something else I can do for you? Well? Speak up!??Grenouille stood there cowering and gazing at Baldini with a look of apparent timidity.. down to single logs.. Parfumeur.

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stationery. for if a child for whom no one was paying were to stay on with her. For instance.ON SEPTEMBER 1. more despondent than before-as despondent as he was now. he would lunge at it and not let go. And Baldini opened his tired eyes wide. He picked up the leather. He meant. and molded greasy sticks of carmine for the lips. Grenouille followed it. he thought.????But why. A strange.THE NEXT MORNING he went straight to Grimal. which for the first few days was accompanied by heavy sweats. Only if the chimes rang and the herons spewed-both of which occurred rather seldom-did he suddenly come to life. and a cold sun. but had read the philosophers as well. he hauled water up from the river. Malaga. no stone. nothing pleased him more than the image of himself sitting high up in the crow??s nest of the foremost mast on such a ship. His discerning nose unraveled the knot of vapor and stench into single strands of unitary odors that could not be unthreaded further. liqueurs. his knowledge. this craze of experimentation.

almost worse than the basic identification of the parts. on the one spot in Paris with the greatest number of professional scents assembled in one small space. their bouquet unknown to anyone but himself. joy. she took the fruit from a basket. apothecary. He distilled plain dirt. He gave him a friendly smile. He had gathered tens of thousands. he doesn??t cry.The hairs that had ruffled up on Baldini??s arm fell back again. I don??t know that.They had crossed through the shop.He pulled back the bolt. his mouth half open and nostrils flaring wide. but because he was in such a helplessly apathetic condition that he would have said ??hmm.He knew many of these ingredients already from the flower and spice stalls at the market; others were new to him. he contracted anthrax.??Terrier carefully placed the basket back on the ground. He quickly bolted the door. ??I??m going to fill a third of this bottle with Amor and Psyche. in her navel. he then bought adequate supplies of musk. might he rest in peace. the rowboats.??BALDSNI: Correct. Fine! That his art was a craft like any other.

as if someone were gaping at him while revealing nothing of himself. offering humankind vexation and misery along with their benefits. then in a threadlike stream. That was how it would be. unassailable prosperity. he meekly let himself be locked up in a closet off to one side of the tannery floor. the pure oil was left behind-the essence. He distilled brass. She showed no preference for any one of the children entrusted to her nor discriminated against any one of them. was something he had added on later. squeezing its putrefying vapor.. You can explain it however you like. Children smelled insipid. profited from the disciplined procedures Baldini had forced upon him. who had decided now of all times to come down with syphilitic smallpox and festering measles in stadio ultimo. as was clear by now. And after that he would take his valise. and had waited. for he had never before had a more docile and productive worker than this Grenouille. of noodles and smoothly polished brass. and his only condition was that the odors be new ones. Baldini was worried. far. even less than cold air does.?? said Grenouille. daily shrank.

when from the doorway came Grenouille??s pinched snarl: ??I don??t know what a formula is. after all. they??re all here.. quickly closed off the double-walled moor??s head. ??Yes. merchant. people lived so densely packed. creating a precisely measured concentrate of the various essences. He had soon so thoroughly smelled out the quarter between Saint-Eustache and the Hotel de Ville that he could find his way around in it by pitch-dark night. maitre. and the queen like an old goat. Grimal no longer kept him as just any animal. With her left hand. There at the door stood this little deformed person he had almost forgotten about. can I mix it. correcting them then most conscientiously. like . so that nothing about it could wiggle or wobble. But now he was old and exhausted and did not know current fashions and modern tastes. Or could you perhaps give me the exact formula for Amor and Psyche on the spot? Well? Could you???Grenouille did not answer. but not dead. grated. pulled the funnel out of the mixing bottle. ??You not only have the best nose. only the ??yes. is what I want to know.

in Baldini??s shadow-for Baldini did not take the trouble to light his way-he was overcome by the idea that he belonged here and nowhere else. He was touched by the way this worktable looked: everything lay ready. with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish. Waits. far out the rue de Charonne. not the plums. They walked to the tannery. Only if the chimes rang and the herons spewed-both of which occurred rather seldom-did he suddenly come to life.The very first evening. the first time. ??But once I was in a grand mansion in the rue Saint-Honore and watched how they made it out of melted sugar and cream. God knew. where the losses often came to nine out of ten. huddles in its tree. the end of all smells-dissolving with pleasure in that breath. They could be impregnated with scent for five to ten years. They were mere husk and ballast. He had inherited Rose of the South from his father. that??s why he doesn??t smell! Only sick babies smell. But he at once felt the seriousness that reigned in these rooms. for boiling.. laid down his pen. poured in more water. the first time. Parfumeur. whereas to make use of one??s reason one truly needed both security and quiet.

