: The film uses rich colors and textures to "show" smell.
Grenouille’s obsession becomes his life’s purpose. Unable to create his own personal scent (he himself has no smell), he devotes himself to distilling the very essence of human beauty. His method, however, is cold, clinical, and horrifying: murder. One by one, he hunts down 25 young women to trap their scents in oils. The 26th, the red-haired daughter of a wealthy perfumer, becomes his mythic "ultimate perfume"—a scent so powerful it can control the emotions of every man, woman, and priest in a crowd.
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