1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,000 23.976 English 2 00:01:19,385 --> 00:01:20,011 Quick. 3 00:01:20,261 --> 00:01:22,054 We can't hold them back much longer. 4 00:01:25,433 --> 00:01:26,058 Hurry. 5 00:01:29,896 --> 00:01:30,938 - Come on! - Get up! 6 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:39,906 Quick! 7 00:01:45,661 --> 00:01:46,287 Faster! 8 00:01:59,383 --> 00:02:01,302 Open the doors. Come on, quickly! 9 00:02:29,205 --> 00:02:31,165 Just read them the sentence. 10 00:02:35,211 --> 00:02:39,090 The sentence of the court is that in two days hence 11 00:02:39,257 --> 00:02:43,427 the perfumer journeyman Jean-Baptiste Grenouille 12 00:02:44,512 --> 00:02:46,847 shall be bound to a wooden cross 13 00:02:47,306 --> 00:02:49,475 with his face raised toward heaven. 14 00:02:52,061 --> 00:02:53,980 And whilst still alive 15 00:02:54,522 --> 00:02:57,775 be dealt twelve blows with an iron rod 16 00:03:00,403 --> 00:03:03,406 breaking the joints of his arms, 17 00:03:04,490 --> 00:03:06,033 his shoulders, 18 00:03:07,034 --> 00:03:08,077 his hips, 19 00:03:08,703 --> 00:03:09,704 his legs. 20 00:03:12,039 --> 00:03:16,168 He shall then be raised up to hang until dead 21 00:03:16,877 --> 00:03:19,547 and all customary acts of mercy 22 00:03:19,964 --> 00:03:22,383 are expressly forbidden the executioner. 23 00:03:32,101 --> 00:03:34,270 In 18th-century France, 24 00:03:34,562 --> 00:03:36,397 there lived a man who was one of the most gifted 25 00:03:36,564 --> 00:03:39,567 and notorious personages of his time. 26 00:03:40,943 --> 00:03:43,529 His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, 27 00:03:44,739 --> 00:03:47,158 and if his name has been forgotten today, it is 28 00:03:47,575 --> 00:03:51,746 for the reason that his ambition was restricted to a domain 29 00:03:51,913 --> 00:03:54,415 that leaves no trace in history: 30 00:03:59,503 --> 00:04:02,298 To the fleeting realm of scent. 31 00:04:03,243 --> 00:04:08,790 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) 32 00:04:16,687 --> 00:04:18,356 In the period of which we speak, 33 00:04:18,522 --> 00:04:21,067 there reigned in the cities a stench 34 00:04:21,234 --> 00:04:23,986 barely conceivable to us modern men and women. 35 00:04:25,404 --> 00:04:28,199 Naturally, the stench was foulest in Paris, 36 00:04:28,366 --> 00:04:30,952 for Paris was the largest city in Europe. 37 00:04:31,869 --> 00:04:35,539 And nowhere in Paris was that stench more profoundly repugnant 38 00:04:35,706 --> 00:04:37,750 than in the city's fish market. 39 00:04:39,710 --> 00:04:42,129 Here we are. I'll get another box. 40 00:04:43,631 --> 00:04:47,677 It was here, then, on the most putrid spot in the whole kingdom, 41 00:04:47,927 --> 00:04:49,762 that Jean-Baptiste Grenouille 42 00:04:49,929 --> 00:04:52,682 was born on the 17th of July, 1738. 43 00:05:17,790 --> 00:05:19,959 It was his mother's fifth birth. 44 00:05:20,126 --> 00:05:22,712 She'd delivered them all here under her fishstand, 45 00:05:22,878 --> 00:05:25,923 and all had been stillbirths, or semi-stillbirths, 46 00:05:26,090 --> 00:05:27,133 You all right? 47 00:05:28,009 --> 00:05:32,179 And the whole mess was shoveled with the fishguts into the river. 48 00:05:33,097 --> 00:05:35,016 It would be much the same today 49 00:05:36,392 --> 00:05:37,518 but then, 50 00:05:38,144 --> 00:05:40,897 Jean-Baptiste chose differently. 51 00:06:14,847 --> 00:06:15,890 What's that noise? 52 00:06:17,808 --> 00:06:19,143 - It's a baby. - What's going on here? 53 00:06:23,814 --> 00:06:25,191 It's a newborn. 54 00:06:25,775 --> 00:06:27,026 Where's its mother? 55 00:06:28,736 --> 00:06:29,820 She was just here. 56 00:06:31,948 --> 00:06:34,909 She tried to kill it. Her own child. 