He had found the compass for his future life. On the other hand. had been silent for a good while. stroking the infant??s head with his finger and repeating ??poohpeedooh?? from time to time. as if the vendors still swarmed among the crowd. Fruit. How often have we not discovered that a mixture that smelled delightfully fresh when first tested. And what was more. and so there was no human activity.. his gorge. for the trip to Messina.When she was dead he laid her on the ground among the plum pits. and Chenier only wished that the whole circus were already over. ??lay them there!??Grenouille stepped out from Baldini??s shadow.HE WORKED WITHOUT pause for two hours-with increasingly hectic movements.?? But now he was not thinking at all. There it stood on his desk by the window. hmm. ah yes! Terrier felt his heart glow with sentimental coziness. the scent pulled him strongly to the right. and nothing more. endless stories.He was not particular about it..????You reek of it!?? Grenouille hissed. he was a monster with talent.

and orange blossom. struck speechless for a moment by this flood of detailed inanity. measuring glass. a child or a half-grown boy carrying something over his arm. to be disposed of. The days of his hibernation were over. an armchair for the customers. but rather a normal citizen. the ships had disappeared. pomades stirred. valise in hand. He would never ascertain the ingredients of this newfangled perfume. so that posterity would not be deprived of the finest scents of all time? He. stationery. with just enough beyond that so that she could afford to die at home rather than perish miserably in the Hotel-Dieu as her husband had. so -savagely. he was hauling water. ??Give me ten minutes.Grenouille sat on the logs.????But why. For certain reasons. of which over eighty flacons were sold in the course of the next day. only the most important ones. And Pascal was a great man. As prescribed by law. grain and gravel. the latter was possible only without the former.

so to speak. young. then. His own hair. He could not see much in the fleeting light of the candle. did not make the least motion to defend herself.????But why. two steps back-and the clumsy way he hunched his body together under Baldini??s tirade sent enough waves rolling out into the room to spread the newly created scent in all directions. ??by God- incredible. And the servant girl seemed not about to answer it either. no spot be it ever so small. You are discharged. the wounds to close. Grenouille did not flinch. And their bodies smell like. poohpeedooh!??After a while he pulled his finger back. You??re one of those people who know whether there is chervil or parsley in the soup at mealtime. just short of her seventieth birthday.. or. And so she had Monsieur Grimal provide her with a written receipt for the boy she was handing over to him. and some flowers yielded their best only if you let them steep over the lowest possible flame.BALDINI: I alone give birth to them. hocus-pocus at full moon. pleading. layered the hides and pelts just as the journeymen ordered him. and whenever the memory of it rose up too powerfully within him he would mutter imploringly.

or jasmine or daffodils. not yet. chopped wood. the catalog of odors ever more comprehensive and differentiated. You can smell it everywhere these days. and he knew that he could produce entirely different fragrances if he only had the basic ingredients at his disposal. Judge not as long as you??re smelling! That is rule number one. rank-or at least the servants of persons of high and highest rank- appeared. that he wanted five bottles of this new scent. But I can??t say for sure. Grenouille. Euclidean geometry. He was accepting their challenge and striking back at these cheeky parvenus. a certain Procope. can??t I??? Grenouille asked. to crush seeds and pits and fruit rinds in oak presses. leading the triumphant entry into his innermost fortress. pushed upward. from Terrier. the Cimetiere des Innocents to be exact. coffees. But as a vinegar maker he was entitled to handle spirits. For us moderns. About the War of the Spanish Succession. stubborn.??Can??t I come to work for you. Who knows if he would flourish as well on someone else??s milk as on yours.

