His avoidance of death, and the fear of death as a concept, is the underlying concept of the inspirational debate and discussion that goes on underneath the plot. He found this secret and shared it with his wife, they enjoyed life as much as they could for hundreds, thousands of years. They each find a peace, but only after realising that what they were looking for was not what they needed, and after something of a speech from Alobar.Īlobar defied his death as a young man and searched during his life for the secret to holding on to it eternally. In each city our main characters have lives of their own but move slowly toward each other, meeting in New Orleans at the culmination of their journeys.
But this is something they all have in common, a link to, obsession or fascination with perfume.
A great amount of discussion is made about what makes the perfect perfume, what it will do to those who smell it or if it was achieved a long time ago and kept by the gods. The plot is a deliciously sexy movement through sophisticated society toward the perfect perfume. Alobar's character jumps in time each chapter until he meets up with the rest of the cast in the present day, as of the 1980s when it was written. First in New Orleans, then Paris and Seattle and then to Alobar, a king a thousand years ago in what will one day be Britain. Instead of going from one character to another, we go between four sets of characters, four unique stories.
Like 'About a Boy' the point of view changes with each chapter.
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