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of the city , for the primary role it had in the perfume industry during the XVI century . “ That city was the Rome for perfumes , the promised land for perfumers , those who had not earned the gallons in Grasse did not rightly bear the name of perfumer ” explains Jean Baptiste Grenouille , the psychotic protagonist of Patrick Süskind ’ s Perfume . With its industries , laboratories and museums it ’ s the right last step of our journey through the Perfume land .
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