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Perfume (2018)

Perfume poster
Original title
Parfum
Genre
thriller television series, drama film
Country
Germany
Length
1 season, 6 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 351 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of former boarding school friends reunite after a murder investigation reignites old secrets. The story follows detectives probing a series of killings linked to scent and memory in modern day Germany.

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What happens

Perfume (German: Parfum) is a German television drama series produced for ZDFneo that was released on November 14, 2018. The series is both inspired by the novel of the same name by Patrick Süskind and the 2006 film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Tom Tykwer but is set in the modern day. Netflix acquired worldwide airing rights outside of German-speaking Europe for the crime series. The series was released on Netflix on December 21, 2018. In general, the international reviews have been very positive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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