Then he hears the servant's bell ring, and when he answers the door, it's Grenouille delivering the skins from Grimal. After two hours of trying to ascertain the different ingredients, Baldini gives up and decides to sell his business and move to Messina. He's been tasked with impregnating skins for a count with the perfume Amor and Psyche by his rival, Pélissier, and rather than purchase the perfume, he wishes to copy it.
Giuseppe Baldini is an elderly perfumer whose business is going downhill. Later that night as he lies in bed, he begins to catalogue his scents into good and bad. He strangles her, rips her dress off, and lies with her until her scent is gone. He tracks it to a young teenage girl in the rue de Marais, sitting in a courtyard pitting plums. One night, while the city of Paris is setting off fireworks in honor of the king, Grenouille catches a whiff of scent that he finds intoxicating. Grenouille takes the opportunity to traverse Paris and track scents, and feels free for the first time. At 12, Grimal begins to let Grenouille have an evening per week to himself. Grenouille contracts anthrax and survives the ordeal, which turns him into a valuable worker as he cannot be reinfected, and he's given a bed and a blanket. Grimal treats Grenouille like an animal and locks him in a closet at night to sleep. At age eight, the cloister stops paying for Grenouille's keep, and Madame Gaillard sells him to a tanner named Grimal. He finds language inadequate to express his olfactory world, and never fully grasps concepts such as morality or goodness. As he grows, Grenouille catalogues every scent he comes across.
The other children attempt to murder him but eventually give up. She doesn't realize that Grenouille doesn't smell and doesn't expect him to express emotion, which suits Grenouille well. Madame Gaillard was hit across the face with a poker as a child and as such, has no sense of smell and doesn't experience emotions.
When the sleeping Grenouille wakes and sniffs the air in a menacing way, Father Terrier is terrified and takes Grenouille straight to Madame Gaillard, who runs a home for orphans. Father Terrier attempts to pay Jeanne Bussie more money to keep the baby but eventually gives in. Several weeks after she takes custody of him, she returns him to Father Terrier at the cloister of Saint Merri, stating that Grenouille is possessed by the devil because he doesn't have a smell. Grenouille goes through a series of wet nurses, all of whom accuse him of being especially greedy for milk. When she comes to she abandons her baby, but a crowd discovers the baby and his mother is arrested, tried, and beheaded. Due to the heat and the stench, Grenouille’s mother passes out immediately after his birth, drawing a crowd. Grenouille is born in a market in Paris in July of 1738 to a young fishmonger.
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