Аромат

Kogda Ėliasa Revoli͡a sprashivai͡ut, gde on rabotaet, on otvechaet: "V kabinete aromaterapii". Na samom zhe dele on pomoshchnik olʹfaktora v filiale "Fragrant͡sii" - mogushchestvennoĭ korporat͡sii, kotorai͡a prodaet klientam vozmozhnostʹ posredstvom aromatov vozvrashchatʹsi͡a v proshloe. K zapakham u Ėliasa vrozhdennyĭ talant - on masterski prevrashchaet obryvki vospominaniĭ v khimicheskie formuly. "Fragrant͡sii͡a" dli͡a nego - ubezhishche: zapakhi spasai͡ut ego ot slishkom i͡arkogo, slishkom rezkogo mira. No, priekhav na stazhirovku v t͡sentralʹnyĭ ofis "Fragrant͡sii", i͡unosha stalkivaetsi͡a s zhestkoĭ, lishennoĭ santimentov Noroĭ Olsson, gotovoĭ vo chto by to ni stalo sokhranitʹ svoi sekrety - i korporativnye, i lichnye. I iz-za nee giperchuvstvitelʹnyĭ Ėlias, kotoryĭ mechtal razlivatʹ po flakonam nostalʹgicheskui͡u radostʹ, vvi͡azyvaetsi͡a v rassledovanie strashnogo dela i obnaruzhivaet, chto u prestupleniĭ tozhe estʹ zapakh. . . Polʹ Rishardo znaet, o chem govorit, - on i sam parfi͡umer. Rishardo vospitan na "Parfi͡umere" Zi͡uskinda i "tverdoĭ" nauchnoĭ fantastike, i potomu v ego sensornom trillere "Aromat" parfi͡umerii͡a strogo nauchna (ne schitai͡a odnogo fantasticheskogo dopushchenii͡a), a si͡uzhet derzhit za gorlo. Dazhe ego vymyshlennai͡a zloveshchai͡a korporat͡sii͡a rodilasʹ iz realʹno khodivshego vo frant͡suzskikh professionalʹnykh krugakh anekdota o tom, kak nekto planiroval podpolʹno aromatizirovatʹ alkogolʹ, chtoby potom kontrabandoĭ vvozitʹ ego v SSSR. "Aromat", debi͡utnyĭ roman Rishardo, uzhe pereveden na desi͡atok i͡azykov. Rishardo estʹ chto rasskazatʹ - i on rasskazyvaet: o slozhnom i divnom iskusstve aromata, o tonko nastroennykh chuvstvakh, kotorymi nadeleny nemnogie, o napri͡azhennom rassledovanii, kotoroe pochti nevozmozhno dovesti do kont͡sa, i o tom, chto spravedlivostʹ poroĭ ustroena slozhnee, chem nam by khotelosʹ, no vse-taki sushchestvuet. Vpervye na russkom!

When Elias Revol is asked where he works, he answers: "In the aromatherapy room." In fact, he is an assistant olfactor in the branch of Fragrance, a powerful corporation that sells customers the opportunity to return to the past through perfumes. Elias has an innate talent for smells — he masterfully transforms fragments of memories into chemical formulas. "Fragmentation" is a refuge for him: smells save him from a world that is too bright, too harsh. But, having arrived for an internship at the central office of Fragmentation, the young man encounters a tough, sentimentless Nora Olsson, who is ready to keep her secrets, both corporate and personal, at all costs. And because of her, the hypersensitive Elias, who dreamed of bottling nostalgic joy, gets involved in the investigation of a terrible case and discovers that crimes also have a smell. . . Paul Richardot knows what he's talking about—he's a perfumer himself. Richardot was raised on Suskind's "Perfume" and "hard" science fiction, and therefore in his sensory thriller "Fragrance" perfumery is strictly scientific (apart from one fantastic assumption), and the plot holds by the throat. Even his fictional sinister corporation was born out of a joke that was actually circulating in French professional circles about how someone planned to clandestinely flavor alcohol in order to smuggle it into the USSR. Fragrance, Richardot's debut novel, has already been translated into a dozen languages. Richardot has a lot to tell us, and he does: about the complex and wondrous art of fragrance, about finely tuned feelings that few people have, about an intense investigation that is almost impossible to complete, and about the fact that justice is sometimes more complicated than we would like, but still exists. For the first time in Russian!