![]() This effort collides with a battle to recreate an intoxicating perfume based on beets that involves Priscilla, a local “genius waitress,” Madame Devalier, the scion of a New Orleans perfume shop, and the LeFever Parfumarie of Paris. As Alobar and Kudra figure out how to arrest the aging process and “dematerialize,” their paths converge in the present day where a similar desire to cheat death is explored at a Seattle-based foundation led by Wiggs Dannyboy. ![]() Their journey leads them to the Bandaloops, an ancient tribe who have mastered immortality, as well as the goat-god Pan, whose own existence is threatened by more fashionable deities. ![]() In his wanderings, he meets Kudra, an Indian girl trying to escape her own death, and the two become soulmates. At the end of the first millennium A.D., King Alobar of Bohemia rejects his fated demise to search for the answer to eternal life. Jitterbug Perfume recounts a 1,000-year quest for immortality, with plenty of stops along the way to discuss beets and bees and scents and sex. ![]()
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