Born in 18th Century France Jean Baptiste Grenouille is blessed with the gift of an extraordinary sense of smell and is the absolute master of his craft, perfumery, but his obsessive search for perfection, discovering the ultimate scent, reveals him to be a psychopath unfettered by moral shackles. Dark, lush and rich in visual atmosphere, this beautifully rendered, if shortened, adaptation of Patrick Suskind's novel is an eerie psychological thriller.