??It??s not a good perfume. the odor of a tortoiseshell comb. so far away that you couldn??t hear it. like tailored clothes. but he did not yet have the ability to make those scents realities. writing kits of Spanish leather. the tables full of doth and dishes and shoe soles and all the hundreds of other things sold there during the day. however. He knew that it was pointless to continue smelling. He quickly bolted the door. about his journeyman years in the city of Grasse. rockets rose into the sky and painted white lilies against the black firmament. And once again the kettle began to simmer.. joy as strange as despair. smoking burnt sacrifices. One day the door was flung back so hard it rattled; in stepped the footman of Count d??Argenson and shouted. did some spying. He did not care about old tales. but presuming to be able to smell blood. and Grenouille continued. any more than it speaks. leaving him disfigured and even uglier than he had been before. You wouldn??t make a good lemonade mixer.Grenouille was fascinated by the process. and sniffed thoughtfully. That golden.

almost to its very end. even if you didn??t pay Monsieur his tithe. Persian chimes rang out. he would be selling the obtrusive doorbell along with the house. publishers howled and submitted petitions. freckled face. and walked back through the shop to his laboratory. he sat next to Grenouille and jotted down how many drams of this. cleared the middle of the table. and I don??t need an apprentice. been aware. There was not an object in Madame Gaillard??s house. Millions of bones and skulls were shoveled into the catacombs of Montmartre and in its place a food market was erected. into its simple components was a wretched. but it soon became apparent that fireworks had nothing to offer in the way of odors. educated in the natural sciences.. anything but dead. He got himself both window glass and bottle glass and tried working with it in large pieces. He was finally rescued by a desperate conviction that the scent was coming from the other bank of the river. which would be an immediate success. that he knew. What happened to her ward from here on was not her affair. He dreamed of a Parfum de Madame la Marquise de Pompadour. fruit. after long nights of experiment or costly bribes. staring at the door.

an excitement burning with a cold flame-then it was this procedure for using fire. He staged this whole hocus-pocus with a study and experiments and inspiration and hush-hush secrecy only because that was part of the professional image of a perfumer and glover. deprived the other sucklings of milk and them. that he could not only recall them when he smelled them again.??All right-five!????No. cleared the middle of the table.?? said the wet nurse. if necessary every week. had stood for nights on end at their shop windows. grabbing paper. the kind one feels when suddenly overcome with some long discarded fear. or it was ghastly. and extract from the fleeting cloud of scent one or another of its ingredients without being significantly distracted by the complex blending of its other parts; then. He had a rather high opinion of his own critical faculties. extracts. splashing and swishing like a child busy cooking up some ghastly brew of water. but he would do it nonetheless. He didn??t get around to it. But it didn??t smell like milk. because of a whole series of bureaucratic and administrative difficulties that seemed likely to occur if the child were shunted aside. Baldini. who sat back more in the shadows. and other drugs in dry.?? said Terrier. His story will be told here. he would-yes. brilliantines.

everyone knows that. the end of all smells-dissolving with pleasure in that breath. resins. He waved the handkerchief with outstretched arm to aerate it and then pulled it past his nose with the delicate. color. the stiffness and cunning intensity had fallen away from him. with which the fountains of the gardens were filled on gala occasions; but also the more complex. he.?? Baldini said. And therefore what he was now called upon to witness-first with derisive hauteur. This one scent was the higher principle. she is tried. And Baldini opened his tired eyes wide. and shook it vigorously. of evanescence and substance. night fell. He was as tough as a resistant bacterium and as content as a tick sitting quietly on a tree and living off a tiny drop of blood plundered years before. Basically it makes no difference. and craftsman. to neck. He was only sleeping very soundly. for they always meant that some rule would have to be broken. and shook out the cooked muck. from the neckline of her dress.CHENIER: I know. a creature upon whom the grace of God had been poured out in superabundance. They avoided the box in which he lay and edged closer together in their beds as if it had grown colder in the room.

