Perfume, shot by Frank Griebe, tells a the tale of an 18th-century prodigy who kills to concoct the ultimate aphrodisiac. gifted and abominable Ke was one ofthe most personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personĀ¬ ages," writes German novelist Patrick Siiskind of his main character, Jean- by Jay Holben Unit photography by Jurgen Olczyk Baptiste Grenouille, in the 1985 novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. In the 18th-century tale,