I loved it in the theater when it came out and just saw it again on dvd: still a great movie! People who rate this below 5 lack the patience and insight to watch such a good piece of art. I pity them for they miss a lot in life.

I have a special place in my heart for this movie. It's a very interesting story and the plot follows a great rate where you keep getting more and more invested in his choices. The characters a beautifully written and you really sense from the beginning that the story is in the characters. Furthermore it's though provoking and has a great ending. It's a little dark and maybe a tiny bit on the nasty side, but it also keeps the mystery going until the very end. Great movie, definitely worth a watch!

so here is a man who can smell well and here by mean of well i mean really really well like super power well in beginning it doesn't seem to a super power just seem to a extra ordinary ability but when he can detect people from other room or far from his distance than it seems to be a superpower well his life is full of straggle but he don't mind all he is concerned with smell just smell the best thing in this world sooner he meets to a perfumer maker and than he got that perfume is the best thing to smell and than he decide to made a perfume that never ever been made and try to collect things need to make it in those things there are some beautiful girls too so he just start killing them and use them to make their perfume ingredients he just kill a girl don't do any thing sexual with them well i was expecting some sexual stuff well moving on finally he made his perfume in meanwhile everyone know about him that he killed many girls so he got arrested and sentenced to death and when he were getting bringing in ground to get a hard painful death he just opened his made perfume that never ever have been made everyone starts to feel something amazing they never have experienced like they all are in heaven and also they starts to do sex with each other this scene was just so perfect it looks really heaven is now on earth. That was so amazing movie i just enjoyed it as a fantasy movie.

This movie, surely, isn't for everyone, but if you like it you will probably find a gem in this movie.It tells us the story of Jean Baptiste Grenouille, a boy who is born with an overdeveloped sense of smell and he wants to find the way to make all this different scents he smells to remain. The story is so great, told in an awesome way, and for me it was very original, something that you don't get to see that much these days. Because it's a story about perfumes, scents and smells, the movie had the difficult task to transmit that to us without having the possibility of the smells in a movie theater or in your house, but the director (Tom Tykwer) was able to recreate this world of smells in a very unique way. Although there were some parts that did not make much sense (why does he suddenly decides to live in the mountains? This is not really well explained) but they don't affect that much to the story development.Ben Wishaw shines here as Grenouille providing a performance with not many lines of dialogue but that transmits a lot with his movements and face gestures. He has that bit of innocence but also you see the madness he ends up with. Also Alan Rickman, who does not appear until the middle of the movie or so, provides a very powerful performance as the main antagonist, Richi the father of Laura, one of the possible future victims of Grenouille. The one I felt was a bit overdone was Dustin Hoffman who wasn't at the height of a perfume maker of Paris.The visuals in this movie were very stunning, with many powerful scenes (like the Final Perfume Scene, when Grenouille meets Laura or many more) that capture this aggressive, dark and gritty world but without needing violence or explosions , like in modern blockbusters, just keeping the tension and taking you to the world of scents in a wonderful way. And for that, the director had the help of himself, Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek to create a magnificent score that almost provides this "smell" that you cannot introduce in a movie with very beautiful and also very creepy melodies.I recommend you to watch this movie and after that you will see if you liked it or not but for me was a wonderful experience and I surely recommend it to everyone.