Süskind's "Perfume" is without a co-opinion, a literary sensation of the late 20th century. A copy of the novel can be found in the hands of a secretary in the door of the subway car and resting under the Spanish sun from the just and unjust deeds of the boss of hers, a business shark. You actually know that yourself. Much of the contents of the novel raises a number of an attentive reader's questions, in particular, about the mores and lives of the Europeans in that times, about perfumery and prototypes of the main character, about the possibility of creating a universal flavor of love, etc. Let us try to figure it out...