[Comprehensive film and television] The formula of perfume

【Jean Grenouille】

"Why did you kill my daughter?"

"Why did you kill my daughter?"

Hanging upside down, I was immersed in cold water over and over again. The water poured into my nasal cavity and couldn't get out. The cerebral congestion became more serious, and I felt dizzy and very uncomfortable.

And the man in front of me is still questioning me over and over again why he killed his daughter.

"I just……"

"Need her."

I replied that I don't know how to explain to him everything I have conceived and successfully accomplished, and this explanation is the best I think.

I just need her.

"Why are you still standing there, follow me, Adele." While my mind was in a daze, I heard this person call out a name I was extremely familiar with.

This name is so familiar that it lingers on the tip of my tongue. It seems that I can say it in the next second, and it seems that I will never be able to say it.

"No, father, I want to see him. This is the devil who killed Laura, isn't it?"

"... half a minute."

"Thank you, Father."

The time of hanging upside down became longer and longer, and the dirty water was poured into the trachea and esophagus along with the nasal cavity. My dizziness became more and more uncomfortable, and my nose was also affected to a certain extent.At this time, I had to look with my eyes. I saw a girl in a white lace dress walking towards me. Her slender and clean appearance was incompatible with the dark and dark prison cell. Then I smelled it, and I smelled a familiar fragrance.

One hand pinched my nose lightly, as she was used to doing to me, but the upside-down position made her movements uncomfortable for me.But I didn't dare to move. I hoped that by doing this, she could stay in front of me a little longer, a little longer.

"I thought I could do something, and it turned out I was just the saddest bystander."

She seemed to sigh, and her fingers quickly left me, drifting farther and farther away together with the fragrance that fascinated me.Riches was waiting for her at the door, and he put his arm on her shoulder, speaking to her so intimately and kindly: "Adele, she... left me, now I only have you, you are me now My daughter, not my niece, don't be willful in the future, and you can't have the action of touching the prisoner like that just now, understand?"

"Yes, Father." Her expression was paler and more indifferent than her skirt, and after she answered meekly, she left with Richis, not even giving me a single look.

I panicked.

"Adele!" I called out her name so loudly that I was startled, as if I had never spoken so loudly in front of people.

She did stop, but did not look back.

"On the day of the execution, will you go?" I looked at her eagerly, hoping that she would look back at me, eager to confirm something to her.I wish so much that she would be there that day to watch me perform miracles to the world.

"Oh? It depends on the situation." She said lightly, and then left.

【Adele】

When I hurried back to Grasse from Grenoble, the public evidence of the crime was hung in the church square in front of the government hall—thirteen sets of clothes, together with thirteen locks of hair, were hung on a row of wooden poles.

I recognized the hair in the middle at a glance, the most beautiful soft and smooth red, which belongs to Laura's color.

They really caught the murderer this time.

Thousands of people marched past the eerie exhibition grounds.Relatives of the victims let out earth-shattering cries as they recognized their loved ones' clothes.

The rest of the spectators, some who wanted to watch the show, others who had to see it to believe it, all demanded that the murderer be brought on display.

But when the murderer stood at the second-floor window of the judge's chamber, there was a sudden silence in the square, as if it were noon on a hot summer's day, and everything outside was in the field, or in the shadow of the house.No more footsteps, coughing or breathing.

That was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.

But the others were silent because they couldn't believe that that frivolous, little, curled-up man standing at the upstairs window, that insignificant man, that wretch, that scumbag, could commit thirteen murders .

He didn't look like a murderer at all.

Standing in the dark crowd, looking up at the man at the window on the second floor, I suddenly felt that the distance between me and him was very far away.And when Grenouille moved his nose and precisely met my gaze in a large crowd, I didn't dare to see the smile that suddenly appeared on his face, but ran away instead.

I used to think that I was the one who understood him best, but now, I actually started to feel afraid of him.

His eyes were as pure and clear as ever.I understand that he kills people just to get the fragrance, and it is because this motive is too pure that it is more frightening.

He is like a child, the most innocent and cruel child, without any constraints of the world, only pursuing what he wants.

Maybe I shouldn't have left him in the first place. The most important thing I should offer him is not food, but basic moral concepts.

And, to my disgrace, even though he had killed Lola and the other women, it still hurt my heart to see him hang upside down and be submerged in buckets and undergo all kinds of torture.

Irrational, the Holy Mother has reached this level, you are also a pervert, Adele.

At this moment I feel loathed and contemptuous of myself.

Because Grenouille's crime was unknown and heinous, the sentence was passed very quickly, and the day of execution was quickly fixed.That day in the cell, Grenouille asked me if I would go to the execution. At that time, I immediately realized what he was going to do that day, and I said "depending on the situation", and I didn't mean to be perfunctory to him. I might really not be able to go.

I decided to run away on this day.

After Riches lost Laura, he quickly adopted me as his daughter. Although I am not mature yet, in a few years, I will not be worse than Laura, and even because of my mixed blood, I will be even worse. Pretty but maybe.

If he still loves Lola, then he only has the concept of "a tool for marriage" to me.

