Rating: 4 out of 5

What an interesting story. Most unusual. Interesting. Odd.

Highlighted passages:

People reading books, even women.

perfume lives in time; it has its youth, its maturity and its old age.

Whatever the art or whatever the craft – and make a note of this before you go – talent means next to nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.’

Originally posted to my Goodreads account