Perfumer code Patrick Zyuskind. True and fiction in the text of the famous novel

In this small (pocket format) book you will find the answers that arise from the attentive reader of the famous novel Patrick Zyuskind "perfumer. The story of one killer. "
Did Jean-Batista Grenyu have a real prototype? Did the inhabitants of Europe really stink so terribly and did not wash for months? Is it true that the cities were buried in the mud? What did the hero of the novel perfumer Baldini sell in his shop? Is it possible to create a "aroma of love"?
The reader will not only figure out what is true in the novel, but what is artistic fiction, but will also be able to draw his own conclusions about traditions, morals, life, everyday life, medicine of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Enlightenment. For those who want to study this topic in more detail, the book contains a list of recommended literature