57 00:06:35,701 --> 00:06:37,620 She tried to kill her baby! 58 00:06:39,330 --> 00:06:40,790 There! There she is! 59 00:06:41,249 --> 00:06:42,667 Stop! Stop where you are! 60 00:06:42,833 --> 00:06:43,793 Murderer! 61 00:06:44,335 --> 00:06:47,880 Thus, the first sound to escape Grenouille's lips 62 00:06:48,130 --> 00:06:50,299 sent his mother to the gallows 63 00:06:53,970 --> 00:06:56,556 and Jean-Baptiste, by official order, 64 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,684 to the orphanage of Madame Gaillard. 65 00:07:03,854 --> 00:07:05,231 How many today? 66 00:07:05,606 --> 00:07:07,567 Four. Well, three and a half. 67 00:07:12,863 --> 00:07:14,991 As usual, more dead than alive. 68 00:07:15,324 --> 00:07:16,909 Just take the money and sign. 69 00:07:25,751 --> 00:07:26,794 Make room. 70 00:07:28,379 --> 00:07:30,214 - Where? - Move! 71 00:07:32,383 --> 00:07:33,968 Go on, now. 72 00:07:45,187 --> 00:07:46,063 Is it dead? 73 00:08:13,674 --> 00:08:15,676 That's not staying in my bed. 74 00:08:16,010 --> 00:08:18,846 - Let's throw it out, then. - What if it screams? 75 00:08:20,097 --> 00:08:21,224 Let's just kill it. 76 00:08:40,368 --> 00:08:42,119 Harder! Push! 77 00:08:43,913 --> 00:08:45,414 What are you doing? 78 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,928 For Mme Gaillard, Grenouille was a source of income, like any other. 79 00:08:59,762 --> 00:09:00,972 The children, however, sensed at once 80 00:09:01,722 --> 00:09:05,226 that there was something different about him. 81 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:26,330 By the age of five, Jean-Baptiste still could not talk. 82 00:09:27,832 --> 00:09:32,003 But he was born with a talent that made him unique among mankind. 83 00:10:35,566 --> 00:10:37,777 It was not that the other children hated him, 84 00:10:39,445 --> 00:10:41,864 they felt unnerved by him. 85 00:10:46,202 --> 00:10:50,248 Increasingly he became aware that his phenomenal sense of smell 86 00:10:50,414 --> 00:10:54,001 was a gift that had been given to him, and him alone. 87 00:11:03,219 --> 00:11:06,305 When Jean-Baptiste did finally learn to speak 88 00:11:06,472 --> 00:11:09,809 he soon found that everyday language proved inadequate 89 00:11:09,976 --> 00:11:13,980 for all the olfactory experiences accumulating within himself. 90 00:11:18,859 --> 00:11:19,735 Wood. 91 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:27,243 Warm wood. 92 00:11:28,911 --> 00:11:29,704 Grass. 93 00:11:31,038 --> 00:11:32,873 Wet grass. 94 00:11:33,374 --> 00:11:34,458 Stones. 95 00:11:35,418 --> 00:11:36,627 Warm stones. 96 00:11:39,755 --> 00:11:40,381 Water. 97 00:11:42,883 --> 00:11:44,135 Cold water. 98 00:11:50,892 --> 00:11:52,226 Frog. 99 00:11:54,812 --> 00:11:55,938 Wet stones. 100 00:11:57,106 --> 00:12:00,401 Big, wet frog stones. 101 00:12:02,528 --> 00:12:03,195 Something. 102 00:12:05,865 --> 00:12:06,741 Something. 103 00:12:07,742 --> 00:12:08,618 Something. 104 00:12:10,745 --> 00:12:14,916 By 13, Mme Gaillard no longer had room for Jean-Baptiste 105 00:12:15,082 --> 00:12:17,460 and therefore decided to sell him. 106 00:12:17,627 --> 00:12:18,252 Come on. 107 00:12:22,089 --> 00:12:22,965 Ten francs. 108 00:12:25,217 --> 00:12:28,387 From his first breath of the odor enveloping this man... 109 00:12:28,554 --> 00:12:30,765 Seven, and not one sou more. 110 00:12:30,973 --> 00:12:33,809 ... Grenouille knew that his life in Grimal's tannery 111 00:12:33,976 --> 00:12:37,104 would be worth precisely as much as the work he could accomplish. 112 00:12:41,150 --> 00:12:43,277 Unfortunately for Madame Gaillard, 113 00:12:47,114 --> 00:12:49,283 the bargain was short-lived. 