Today everyone will go to watch Grenouille's execution, the crowds are empty, it is definitely the best escape day.I prepared the carriage, food, water and clothes a few days ago, and a small bag of gold coins I earned in Mulan. I will not move the property of the Riches family, and only take a few commonly used small jewelry. It was sent to me by Richis.In my opinion, he is a father with no sense of responsibility, so I feel at ease to accept this little thing.

I dressed up as a young man and went out from the back door of the manor. There was no one in the place where the carriage passed. When I arrived at the gate of the city, even the sentry sentry went to watch the execution absent-mindedly, without even looking at me.

As my carriage drove out of the rose-fields outside the town, I heard a loud cheer that seemed to come from tens of thousands of people.

Is it time for execution?

Will he...will die?

I really can't let go.

I glanced at the sun, not knowing which tendon was wrong, tied the carriage to the tree trunk on the side of the road, and ran madly towards the city of Grasse, the sentry on the city tower looked at me and laughed: "Hey, I know I regret it Well, today is the big day for the murderer to bow his head. Everyone is dressed up like a festival, ha! I just wondered why you chose this time to leave the city! Hurry up to the square, he just went to the execution ground at this moment, tsk tsk, To come in in the police chief’s double carriage, wearing velvet clothes, this treatment! But I like this way, first dress him up, and then torture him a little bit, it’s more exciting, haha!”

Come on, shut up!You have no idea how powerful he is!

As I was running, I remembered that when we were in Paris a few years ago, on that rainy night, Grenoye told me about the perfume in the tomb of the pharaoh in ancient Egypt, the magical perfume that can make you fall into heaven as soon as you open it , the No. 13 mysterious spices that have not been separated by people are probably the girl's deodorant!

And Grenouille, using the deodorants of thirteen girls, made a kind of perfume, what would that be like...

I imagined it to the limit, but when I arrived at the square, I was still stunned by everything in front of me.

The plan to execute criminals turned into a grand Dionysian festival, and the scene of thousands of people enjoying themselves/desire was actually staged before their eyes.

Grenouille stood alone on the execution platform in the middle of the square, waving a handkerchief and smiling.Rather, it seemed to anyone who saw him that he was smiling with the most innocent, lovable, charming, and at the same time most seductive smile in the world.

Like Satan who came to the world, but still wearing the angel skin of Lucifer.

I smelled another kind of fragrance in the air besides cumin.I immediately understood that this is probably why people are crazy about it, that is, the perfume made by Grenouille, the ultimate mystery and weapon.

As long as he wants, he can do anything, he holds the bottle of perfume, and he also holds supreme power.This power is stronger than the power of money, the power of terror, or the power of death. It is an invincible force that can make people love.

I stood frozen at the entrance of the square, never so grateful for my extremely dull sense of smell.

"Adele!" Grenouille's genius nose made him quickly discover me, and he almost jumped off the stage in great surprise, stepping on the crowd towards me: "Look, look, I did it !"

Yes you did.

I actually forgot what kind of genius you are, how insignificant my concern is to you.The ridiculous thing is that when I turned around and rushed back, I was so ambitious that I wanted to rob you, and secretly vowed to spend my whole life with you, and to teach you to be a normal person with three views.

But now, looking at the "grand occasion" in the square, I just felt a nausea and nausea, and acid water rushed up my throat. I barely suppressed the nausea of ​​this scene, and ran out of Grasse without looking back.I'm going to find a carriage, I'm leaving here, and never coming back for the rest of my life!

"Don't follow me!" Grenouille!

【Jean Grenouille】

I stood on the high platform, looking down at everything that happened in front of me, my heart was unexpectedly calm, and I didn't feel very satisfied.

It's not me they love, it's just the perfume.They were indeed looking at me with admiration and admiration, which I thought was what I wanted, but they had no idea that it was a perfume that was working on them and bewitching them.

The only person who recognizes its true beauty at any given time is me, because I made it myself—and, at the same time, the only person it cannot confuse.I'm the only one whose fragrance doesn't work.

This kind of thinking made me feel tired and confused, and I suddenly didn't know what to do next.I have accomplished a feat, and it seems that I have not accomplished it. I seem to have achieved my goal, but I don't feel very happy and satisfied.

Thankfully, just at this time, I smelled another fragrance besides perfume, a lively and growing fragrance.

"Adele!" Sure enough, she still came!

I jumped off the high platform excitedly, I know her sense of smell is bad, she will not be confused by my perfume, she also knows everything about me, and will not be seduced by a mask!Look, I caught her eyes, sober!

At this moment, Adele seems to be my only salvation, I can't wait to run towards her, I don't care how dangerous her smell is to my fatal attraction, now I only long to see her approving smile.

At the moment of running, I even remembered the ancient Egyptian perfume legend I told her on that rainy night. I held up the precious bottle of perfume in front of her like a treasure, hoping to get even a short compliment from her: "Adele , look, look, I did it! It is a more magical perfume than the legends of ancient Egypt!"

"Don't follow me!"

The picture I imagined did not appear. Adele turned around indifferently and started running. After dropping this sentence, she ran out of my sight without looking back.

Adele!

Adele?

why?