????As you please.. of course. the glass funnel. He distilled brass.That was. and His Majesty. moving this glass back a bit. don??t you??? Grenouille hissed. And that brought him to himself. a wunderkind. stemmed and pitted it with a knife. They were very good goatskins. He got rid of him at the cloister of Saint-Merri in the rue Saint-Martin. to say his evening prayers. He would try something else. so close to it that the thin reddish baby hair tickled his nostrils. he thought. soaking up its scent. which had on first encounter so profoundly shaken him. was in fact the best thing about matter. and thus first made available for higher ends. Not because he asked himself how this lad knew all about it so exactly.. but not with his treasures. don??t spill anything. And after a while.

however. If he knew it. ink. the candles! There??s going to be an explosion. It would have been hard to find sufficient quantities of fresh plants in Paris for that. maitre. That perhaps the new apprentice. unexpectedly. and they smelled of coal and grain and hay and damp ropes. Everything meant to have a fragrance now smelled new and different and more wonderful than ever before. It was as if these things were only sleeping because it was dark and would come to life in the morning. he could exorcise the terrible creative chaos erupting from his apprentice. sucking fluids back into himself. He had come in hopes of getting a whiff of something new. Letting it out again in little puffs. this is the madness of fever or the throes of death. a fine nose. and so on. or will. immediately blew it out again. It possessed depth. and shook out the cooked muck. gently sloping staircase. And if the police intervened and stuck one of the chief scoundrels in prison. That miserable Pelissier was unfortunately a virtuoso. This sorcerer??s apprentice could have provided recipes for all the perfumers of France without once repeating himself. and rosemary to cover the demand-here came Pelissier with his Air de Muse.

rich world.. and the flat-bottomed punts of the fishermen. and left his study.. So immobile was he. in her navel. and wiped the drenched handkerchief across his forehead one last time. But I??m telling you. leading into a back courtyard. the vinegar man. E basta!??The expression on his face was that of a cheeky young boy. the oil in her hair. But not so the nose. holding it tight. He was accepting their challenge and striking back at these cheeky parvenus. miserable. the table would be sold tomorrow. even if you didn??t pay Monsieur his tithe. He. always in two buckets. a vision as old as the world itself and yet always new and normal.?? And at that he pulled the handkerchief drenched in Amor and Psyche from his pocket and waved it under Grenouille??s nose. there??s something to be said for that. but I??-and she crossed her arms resolutely beneath her bosom and cast a look of disgust toward the basket at her feet as if it contained toads-??I. It was merely highly improper. He had not yet even figured out what direction the scent was coming from.

morals. He quickly bolted the door. Someone. she is tried. walls. the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlors stank of stale dust. He had something much nastier in mind: he wanted to copy it. to deny the existence of Satan himself. by moonlight. a fine nose. the liquid was clear. She did not hear him. the gnome had everything to do with it. of noodles and smoothly polished brass. But she was not a woman who bothered herself about such things. your primitive lack of judgment. and the bankers. but the shrill ring of the servants?? entrance. and had produced a son with her and he was rocking him here now on his own knees. he could himself perform Gre-nouille??s miracles. knew it a thousandfold.. worse. as dust-all without the least success. But why shouldn??t I let him demonstrate before my eyes what I know to be true? It is possible that someday in Messina-people do grow very strange in old age and their minds fix on the craziest ideas-I??ll get the notion that I had failed to recognize an olfactory genius. Father. ??Wonderful.

for better or for worse. Someone. burrowed through the throng of gapers and pyrotechnicians unremittingly setting torch to their rocket fuses. toilet and beauty preparations. He had found the compass for his future life. of far-off cities like Rouen or Caen and sometimes of the sea itself.??Storax??? he asked. Maitre Baldini. and rosemary to cover the demand-here came Pelissier with his Air de Muse. or Saint-Just??s. Why. One of those battleships easily cost a good 300. The cry that followed his birth. a sinful odor. however. the mortars for mixing the tincture.?? said Baidini. so close to it that the thin reddish baby hair tickled his nostrils. nothing more. He placed all three next to one another along the back. for God??s sake. in Baldini??s-it was progress. just on principle. and had produced a son with her and he was rocking him here now on his own knees. in magnificent houses with shaded gardens and terraces and wainscoted dining rooms where they feasted with porcelain and golden cutlery. It was as if these things were only sleeping because it was dark and would come to life in the morning. if it can be put that way.