114 00:12:55,623 --> 00:12:59,335 Life expectancy in the tannery was a mere five years 115 00:13:00,211 --> 00:13:03,881 but Jean-Baptiste proved to be as tough as a resilient bacterium. 116 00:13:04,715 --> 00:13:06,259 He adjusted to his new fate 117 00:13:06,425 --> 00:13:09,679 and became a paragon of docility and diligence. 118 00:13:09,845 --> 00:13:13,808 Slaved 15, 16 hours a day, summer and winter. 119 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:19,438 Gradually he became aware of a world beyond the tannery, 120 00:13:20,815 --> 00:13:24,986 where a Utopia of unexplored smells lay in store for him. 121 00:13:49,969 --> 00:13:50,595 Grenouille! 122 00:13:55,057 --> 00:13:58,185 Come with us. I'm taking you to town for delivery. 123 00:13:59,312 --> 00:14:01,981 Jean-Baptiste Grenouille had triumphed. 124 00:14:02,315 --> 00:14:03,482 He was alive 125 00:14:04,567 --> 00:14:07,653 and at last he was in his element. 126 00:14:47,235 --> 00:14:48,236 He was not choosy. 127 00:14:49,862 --> 00:14:54,033 He did not differentiate between what are good smells from bad, 128 00:14:56,077 --> 00:14:57,495 at least not yet. 129 00:15:01,165 --> 00:15:02,625 He was very greedy. 130 00:15:03,834 --> 00:15:08,005 The goal was to possess everything the world had to offer in odors. 131 00:15:10,007 --> 00:15:14,011 His only condition being, that they were new ones. 132 00:15:16,973 --> 00:15:20,476 Thousands upon thousands of odors formed an invisible gruel 133 00:15:20,643 --> 00:15:24,772 which he dissected into its most remote parts and pieces. 134 00:15:42,248 --> 00:15:42,915 Grenouille! 135 00:15:47,295 --> 00:15:47,920 Come on! 136 00:15:52,758 --> 00:15:53,426 Get your ass over here! 137 00:15:56,846 --> 00:15:59,932 He needs two dozen skins by next week. Can you do that? 138 00:16:00,850 --> 00:16:03,436 - Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah, come with me. 139 00:17:09,085 --> 00:17:10,336 What is it called? 140 00:17:10,670 --> 00:17:13,756 "Amor and Psyche", madame. My latest creation. 141 00:17:14,757 --> 00:17:16,217 May I try it? 142 00:17:16,676 --> 00:17:18,719 If you'll allow me, mademoiselle. 143 00:17:26,435 --> 00:17:28,479 Sheer heaven! 144 00:17:32,024 --> 00:17:35,361 Monsieur Pelissier, you are truly an artiste. 145 00:19:12,291 --> 00:19:15,044 Please, take them. I've got far too many. 146 00:20:04,594 --> 00:20:05,595 What do you want? 147 00:20:15,104 --> 00:20:15,980 Want to buy some? 148 00:20:29,994 --> 00:20:31,287 Two for a sou. 149 00:26:44,619 --> 00:26:47,872 Next time you run off like that, I'll kill you! 150 00:26:52,084 --> 00:26:54,670 That night, he could not sleep. 151 00:26:56,464 --> 00:27:00,635 The intoxicating power of the girl's scent made it clear to him 152 00:27:00,801 --> 00:27:04,972 why he'd come to his own life so tenaciously, so savagely. 153 00:27:06,599 --> 00:27:10,770 The purpose of his miserable existence had a higher destiny. 154 00:27:12,647 --> 00:27:15,107 He would learn how to preserve scent 155 00:27:15,733 --> 00:27:19,528 so that never again would he lose such sublime beauty. 156 00:27:44,303 --> 00:27:47,765 There were about a dozen perfumers in Paris in those days. 157 00:27:49,016 --> 00:27:53,187 One of them, the once-celebrated Italian perfumer, Giuseppe Baldini, 158 00:27:53,354 --> 00:27:56,899 had set up shop in the center of the bridge called Pont au Change 159 00:27:57,066 --> 00:28:00,152 on his arrival in Paris over thirty years ago. 160 00:28:00,945 --> 00:28:04,991 To be sure, at one time in his youth, Baldini had created 161 00:28:05,366 --> 00:28:09,287 several truly great perfumes, to which he owed his fortune. 162 00:28:10,997 --> 00:28:13,457 But now Baldini was 163 00:28:13,624 --> 00:28:15,751 out of touch, out of fashion, 164 00:28:15,918 --> 00:28:19,672 and spent his days waiting for customers that no longer came. 165 00:28:21,591 --> 00:28:23,593 - Chénier! There you are! - Monsieur Baldini. 