This world has been exposed to the concepts of many monsters, such as mythical creatures and mythical humanoids. The goal of these monsters is to protect or kill with a purpose, and there is the concept of a monster killing innocents, for the purpose of creating odors. In the novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind, the author portrays this monster as Grenouille. Süskind has this character that intentionally kills many people for their scent, regardless of their age or maturity. Grenouille is a monster as he abuses the power of perfume to escape worldly problems and attract love. He holds a grudge against humanity that affects more than just the characters, from the girls to his mother. Grenouille is portrayed as a monster because he is the cause of the deaths of most of the characters in the novel, abuses the power of smell, and hates humanity. Grenouille was the main cause of death in the novel due to his upbringing at the hands of his caretakers. . He kills 24 women and uses them to create the perfect perfume. “She loved this waiting […] [and] she loved it with the other twenty-four girls” (218). Grenouille, while extracting the girl Laure's perfume, says he is used to the waiting time for the extraction. He states that killing these women was a pleasant experience and he feels no guilt. From the day he was born Grenouille killed people directly and indirectly, but Süskind adds a death at the beginning of the novel that foreshadows everything that followed. "Unexpectedly, the little girl under the disemboweling table begins to scream[...]as she openly confesses admitting that she would definitely let that thing die,[...]she would[...]later[be] beheaded" (1 ). Grenouille, born less than an hour ago, kills him... middle of paper......nouille gets the love he never had at the moment of death, but he couldn't experience it since everyone devoured him in a non-existence way. Grenouille proved himself to be a monster as he was in seven years of solitude, saw himself as God and killed himself, leaving his life in vain. In Süskind's novel, Perfume, Grenouille is seen as a monster. Grenouille was the agent of all the deaths, including the 24 women, his mother and all his guardians. He abused the power of scent and smell and detested all forms of life. He is a monster because of his actions, thoughts and behaviors. It was society that turned him into this beast because everyone saw him as something different and yet, all he had truly ever wanted was love, something he had been denied forever. Works Cited Süskind, Patrick. Perfume: The story of a murderer. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1986. Print.