Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I hated the movie so much that I can not even find words to describe it.It's mindless, sexist, poorly executed, and definitely not worth the time. The only reason I'm giving it two stars is that the basic idea - of someone perceiving the world through smells - is nice, and that's merely the only good thing about this movie.

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.

It never fails to amaze just how easily people are seduced into liking foolish works - mostly, simply because they look good! Stylish visuals, sets, effective wardrobe decoration, slick direction, don't always add up to a good movie. Perfume has all these attributes but is built around a mind-numbingly worthless story. Just think about this...a baby is born in an 18th-century street produce market, to a woman working on a fish stall to be exact. She's cutting off fish heads and throwing them onto the ground, then she almost vomits, at the same time she drops a baby (gives birth) onto this putrid floor. There lies the new born on the floor covered in absolute filth, with maggots crawling all around it. She intends to dump it along with the other rubbish but a customer happens to see it – so, she is hung for her crime – good riddance to this pitiful wretch.Now, this babe as it turns out grows up in a work house but seems to have the world's first supersonic nose, capable of picking up the slightest scents many, many, miles away (counties in fact!) - as if that premise alone isn't enough to put you off. He follows a young girl home to smell her but accidentally kills her in the attempt. He dumps the body but is now hooked on the odour of women. He then gets a job in a French perfume shop and sets about killing as many beautiful women as he can find (seems they smell better than 'ordinary' girls). Putting their bodies into huge glass vats filled with flower petals, he siphons off the juices as they decompose (a decomposing body that somehow smells like an irresistible sweet perfume!) Who writes this tosh? His murders escalate sending the town into a chaos of fear - is no woman safe from becoming a mere decomposing scent! Alan Rickman plays a father trying to protect his daughter – he tries to play it straight but looks all the while like he knows this script is on the nose. The murderous schnozzle is finally caught and sentenced to a public death in the town square but, he has a bottle of his best perfume in his coat pocket and with a wave of his handkerchief sends the entire population into a frenzy of copulation - thus turning attention from himself! Next, he douses himself with his irresistible decomposing female scent - which further so enamours the town folk that they eat him alive! This stinker is played for real and to the tune of 60 million Dollars – It's too self consciously serious to be good satire and too straight to work as horror. Who are these fools that will spend huge sums on junk like this? This is somewhat typical of many other international co-productions.The movie made money in Germany (sort of figures) and they wondered if the Americans would understand it. Seems the Americans not only understood but, could smell a rat and stayed away to protect their health. So, the movie fell afoul and languished on the trash heap. Bravo America! Preposterous over-everything simpleton fare masquerading as 'art'. But, managed to fool a few on the way. Critic A.O.Scott of the N.Y.T. (along with a couple of others) at least had the courage to sum it up perfectly. Now to get the stench out of my head.Footnote: Several IMDb reviewers do well with analyzing this but, maybe Mathew-Lolomgwtf (around the bottom of page 2 or so) nails it well enough to save you wasting any of your valuable time.

Previously I have read this book. I have also watched the movie yesterday and approximately this is the 25th times watching for me. And I must have to say, every-time I liked it. It was like as the book. At-least they tried to make it happens.One thing, it is very tough to visualize smells and in the movie, it was very realistic to watch. But for me, it was expressed pretty well. Even you can not smell the things, you can imagine how they smell which may be due to the cinematic work, which was amazing. The actors also did a really good part and obviously very lively, which was important. Everything, everyone who acts here, are very much lively.So, all in all I have to say, I think that it is a really interesting movie. And for me, this is one of the best "Can be repeatedly watchable" movie. Thanks Perfume.