Synopsis
Perfume (Parfum, 2018), Season 1 is a German crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM — six episodes that take Süskind's idea of scent as power and move it into the present day, as its own story rather than a film adaptation.
Singer Katharina Läufer is found dead, her scent glands cut from her body. Her funeral pulls five old boarding-school classmates back together, and one by one each becomes a suspect. Detective Nadja Simon runs the case while quietly compromising it through an affair with someone close to the group. Episode by episode, the obsession they all shared as teenagers comes back into view: the belief that a person's smell can be distilled and used to control others. An old missing-persons file from the school reopens. Across six chapters the net tightens, slow and cold.
This one lives on mood, not action — dark, sensual, occasionally hard to sit with, very much for fans of European noir. August Diehl and Friederike Becht carry it without a false note. Stream Perfume Season 1 online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S1·E1Ambergris
As police investigate the bizarre and brutal murder of alluring singer Katharina Läufer, five of her former classmates reunite at her funeral.
S1·E2Skatole
A missing persons case linked to the boarding school is reopened. When the friends play a strange game, tensions between Butsche and Roman boil over.
S1·E3Synthesis
The detectives make a gruesome discovery. At the brothel, Butsche bonds with Pearl's daughter, Elsie. Nadja learns about the group's shared obsession.
S1·E4The Third Substance
Butsche visits Elena for help with Elsie, angering Roman once again. Nadja drops a bomb on Grünberg and tests a provocative hypothesis about Katharina.
S1·E5The Heart Notes
Elena seeks safety in an unlikely place, Roman exacts revenge, and secrets from the past surface as Nadja interviews Merten Brodmann's mother.
S1·E6Captivation
When another victim turns up, the police zero in on a suspect. Nadja's lingering doubts -- and a tip from Köhler -- lead to a shocking confrontation.
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