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Grenouille sees his perfume has made all those people at the orgy madly in love, but he can never love or be loved by other people because he is the one who controls the love. He is the creator. The fact that he has no scent makes him a constant outsider, he is a nobody to everybody. When he has a vision of the plum girl, he is imagining what could happen if he had a scent. He is also admitting to himself that no matter what he does, her smell can never be brought back.Grenouille has constantly said that the soul of beings is their scent, and, having no scent, he realizes he must have no soul. So he pours the perfume all over himself, which causes all the peasants to be so infatuated with him that they have to have some of him for themselves. What they are doing is not cannibalism.
To symbolize that Grenouille spreads death. In the book, not every character dies straight after they exit Grenouille's story, it just explains how they do die. For example, the orphanage owner dies 40 years after she leaves Grenouille at the tanners. In this case the movie chose to make the deaths more contrived than the book, implying that everyone died within a short time frame of Grenouille leaving their lives for the last time.
No she is not, nor is she deaf. She doesn't realize Grenouille is there because she can't smell him.
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