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Alysson 2022-01-25 08:05:49
[Film Review] Fragrance: A Murderer's Tale - Tom Tykwer's Smell Feast
It's an amazing movie. Juskind's (Xu Sijin, omg...) novel itself is amazing enough. I resisted reading the novel without watching the movie. At that time, I kept thinking how this novel with strong fantasy can be adapted. into a movie? How can so many smells be translated into audio-visual...
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Casey 2022-01-25 08:05:49
A Tale of Three Geniuses
The smell of perfume is divided into: first smell, middle smell and aftertaste. The
first smell is the first impression of the perfume, and it usually lasts for a few minutes; the
middle smell is the essence of the perfume. Stop releasing a peculiar smell that varies from person to person.
The...
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer quotes
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Giuseppe Baldini: Talent means next to nothing, while experience acquired in humility and hard work means everything.
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Giuseppe Baldini: Now pay attention to what I tell you. Just like a musical chord, a perfume chord contains four essences, or notes, carefully selected for their harmonic affinity. Each perfume contains three chords: the head, the heart and the base, necessitating 12 notes in all. The head chord contains the first impression, lasting a few minutes before giving way to the heart chord, the theme of the perfume, lasting several hours. Finally, the base chord, the trail of the perfume lasting several days.
Giuseppe Baldini: Mind you, the Egyptians believed that one can only create a truly original perfume by adding an extra note, one final essence that will ring out and dominate the others. Legend had it that an amphora was once found in a pharaoh's tomb, and when it was opened, a perfume was released, after all those thousands of years, a perfume of such subtle beauty, and yet such power, that for one single moment every person on earth believed they were in paradise. 12 essences could be identified, but the 13th, the vital one, could never be determined.
