I almost didn't watch this series as I already saw the movie Perfume and read the book it was based on. Luckely someone told me it's not another version of it. It merely uses the crime in the book and weaves another story around it. Much like the crime from the book/movie a lot of the plot has already been done in many other series and movies and come over as clichéd and a filler for the grand story [spoiler](the love triangles, the cheating husband, the crazy lovestruck woman, the disjointed highschool friendships, the slut, the jock, the weirdo, the loving,...).[/spoiler] It also incorporates a shitload of red herrings putting suspicion on each and every character at one point or the other that can be refuted later on the series. I'm not quite sure yet if it's a cheap way of doing whodunnits but it works. In the end it's one of the people you at one point or the other suspected, you won't be surprised but you will be slightly flabbergasted for other reasons. All in all this is a very well made, typically neo-German series, that will keep you watching till the very end.

German psychological thriller based on Süskind's novel concept adjacent. Atmospheric but uneven pacing across the limited series.

One day, a well-known singer is found dead in her pool. Her hair is shaved off and she has cuts in both armpits and in the genital area. Who committed this gruesome act? And what about the modus operandi of the murder? "Parfum" is based on the novel "Perfume" written by Patrick Süskind in 1985. So the series had a very good premise that it just had to implement well. Unfortunately, I don't think that happened at all. The basic idea of the implementation is quit good, but other factors just didn't add up. For example, the script is just plain cruel. The dialogues are very flat and seem extremely monotonous. Also, the characters have extreme mood swings. One moment characters are killing each other and the next moment everything is fine again. Another problem is that the actors here probably wanted to appear "mysterious" and therefore spoke more quietly, but many of them start mumbling extremely, so that I often just didn't understand what was being said and I sometimes even got subtitles had to turn on. However, the actors aren't bad and most play their roles with conviction, but unfortunately they suffer from the bad script.

good, but sex scenes everytime ruin it a bit. I can watch porn if I want that.

Great show, the only weak spot is that it gives too much time to aspects of the story that don't really matter. There's also some annoying cinematography and editing choices as you can't help but think of how it could have been executed more cleanly. Worth watching just for Moritz tbh