166 00:28:23,801 --> 00:28:24,844 Put on your wig. 167 00:28:26,053 --> 00:28:27,221 Put on your wig! 168 00:28:29,765 --> 00:28:30,600 You going out? 169 00:28:31,183 --> 00:28:33,436 I wish to retire to my study for a few hours 170 00:28:33,603 --> 00:28:36,105 and do not want to be disturbed under any circumstances. 171 00:28:36,314 --> 00:28:37,899 Will you be creating a new perfume, Monsieur Baldini? 172 00:28:39,025 --> 00:28:41,068 Correct. For Count Verhamont. 173 00:28:41,777 --> 00:28:45,448 He has asked for something like... I think he said it was called 174 00:28:46,282 --> 00:28:50,453 Amor and Psyche from that swindler in the Rue Saint André des Arts. 175 00:28:51,037 --> 00:28:51,662 Pelissier? 176 00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:54,165 Pelissier, that's him. 177 00:28:56,042 --> 00:28:57,543 Amor and Psyche! 178 00:29:02,465 --> 00:29:03,216 Do you know it? 179 00:29:03,382 --> 00:29:06,302 Oh, yes. You can smell it everywhere these days, monsieur. 180 00:29:07,637 --> 00:29:08,888 On every street corner. 181 00:29:10,389 --> 00:29:13,517 In fact, I just purchased you a sample. 182 00:29:15,561 --> 00:29:16,979 In case you wanted to test it. 183 00:29:20,358 --> 00:29:23,194 What on earth makes you think I'd be interested in testing it? 184 00:29:25,279 --> 00:29:27,823 You're right. It's nothing special. 185 00:29:28,366 --> 00:29:31,202 Actually it's a very common scent. 186 00:29:31,744 --> 00:29:34,580 I believe the head chord contains lime oil. 187 00:29:36,707 --> 00:29:40,002 Really? And the heart chord? 188 00:29:40,878 --> 00:29:42,797 Orange blossom, I believe. 189 00:29:43,714 --> 00:29:46,384 And civet in the base chord, 190 00:29:46,551 --> 00:29:48,094 but, you know, I cannot say for sure. 191 00:29:48,261 --> 00:29:51,138 Well, I couldn't care less what that bungler Pelissier 192 00:29:51,305 --> 00:29:53,599 - slops into his perfumes. - Naturally not, monsieur. 193 00:29:54,433 --> 00:29:57,478 And I am thinking of creating something for Count Verhamont 194 00:29:58,354 --> 00:30:00,815 that will cause a veritable sensation. 195 00:30:02,108 --> 00:30:03,859 I'm sure it will, Monsieur Baldini. 196 00:30:05,069 --> 00:30:08,656 Take charge of the shop, Chénier, and don't let anyone come near me. 197 00:30:09,115 --> 00:30:11,951 Inspiration requires peace and tranquility. 198 00:30:54,785 --> 00:30:55,995 Is there anything else you need? 199 00:30:57,288 --> 00:30:58,915 Inspiration, perhaps. 200 00:30:59,373 --> 00:31:00,750 Ah, my Giuseppe. 201 00:31:03,377 --> 00:31:05,880 You are still the great perfumer Baldini. 202 00:32:01,769 --> 00:32:02,687 Wonderful. 203 00:32:07,024 --> 00:32:08,568 He did it again. 204 00:32:16,367 --> 00:32:17,702 Lime oil. 205 00:32:21,330 --> 00:32:22,665 Orange blossom, 206 00:32:23,624 --> 00:32:24,250 to be sure. 207 00:32:29,005 --> 00:32:30,840 And a hint of cloves, perhaps. 208 00:32:33,092 --> 00:32:33,843 No. 209 00:32:36,012 --> 00:32:37,054 Or could be cinnamon? 210 00:32:39,807 --> 00:32:40,433 It's gone. 211 00:32:44,687 --> 00:32:45,313 Cinnamon. 212 00:32:46,856 --> 00:32:47,732 It's not cinnamon. 213 00:32:52,153 --> 00:32:52,778 Cloves. 214 00:32:53,404 --> 00:32:54,030 No. 215 00:32:55,239 --> 00:32:56,115 Musk? 216 00:32:56,324 --> 00:32:56,949 No. 217 00:33:38,115 --> 00:33:39,158 Who's there? 218 00:33:39,533 --> 00:33:41,285 I'm from Grimal's tannery. 219 00:33:44,830 --> 00:33:46,457 I've got the goatskins you ordered. 220 00:33:52,964 --> 00:33:53,714 Follow me. 221 00:34:00,304 --> 00:34:00,930 This way. 222 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:36,507 There. 