P e r f u m e !

Have you seen this movie before?





The title of this movie is “PERFUME, The Story of The Murderer” by Tom Tykwer, based on the novel “Perfume” by Patrick Süskind. The film tells a story of a murderer who’s in deadly obsession for perfect scent. The murderer, Grenouille has desire to sustain scents forever by killing beautiful virgins. After he killed a woman, he will cut her hair, covered her in animal fat, and then distilling the fat to get the scent. After some experimenting, he realizes that by murdering beautiful virgins and capturing their scents will make him rule the world. Only one drop of the perfume will make the crowd overwhelmed.

If you have already watched this movie, you will understand how intense a perfume could be. It reflects how artifactual communication occurs. Different people have different scent that gives an attraction to others. For example, the scent of romance, sexiness, feminine, sporty, and etc. It reveals personalities of that person.


By: Nadia binti Wahid