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The movie ‘Perfume: The Story of a Murderer’ is a great adaptation of Patrick Süskinds novel ‘Das Parfum’. The book is certainly a master piece of opening the olfactory world by means of intense and dense narrative. I was very curious to see how this could be portrayed in a motion picture and I am impressed how this movie translates the sense of smell into a beautiful concoction of sound and image that captures the essence of the novel. Certain passages of the movie might appear out of context without having read the book, yet this doesn’t take away from the experience and, in fact, even adds to the mystique of a world that is explored outside of its own perimeters.