223 00:34:37,383 --> 00:34:38,175 Lay them there. 224 00:34:48,019 --> 00:34:50,354 Tell your master that the skins are fine. 225 00:34:50,521 --> 00:34:52,732 I'll come by in the next few days and pay for them. 226 00:34:54,066 --> 00:34:54,859 Yes, Monsieur. 227 00:35:01,616 --> 00:35:03,910 You want to make this leather smell good, don't you? 228 00:35:05,828 --> 00:35:07,580 Why, of course and so it shall. 229 00:35:08,539 --> 00:35:10,333 With Amor & Psyche by Pelissier? 230 00:35:15,504 --> 00:35:19,133 Whatever gave you the absurd idea I would use someone else's perfume? 231 00:35:20,218 --> 00:35:21,510 It's all over you. 232 00:35:22,094 --> 00:35:24,222 It's on your forehead, your nose, your hands... 233 00:35:24,388 --> 00:35:26,474 It's bad, Amor & Psyche is, Master. 234 00:35:26,641 --> 00:35:28,184 There's too much rosemary in it. 235 00:35:28,351 --> 00:35:29,518 And too much of... 236 00:35:31,229 --> 00:35:33,022 that and that. 237 00:35:36,359 --> 00:35:39,445 Bergamot and Patchouli? 238 00:35:39,695 --> 00:35:40,321 Pat...? 239 00:35:41,739 --> 00:35:42,406 Patchouli. 240 00:35:42,740 --> 00:35:43,616 Patchouli. 241 00:35:49,372 --> 00:35:49,997 What else? 242 00:35:54,126 --> 00:35:54,794 That and that. 243 00:35:57,421 --> 00:35:58,172 That and that. 244 00:36:08,391 --> 00:36:09,600 Orange blossom, 245 00:36:11,435 --> 00:36:12,061 lime... 246 00:36:13,646 --> 00:36:14,897 - Rosemary. - Musk. 247 00:36:18,859 --> 00:36:20,027 And cloves? 248 00:36:20,486 --> 00:36:21,195 And this. 249 00:36:30,663 --> 00:36:32,999 - Storax? - That's in it too. 250 00:36:33,249 --> 00:36:36,210 - Storax. - Storax. 251 00:36:43,384 --> 00:36:46,095 You have, it appears, a fine nose, young man. 252 00:36:46,262 --> 00:36:48,556 My nose knows all the smells in the world. 253 00:36:48,723 --> 00:36:51,559 It's the best nose in Paris, only I don't know the names. 254 00:36:51,726 --> 00:36:53,185 I need to learn the names, learn them all... 255 00:36:53,352 --> 00:36:54,478 No, no, no! 256 00:36:54,687 --> 00:36:56,397 You dont interrupt me when I'm speaking. 257 00:36:56,564 --> 00:36:58,524 You are both impertinent and insolent. 258 00:36:59,734 --> 00:37:01,861 Even I don't know every scent. 259 00:37:04,530 --> 00:37:07,700 I've, of course, known for some time the ingredients of Amor & Psyche. 260 00:37:07,867 --> 00:37:11,913 But all it needs to find that out is a passably fine nose, nothing else. 261 00:37:13,956 --> 00:37:16,959 But it needs the craft of a true perfumer 262 00:37:18,002 --> 00:37:19,795 to detect the exact formula, 263 00:37:20,546 --> 00:37:22,381 which notes, which chords, 264 00:37:22,590 --> 00:37:24,884 and in what precise measurements. 265 00:37:26,636 --> 00:37:29,680 Could you tell me the exact formula of Amor & Psyche? 266 00:37:32,558 --> 00:37:33,768 Best-nose-in-Paris! 267 00:37:39,523 --> 00:37:40,233 Speak up! 268 00:37:42,026 --> 00:37:43,194 You see, you can't. Can you? 269 00:37:43,778 --> 00:37:44,987 And I'll tell you why. 270 00:37:46,614 --> 00:37:48,908 Because talent means next to nothing, 271 00:37:51,452 --> 00:37:53,955 while experience acquired 272 00:37:54,455 --> 00:37:57,583 in humility and hard work means everything. 273 00:38:02,421 --> 00:38:04,549 I don't know what a formula is, 274 00:38:05,299 --> 00:38:07,552 but I can make Amor & Psyche for you now. 275 00:38:09,470 --> 00:38:12,515 And you think ljust let you slop around in my laboratory 276 00:38:12,682 --> 00:38:14,809 with essential oils that are worth a fortune? 277 00:38:15,142 --> 00:38:15,768 You? 278 00:38:16,936 --> 00:38:17,562 Yes. 279 00:38:18,062 --> 00:38:19,272 Now pay attention! 280 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:24,443 What is your name, anyway? 