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Getreidefelder sorgten für Grütze und Brot, und aus den fruchtbaren Maulbeer- und Walnussgärten kamen Obst und Nussöl.
Patches of corn yielded porridge and bread; fruit and nut oil came from the prolific mulberry and walnut orchards.
Ihr Schweiß duftete so frisch wie Meerwind, der Talg ihrer Haare so süß wie Nussöl, ihr Geschlecht wie ein Bouquet von Wasserlilien, die Haut wie Aprikosenblüte…, und die Verbindung all dieser Komponenten ergab ein Parfum so reich, so balanciert, so zauberhaft, dass alles, was Grenouille bisher an Parfums gerochen, alles, was er selbst in seinem Innern an Geruchsgebäuden spielerisch erschaffen hatte, mit einem Mal zu schierer Sinnlosigkeit verkam.
Her sweat smelled as fresh as the sea breeze, the tallow of her hair as sweet as nut oil, her genitals were as fragrant as the bouquet of water lilies, her skin as apricot blossoms … and the harmony of all these components yielded a perfume so rich, so balanced, so magical, that every perfume that Grenouille had smelled until now, every edifice of odours that he had so playfully created within himself, seemed at once to be utterly meaningless.
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