One Hundred Years of Solitude

secret perfume, and then they
understood that the smell of
Remedios the Beauty kept on
torturing men beyond death,
right down to the dust of their
bones. Nevertheless, they did
not relate that horrible
accident to the other two men
who had died because of
Remedios the Beauty. A
victim was still needed before
the outsiders and many of the
old inhabitants of Macondo
would credit the legend that