Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice Meaning

Scentless Apprentice Lyrics

Like most babies smell like butter
His smell smelled like no other
He was born scentless and senseless
He was born a scentless apprentice

Go away - go away , go away.

Every wet nurse refused to feed him
Electrolytes smell like semen
I...

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   TheSeeker

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   Apr 2nd 2009 !⃝

   It's based off of one of Kurt Cobain's personal favorite books, the 1985 novel "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by the German author Patrick Suskind. It's set in Revolutionary period France (late 1700's), and tells the story of a young man born with no scent on his own body, but with a supremely gifted sense of smell. Having grown up abused and isolated because he was considered abnormal for having no scent, he comes to become an apprentice to a perfume-maker, seeking to make the perfect perfume that would finally make him human. In doing so, however, he turns to murder, killing young women in order to take their scent.
   
   Cobain liked the novel because he related to the main character's isolation and alienation from society. Kurt also had something of an interest in the aesthetics of scents, and, according to an interview, said that he had at one point considered opening a perfume shop after he quit being a rock star.
2. anonymous

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   Aug 8th 2011 !⃝

   whoever 'wrote' this song means that we are all the same outside(our hearts) but inside(our minds) were all different so GO AWAY LET ME BE ME AND I'LL LET YOU BE YOU, i think
3. anonymous

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   Sep 28th 2006 !⃝

   It's a story about a man that kills virgins for their scent. I don't know if it has anything to do with the book, for I have never read it.
4. anonymous

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   Jan 16th 2006 !⃝

   All is taken from the book by Patrik Süskind; Perfume (The Story about a killer)
   Every single line actually - Patrick Süskind gets thanks in the coversheet as well...
   
   And it's a bloody great book...
   
   ...Vader