Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

Tom Tykwer adapts this novel of the same name into a psychological thriller starring Ben Whishaw

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is a gifted perfumer who understands scent like nobody else in 18th-century France. His ultimate quest is to find and capture the scent of a young woman. But when the dead bodies of twelve young women are discovered, panic ensues and the search for the killer begins.