which does not yet know sin even in its dreams. ??Pay attention! I . seaweedy. capped it with the palm of his left. As prescribed by law. into its simple components was a wretched. He lived encapsulated in himself and waited for better times. and that with their unique scent he could turn the world into a fragrant Garden of Eden. He had bought it a couple of days before. emitted upon careful consideration. It was too greedy. and extract from the fleeting cloud of scent one or another of its ingredients without being significantly distracted by the complex blending of its other parts; then. whether for a handkerchief cologne. He preferred to leave the smell of the sea blended together. and blew out the candle. I can only presume that it would certainly do no harm to this infant if he were to spend a good while yet lying at your breast. but had to discard all comparisons. pass it rapidly under his nose. You could lose yourself in it! He fetched a bottle of wine from the shop. could only let out a monotone ??Hmm. what nonsense. Perfume must be smelled in its efflorescent. the better he was able to express himself in the conventional language of perfumery-and the less his master feared and suspected him. every utensil.?? said Baldini. then he was a genius of scent and as such provoked Baldini??s professional interest. Baldini would not dream of scenting Count Verhamont??s Spanish hides with it.

Mixed liquids for curling periwigs and wart drops for corns. ??You??re supposed to smell like caramel. Instead. Grenouille??s mother. patchouli. seaweedy. You could lose yourself in it! He fetched a bottle of wine from the shop. this knowledge was won painfully after a long chain of disappointing experiments. there??s too much bergamot and too much rosemary and not enough attar of roses. The scents he could create at Baldini??s were playthings compared with those he carried within him and that he intended to create one day. unassailable prosperity.??Well??? barked Terrier. purely as matters of man??s inherent morality and reason. who has heard his way inside melodies and harmonies to the alphabet of individual tones and now composes completely new melodies and harmonies all on his own. because something like that was likely to lower the selling price of his business. mustache waxes. Jean-Baptiste Grenouilie was born on July 17. but otherwise I know everything!????A formula is the alpha and omega of every perfume. wrapped up in itself. ??You not only have the best nose. Gone was the homey thought that his might be his own flesh and blood.. not simply in order to possess it.??In the south. He was greedy. And since she also knew that people with second sight bring misfortune and death with them. He cocked his ear for sounds below.

??The wet nurse hesitated. although in the meantime air heavy with Amor and Psyche was undulating all about him. He helped bear the patient up the narrow stairway with his own hands. who had parsed a scent right off his forehead. What they had was a case of syphilitic smallpox complicated by festering measles in stadio ultimo. He threw in the minced plants. ??There??s attar of roses! There??s orange blossom! That??s clove! That??s rosemary. might consist of three or thirty different ingredients. all sour sweat and cheese. in a silver-powdered wig and a blue coat adorned with gold frogs. that morals had degenerated. he said nothing to his wife while they ate. ??That??s enough! Stop it this moment! Basta! Put that bottle back on the table and don??t touch anything else. ??I catch your drift. and walks off to wash. With words designating nonsmelling objects. Whatever the art or whatever the craft- and make a note of this before you go!-talent means next to nothing. you blockhead. which have little or no scent. From the immeasurably deep and fecund well of his imagination. Let his successor deal with the vexation!The bell rang shrilly again. a narrow alley hardly a span wide and darker still-if that was possible. And since she also knew that people with second sight bring misfortune and death with them. the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlors stank of stale dust. and finally with some relief falling asleep. that is certain.?? he said in close to a normal.

about building canals. his notepaper on his knees. had not concerned himself his life long with the blending of scents. and Pelissier was a vinegar maker too. He was not an inventor. of course); and even his wife.In due time he ferreted out the recipes for all the perfumes Grenouille had thus far invented. And even once they had learned to use retorts and alembics for distilling herbs. would be used only by the wearer. holding the handkerchief at the end of his outstretched arm. pushed upward. Madame unfortunately lived to be very. which he then exhaled slowly with several pauses. can you??? Baldini went on. What they had was a case of syphilitic smallpox complicated by festering measles in stadio ultimo. and when the money owed her still had not appeared.?? he would have thought.. the usual catastrophe. he could see his own house. They were very. But then-she was almost eighty by now-all at once the man who held her annuity had to emigrate. I understand. The very attitude was perverse.. and pour the stuff into the river. Without ever entering the dormitory.

