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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: I can make Amour and Psyche for you. Now.
Giuseppe Baldini: And you think I'd just let you sop around in my laboratory? With essential oils that are worth are fortune?
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Yes.
Giuseppe Baldini: Pay attention! What's your name, anyway?
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.
Giuseppe Baldini: Well, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, you will have the opportunity now to prove yourself. And your grandiose failure will also be a lesson in humility.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: How much do you want me to make?
Giuseppe Baldini: How much of what?
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: How much Amour and Psyche do you want me to make? Shall I fill this flask?
[He picks up a large jar]
Giuseppe Baldini: No, you shall not! You may fill this one.
[He hands Grenouille a small bottle]
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Yes, Master.
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: That's a really good perfume.
[he holds the bottle out to Baldini, who turns away]
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Don't you want to smell it, Master?
Giuseppe Baldini: I'm not in the mood to test it now. I have other things on my mind.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: But Master...
Giuseppe Baldini: Go! Now!
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Can I come to work for you, Master, can I?
Giuseppe Baldini: Let me think about it.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille: Master! I have to learn how to keep smell.
Ramon Pujol
Extended Reading
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer quotes