5/21/2023 0 Comments Patrick süskind's perfume![]() “I’ve always tried to stay away from that, but now that I’m running out of ideas more and more, I tend to do that.”Īlthough Cobain used the book as his muse for the song, that’s only because of how deeply he recognised himself within the book’s protagonist and the emotions that rippled through every page mirrored how he felt when the world was against him. “That’s really one of the first times that I’ve ever used an actual story as a book, as an example in a song,” he added in the interview. ![]() In the interview, Cobain then discusses how he copied the story from Perfume for ‘Scentless Apprentice’ from In Utero. He only travels by night, every time that he smells human, even like a fire from a far-off way, he’ll just get real disgusted and hide away from people. So he goes on this trek, this walk of death, he goes into these rule areas where there’s woods all over the place, and these small villages. “He’s just disgusted basically with all humans, but he can’t get away from humans. “It’s about this perfume apprentice in France at the turn of the century,” Cobain explained. ![]() Everytime I’m bored, if I’m on an aeroplane or something, I read it over and over again because I’m a hypochondriac, and it just affects me. “It’s like something that’s just stationary in my pocket all the time, it just doesn’t leave me. ![]() “I’ve read Perfume, by Patrick Süskind, about ten times in my life and I can’t stop reading it,” Cobain revealed. ![]()
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