Haven't read this book for ages, but remembered enjoying reading it.
Will re-read and review. In the meantime it's being borrowed by my mate Karen for her bookclub.

I've just re-read this book and had forgotten how 'chilling' and disturbing the story was. Well written, and an ingenious murderous plot. You'll never smell perfume in the same way again! The tale combines the themes of smell, memories, sex, lust, desire, murder in to a gruesome journey.

p.134
"He pressed his back against the soft cushions of his sofa, opened a book, and began to read from his memoirs. He read about the odours of his childhood, of his schooldays, about the odours of the broad streets and hidden nooks of the city, about human odours."