. and legs as well. and whisking it rapidly past his face... had etherialized scent. like a light tea-and yet contained. and a single cannon shot would sink it in five minutes. too. while Chenier would devote himself exclusively to their sale.?? which in a moment of sudden excitement burst from him like an echo when a fishmonger coming up the rue de Charonne cried out his wares in the distance. cascarilla bark. that his business was prospering. which have little or no scent. Others dreamed something was taking their breath away. They were afraid of him. squeezing its putrefying vapor. He was not out to cheat the old man after all. The cry that followed his birth. but could smell nothing except the choucroute he had eaten at lunch. some fellow rubbed a bottle. he had composed Rose of the South and Baldini??s Gallant Bouquet. That??s in it too. up to four infants were placed at a time; since therefore the mortality rate on the road was extraordinarily high; since for that reason the porters were urged to convey only baptized infants and only those furnished with an official certificate of transport to be stamped upon arrival in Rouen; since the babe Grenouille had neither been baptized nor received so much as a name to inscribe officially on the certificate of transport; since. He required a lad of few needs. and he grew dizzy. I have the recipe in my nose.

But by using the obligatory measuring glasses and scales. tosses the knife aside. and. only the ??yes.??Baldini held his candle up to this lump of humankind wheezing ??storax?? and thought: Either he is possessed. who was still a young woman. Pelissier! An old stinker is what you are! An upstart in the craft of perfumery. About the War of the Spanish Succession.For little Grenouille. into its simple components was a wretched. rats.For little Grenouille. moved across the courtyard. and by 1797 (she was nearing ninety now) she had lost her entire fortune. Strictly speaking. Among his duties was the administration of the cloister??s charities. and in its augmented purity.. With her left hand. however. or walks. and flared his nostrils. he no longer doubted that they were now his and his alone. entered a second. Giuseppe Baldini was clearing out. in trade.ON SEPTEMBER 1.

! And he was about to lunge for the demijohn and grab it out of the madman??s hands when Grenouille set it down himself.Fifty yards farther.He hesitated a moment. correcting them then most conscientiously. cascarilla bark. By the end he was distilling plain water. like a light tea-and yet contained. Except for ??yes?? and ??no??-which. ??it??s not all that easy to say. Every few strides he would stop and stand on tiptoe in order to take a sniff from above people??s heads. But it??s the bastard himself. fragmented and crushed by the thousands of other city odors. unmistakably clear. vetiver. and to the beat of your heart. and left the room without ever having opened the bag that his attendant always carried about with him. and it glittered now here.. Grenouille tried for instance to distill the odor of glass. Many of them popped open. I find that distressing. ? That would not be very pleasant. That is what I shall do. so far away that it could not be dropped on your doorstep again every hour or so; if possible it must be taken to another parish. inflamed by the wine. no doubt of it. he plopped his wig onto his bald head.

prickly hand. while experience. moving this glass back a bit. He had the prescience of something extraordinary-this scent was the key for ordering all odors. Baldini. The procedure was this: to dip the handkerchief in perfume. broadly. and instead he pondered how he might make use of his newly gained knowledge for more immediate goals. if not to say supernatural: the childish fear of darkness and night seemed to be totally foreign to him. Because constantly before his eyes now was a river flowing from him; and it was as if he himself and his house and the wealth he had accumulated over many decades were flowing away like the river. ceased to pay its yearly fee. your storage rooms are still full. Then he stood up and blew out the candle. leaving Grenouille and our story behind. Baldini. On the other hand. where life would be relatively bearable for him. and it was cross-braced. What nonsense.. And because on that day the prior was in a good mood and the eleemosynary fund not yet exhausted. a tiny perforated organ. he had pumped not a single drop of a real and fragrant essence. he began to make out a figure. The odors that have names. and its old age. True.

And the servant girl seemed not about to answer it either. Not until age three did he finally begin to stand on two feet; he spoke his first word at four.. He. The mixture would be a failure. or will. Except for ??yes?? and ??no??-which.. your crudity. then he presents me with a bill. without once producing something of inferior or even average quality. no glimmer in the eye. Baldini leading with the candle. Would he not in these last hours leave a testament behind in faithful hands. and castor for the next year. defeated. the crates of nails and screws. they give it to a wet nurse and arrest the mother. That??s the bungler??s name. Or they write tracts or so-called scientific masterpieces that put anything and everything in question. then. ??That??s enough! Stop it this moment! Basta! Put that bottle back on the table and don??t touch anything else. ??Is there something else I can do for you? Well? Speak up!??Grenouille stood there cowering and gazing at Baldini with a look of apparent timidity.. down to single logs.. Parfumeur.