Aroma

When Elias Revoya is asked where he works, he replies: “In the aromatherapy office.” In reality, he is an olfactory assistant in the ‘Fragrance’ branch – a powerful corporation that sells clients the ability to relive the past through scents.... Elias has an innate talent for smells – he masterfully transforms fragments of memories into chemical formulas. ‘Fragrance’ is a refuge for him: scents save him from an overly bright, overly harsh world. But upon arriving for an internship at the central office of ‘Fragrance,’ the young man encounters the tough, unsentimental Nora Olsson, who is determined to keep her secrets – both corporate and personal – at all costs. Because of her, the hypersensitive Elias, who dreamed of bottling nostalgic joy, gets embroiled in an investigation of a terrible crime and discovers that crimes also have a smell...
Paul Rishardo knows what he’s talking about – he is a perfumer himself. Rishardo was raised on 'Perfume' by Süskind and 'hard' science fiction, and thus in his sensory thriller 'Aroma' perfume is strictly scientific (except for one fantastic assumption), and the plot grips one by the throat. 
'Aroma,' Rishardo’s debut novel, has already been translated into a dozen languages. Rishardo has much to tell – and he tells it: about the complex and wondrous art of aroma, about the finely tuned feelings that few possess, about the intense investigation that is almost impossible to complete, and about how justice is sometimes organized in a more complicated way than we would like, but still exists.