Perfume: Pictures

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is a person who has a gift for smelling things. He can identify things around him through his nose. With his fascination with smells, he wanted to capture everything that has smell. Later, he discovered that the scent of flowers can be kept inside a small bottle called perfumes. With the guidance of Giuseppe Baldini, a perfumer, he was able to learn the art of creating scents. He believed that he can really capture the smell of all things. He tried to experiment. But the experiment failed him because he can't even keep the scent of a copper or a cat. He then learned that an ultimate perfume is made up of twelve basic scents. He was told that there had been a legend sometime ago that the ultimate perfume, which sent the people to experience paradise, was made from 13 different scents in which the last scent remains a mystery. One day while in his sanctuary, he discovered that he can't smell himself yet he can smell everything around him. He became frustrated and came to realize that he will pass this world without people knowing that he once existed. He wanted to teach the world that he could be felt. Then, his journey to create the ultimate perfume began. He set out to kill twelve beautiful women and extracted their scents through distillation. He was able to finish the perfume that let the people experience love and beauty. There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn Jean-Baptiste into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else.

As for me, it's my frustration to capture the beauty of the things that fascinate me. I tried it with a camera, but still I can't do it. First of all, I don't have the talent. Yet even if I could, I can't instruct a camera to capture the way I see things. The only way to preserve them is through my memory. Let's hope that I won't have that "eraser" in my head someday.

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