Fragrance
14.99 €
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Fragrance
14.99 €
When Elias Revol is asked where he works, he replies, "In an aromatherapy room." In reality, he's an assistant olfactory technician at a branch of Fragrance, a powerful corporation that sells clients the ability to travel back in time through scent. Elias has a natural talent for smell—he masterfully transforms fragments of memories into chemical formulas. Fragrance is a refuge for him: the scents save him from an overly bright, overly harsh world. But upon arriving for an internship at Fragrance's headquarters, the young man encounters the tough, unsentimental Nora Olsson, who is determined to keep her secrets—both corporate and personal—at all costs. And because of her, the hypersensitive Elias, who dreamed of bottling nostalgic joy, gets involved in a terrifying case and discovers that crimes, too, have a scent...
Paul Richardot knows what he's talking about—he's a perfumer himself. Richardo was raised on Süskind's "Perfume" and hard science fiction, and so in his sensory thriller "Aroma," perfumery is strictly scientific (except for one fantastical assumption), and the plot grips you by the throat. Even his fictional, sinister corporation was born from a real-life anecdote circulating in French professional circles about someone planning to clandestinely flavor alcohol and then smuggle it into the USSR.
"Aroma," Richardo's debut novel, has already been translated into a dozen languages. Richardo has a story to tell—and he does: about the complex and wondrous art of scent, about the finely tuned senses that few possess, about a tense investigation that is almost impossible to complete, and about how justice is sometimes more complex than we would like, but it does exist.
Paul Richardot knows what he's talking about—he's a perfumer himself. Richardo was raised on Süskind's "Perfume" and hard science fiction, and so in his sensory thriller "Aroma," perfumery is strictly scientific (except for one fantastical assumption), and the plot grips you by the throat. Even his fictional, sinister corporation was born from a real-life anecdote circulating in French professional circles about someone planning to clandestinely flavor alcohol and then smuggle it into the USSR.
"Aroma," Richardo's debut novel, has already been translated into a dozen languages. Richardo has a story to tell—and he does: about the complex and wondrous art of scent, about the finely tuned senses that few possess, about a tense investigation that is almost impossible to complete, and about how justice is sometimes more complex than we would like, but it does exist.
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