281 00:38:26,946 --> 00:38:28,155 Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. 282 00:38:31,075 --> 00:38:33,035 Very well, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, 283 00:38:35,538 --> 00:38:38,583 you shall have the opportunity now to prove your assertion. 284 00:38:38,916 --> 00:38:41,752 Your grandiose failure will also be an opportunity for you 285 00:38:42,128 --> 00:38:43,796 to learn the virtue of humility. 286 00:38:43,963 --> 00:38:46,924 - How much do you want me to make? - How much of what...? 287 00:38:47,300 --> 00:38:48,885 How much Amor & Psyche do you want? 288 00:38:51,804 --> 00:38:53,180 Shall I fill this flask? 289 00:38:53,598 --> 00:38:55,349 No! You shall not! 290 00:39:05,192 --> 00:39:06,235 You may fill this one. 291 00:39:06,569 --> 00:39:07,528 Yes, Master. 292 00:39:11,157 --> 00:39:12,575 But, Master Baldini... 293 00:39:13,784 --> 00:39:16,120 You must let me do it in my own way. 294 00:39:16,787 --> 00:39:17,788 As you please. 295 00:39:23,878 --> 00:39:24,503 No! 296 00:39:25,254 --> 00:39:29,342 Don't drop it. That's pure alcohol. You want to blow up the building? 297 00:39:32,386 --> 00:39:33,930 You have to measure it first! 298 00:40:22,687 --> 00:40:24,522 Stop, stop it! 299 00:40:24,772 --> 00:40:26,232 That's enough! 300 00:40:26,732 --> 00:40:27,858 You know nothing! 301 00:40:28,568 --> 00:40:31,112 Essential oils are always to be mixed first, 302 00:40:31,696 --> 00:40:33,155 then the alcohol added 303 00:40:33,364 --> 00:40:36,367 and never ever is perfume to be shaken like that! 304 00:40:36,867 --> 00:40:39,787 I must have been insane to listen to your asinine gibberish! 305 00:40:42,456 --> 00:40:43,291 It's all done. 306 00:41:29,879 --> 00:41:31,172 This is Amor & Psyche! 307 00:41:32,924 --> 00:41:34,884 But it's not a good perfume, Master. 308 00:41:36,761 --> 00:41:39,972 If you let me again, Master, I'll make it more better. 309 00:42:55,381 --> 00:42:57,383 Now it's a really good perfume. 310 00:43:04,599 --> 00:43:06,601 Don't you want to smell it, Master? 311 00:43:06,767 --> 00:43:08,769 I'm not in the mood to test it now. 312 00:43:08,936 --> 00:43:11,314 I have other things on my mind. Go now. 313 00:43:13,649 --> 00:43:15,443 - But, Master... - Go! Now! 314 00:43:31,167 --> 00:43:33,294 Can I come to work for you, master? Can I? 315 00:43:36,214 --> 00:43:37,506 Let me think about it. 316 00:43:37,673 --> 00:43:38,299 Master! 317 00:43:40,301 --> 00:43:43,429 I have to learn how to keep smell! 318 00:43:44,805 --> 00:43:45,514 What? 319 00:43:47,099 --> 00:43:48,434 Can you teach me that? 320 00:43:49,852 --> 00:43:51,646 I shall have to think about it. Now, go. 321 00:44:38,609 --> 00:44:39,485 I love you. 322 00:44:46,617 --> 00:44:48,744 I'll give you 50 francs for him. 323 00:44:56,502 --> 00:44:57,336 Grenouille! 324 00:44:58,379 --> 00:45:00,673 Grimal's transaction 325 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,259 had a profound effect on all three parties. 326 00:45:06,929 --> 00:45:09,599 Not least upon Monsieur Grimal himself. 327 00:45:12,810 --> 00:45:16,272 As for Giuseppe Baldini, the acquisition of Grenouille 328 00:45:16,439 --> 00:45:19,734 miraculously transformed his dwindling business 329 00:45:19,901 --> 00:45:22,570 even surpassing its former glory. 330 00:45:30,912 --> 00:45:32,705 While at last, for Jean-Baptiste, 331 00:45:32,872 --> 00:45:35,458 the mysterious secrets of the perfumer's craft 332 00:45:36,042 --> 00:45:37,668 began to unfold. 333 00:45:43,966 --> 00:45:46,636 Now, pay careful attention to what I tell you. 334 00:45:46,802 --> 00:45:49,972 Just like a musical chord, a perfume chord contains 335 00:45:50,139 --> 00:45:51,307 four essences 336 00:45:51,474 --> 00:45:55,311 or notes, carefully selected for their harmonic affinity. 