In one of the two parallel plot-lines here, Robbins juggles the separate attempts of various parfumiers around the world to come up with a perfume (upon a jasmine base) that will outenchant any previous concoction: Madame Devalier in New Orleans is feverishly experimenting so is her adopted daughter Priscilla in Seattle and the megs-company LeFever is also hard at work in Paris. These beliefs and fears point to the anxieties of the time and help flesh out the systems that keep Grenouille alive as an infant, enslaved as a teenager, and allow him a degree of freedom as a young man once he acquires his journeyman's papers.A round-Robbins on the themes of scent, so-called "floral consciousness," and immortality-skipping through time and space, but offering a little old-fashioned storytelling charm along with the usual cute/hip doodling. Father Terrier is bothered by the philosophers who question religion, and laments that nothing can simply be right or wrong anymore. He sees the new possibility for someone (like Pélissier) to move up the social ladder and become financially successful as a dangerous one, and is uncomfortable with the fact that due to the rise of humanism and growing interest in science, even women are reading now. Several characters in the novel are made very uncomfortable by these changes, most notably Baldini. This rise of the public sphere is also associated with the rise of capitalism. It also saw the rise of the "public sphere," which allowed for greater exchange of ideas and opened every topic up for criticism.
The Enlightenment saw a boom in philosophical, political, and scientific study, which in turn influenced the governing and religious institutions and began to lay the groundwork to change them into the types of institutions we'd recognize as modern.
Perfume takes place during the Enlightenment in France, which is most commonly dated from 1715, when Louis XIV, died to 1789, the year the French Revolution began.
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