Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself! - Patrick Süskind

He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.

If this one, most essential freedom was taken from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead.

He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but superhuman, an angel's scent.