337 00:45:55,603 --> 00:45:58,439 Each perfume contains three chords: 338 00:45:58,606 --> 00:46:00,608 The head, the heart and the base, 339 00:46:01,192 --> 00:46:03,486 necessitating twelve notes in all. 340 00:46:04,403 --> 00:46:06,405 The head chord contains 341 00:46:06,572 --> 00:46:09,116 the first impression, lasting a few minutes 342 00:46:09,283 --> 00:46:11,327 before giving way to the heart chord, 343 00:46:11,494 --> 00:46:14,914 the theme of the perfume, lasting several hours. 344 00:46:15,081 --> 00:46:17,416 Finally, the base chord, 345 00:46:18,209 --> 00:46:21,504 the trail of the perfume, lasting several days. 346 00:46:26,300 --> 00:46:29,262 Mind you, the ancient Egyptians believed that one can only create 347 00:46:29,428 --> 00:46:33,349 a truly original perfume by adding an extra note, 348 00:46:33,891 --> 00:46:37,478 one final essence that will ring out 349 00:46:38,396 --> 00:46:40,273 and dominate the others. 350 00:46:42,984 --> 00:46:47,154 Legend has it that an amphora was once found in a pharaoh's tomb 351 00:46:47,780 --> 00:46:51,409 and when it was opened a perfume was released. 352 00:46:51,576 --> 00:46:54,537 After all those thousands of years, 353 00:46:54,704 --> 00:46:58,708 a perfume of such subtle beauty and yet such power, 354 00:46:58,875 --> 00:47:01,419 that for one single moment 355 00:47:01,586 --> 00:47:05,756 every person on earth believed they were in paradise. 356 00:47:08,050 --> 00:47:10,511 Twelve essences could be identified, 357 00:47:11,721 --> 00:47:13,014 but the 13th, 358 00:47:14,223 --> 00:47:15,349 the vital one, 359 00:47:17,393 --> 00:47:19,270 could never be determined. 360 00:47:21,230 --> 00:47:22,023 Why not? 361 00:47:24,567 --> 00:47:26,694 Why not? What do you mean, why not? 362 00:47:28,237 --> 00:47:30,823 Because it's a legend, numbskull! 363 00:47:32,074 --> 00:47:33,367 What's a legend? 364 00:47:35,953 --> 00:47:36,787 Never mind. 365 00:48:19,205 --> 00:48:20,081 Jean-Baptiste. 366 00:48:20,665 --> 00:48:21,541 Jean-Baptiste? 367 00:48:27,797 --> 00:48:28,923 What's the matter? 368 00:48:29,507 --> 00:48:30,174 Master, 369 00:48:31,092 --> 00:48:33,386 I have to learn how to capture scent. 370 00:48:36,347 --> 00:48:37,557 What are you talking about? 371 00:48:38,099 --> 00:48:40,810 I have to learn how to capture scent 372 00:48:40,977 --> 00:48:42,395 and reprise it forever. 373 00:48:43,062 --> 00:48:44,272 You mean, preserve. 374 00:48:44,605 --> 00:48:45,982 You have to teach me that. 375 00:48:46,732 --> 00:48:48,150 All right. Calm down, my boy. 376 00:48:48,985 --> 00:48:49,652 Calm down. 377 00:48:50,695 --> 00:48:51,904 We have work to do. 378 00:48:54,156 --> 00:48:56,492 "The soul of beings is their scent." 379 00:48:57,868 --> 00:48:59,245 You said that, master. 380 00:49:00,913 --> 00:49:01,622 Did I? 381 00:49:02,498 --> 00:49:04,584 I will make you as many perfumes as you want 382 00:49:04,792 --> 00:49:06,377 but you have to teach me 383 00:49:06,752 --> 00:49:08,880 how to capture the smell of all things. 384 00:49:10,673 --> 00:49:11,591 Can you do that? 385 00:49:13,384 --> 00:49:15,428 Well, naturally. 386 00:49:15,761 --> 00:49:17,680 Then teach me everything you know 387 00:49:21,309 --> 00:49:23,686 and I'll make you the best perfume in the whole world. 388 00:49:41,954 --> 00:49:43,873 Imagine, Jean-Baptiste, 389 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:47,084 ten thousand roses to produce 390 00:49:47,251 --> 00:49:50,296 one single ounce of essential oil. 391 00:49:53,799 --> 00:49:57,553 Now, keep the air flowing or the bottom petals will begin to stew 392 00:49:58,763 --> 00:50:02,308 while I set up the alembic. And take care not to damage them. 393 00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,728 We have to let them go to their deaths with their scent intact. 