Perfume — Audiobook
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 7.8 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in—by —
What our data says
- At 7.8 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 76% of the fantasy audiobooks we measured.
- That's 37% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook (12.3 hrs across 761 titles in our dataset).
Computed from fantasy audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset; listening time estimated from page count.
Who is this for?
Best for fantasy listeners who want psychological twists and a murder to untangle — a weekend-size listen at 7.8 hours (estimated).
About the book
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.
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How long is the Perfume audiobook?
Perfume runs about 7.8 hours — our estimate from its 263 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.2 hours.
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When was Perfume first published?
Perfume by Patrick Süskind was first published in 1985.