I am not quite sure in what film genre I should place this movie. Sometimes, it’s a drama. In the next 10 minutes, the action turns to thriller. It is a movie about crime and human psychology… and at other times, it looks like a plain love story. I guess that this is what fascinated me most about “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”. I had never heard about Ben Whishaw before but his way of playing the role of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is really something else. Jean-Baptiste is a man with a superior olfactory sense which can distinguish each and every smell that he senses.
Living a harsh life but always wanting to take advantage of his gift, Jean-Baptiste ends up working for a perfume store and creating unique and astonishing perfumes. But as he grows to learn more about smell and scent, he is more eager to discover and preserve certain aromas which were not meant to be stored in a simple bottle. The plot thickens when Jean-Baptiste starts to discover that one of the smells that fascinates him most… is the scent of a woman’s skin…
Living a harsh life but always wanting to take advantage of his gift, Jean-Baptiste ends up working for a perfume store and creating unique and astonishing perfumes. But as he grows to learn more about smell and scent, he is more eager to discover and preserve certain aromas which were not meant to be stored in a simple bottle. The plot thickens when Jean-Baptiste starts to discover that one of the smells that fascinates him most… is the scent of a woman’s skin…
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