394 00:50:24,956 --> 00:50:25,706 Perfect. 395 00:50:26,832 --> 00:50:28,417 Now, help me with the Moor's head. 396 00:50:41,764 --> 00:50:43,307 Temperature is vital. 397 00:50:43,474 --> 00:50:47,186 When the quicksilver is here, the heat is precisely correct 398 00:50:47,353 --> 00:50:49,981 and the oil will gradually rise. 399 00:50:52,608 --> 00:50:56,737 Note this mechanism is a remarkable invention of my own devising. 400 00:50:57,572 --> 00:51:00,408 You will observe how cold water 401 00:51:01,033 --> 00:51:03,661 is pumped through here 402 00:51:06,038 --> 00:51:09,333 allowing the essence to condense here 403 00:51:09,500 --> 00:51:13,588 until it finally appears 404 00:51:15,631 --> 00:51:16,424 here. 405 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:21,012 Of course, out on the hillside above Grasse 406 00:51:21,178 --> 00:51:23,890 we had only to bellow pure, fresh air. 407 00:51:25,349 --> 00:51:28,436 Ah, Grasse. What a town. 408 00:51:30,396 --> 00:51:32,106 The Rome of scents. 409 00:51:33,441 --> 00:51:35,860 The Promised Land of perfume. 410 00:51:37,570 --> 00:51:41,741 No man can rightly call himself a perfumer 411 00:51:42,283 --> 00:51:46,454 unless he has proved his worth in that hallowed place. 412 00:51:49,207 --> 00:51:51,709 Not to worry. Happens all the time. 413 00:51:53,711 --> 00:51:54,462 To Grasse. 414 00:52:13,147 --> 00:52:13,773 Master. 415 00:52:15,483 --> 00:52:16,108 Look. 416 00:52:22,073 --> 00:52:24,033 The very soul of the rose. 417 00:53:18,629 --> 00:53:19,380 Jean-Baptiste. 418 00:53:23,217 --> 00:53:23,968 What's wrong? 419 00:53:26,012 --> 00:53:27,013 Jean-Baptiste. 420 00:53:30,433 --> 00:53:31,517 What have you done? 421 00:53:32,268 --> 00:53:34,228 - You lied. - What? 422 00:53:35,271 --> 00:53:36,188 You lied to me. 423 00:53:37,565 --> 00:53:40,318 How dare you talk to me like that. 424 00:53:41,736 --> 00:53:44,488 You said I could capture the scent of anything. 425 00:53:45,364 --> 00:53:46,532 And so you can. 426 00:53:50,995 --> 00:53:52,121 What do you smell? 427 00:53:53,414 --> 00:53:54,540 What do you smell? 428 00:54:00,087 --> 00:54:00,796 Nothing. 429 00:54:04,383 --> 00:54:06,260 What were you expecting to smell? 430 00:54:06,594 --> 00:54:07,428 Glass. 431 00:54:08,679 --> 00:54:10,264 But glass doesn't smell. 432 00:54:10,681 --> 00:54:12,475 Course it does. What's this? 433 00:54:17,980 --> 00:54:19,357 I don't smell a thing. 434 00:54:20,566 --> 00:54:22,443 It should smell like copper! 435 00:54:22,693 --> 00:54:23,444 Enough! 436 00:54:26,739 --> 00:54:30,117 You were trying to distill the smell of copper? 437 00:54:30,743 --> 00:54:33,746 Iron? Glass? Copper? 438 00:54:38,167 --> 00:54:39,627 What else did you try? 439 00:54:43,589 --> 00:54:44,549 No! 440 00:54:45,925 --> 00:54:48,970 Have you gone completely insane? 441 00:54:49,887 --> 00:54:51,847 You told me I had to experiment. 442 00:54:52,682 --> 00:54:54,809 Experiment? Experiment? 443 00:54:55,518 --> 00:54:57,436 But not with the cat. 444 00:55:00,815 --> 00:55:02,525 What kind of a human being are you? 445 00:55:03,442 --> 00:55:04,902 Don't you know anything? 446 00:55:05,486 --> 00:55:07,572 You can no more distill the scent of a cat 447 00:55:07,738 --> 00:55:09,699 than you can distill the scent of you or me. 448 00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:21,752 I can't? 449 00:55:22,169 --> 00:55:23,296 Of course not! 450 00:55:31,220 --> 00:55:32,763 He is in stadio ultimo. 451 00:55:32,930 --> 00:55:34,265 - What? - He's dying. 452 00:55:34,599 --> 00:55:36,142 Is there nothing you can do? 453 00:55:36,601 --> 00:55:39,812 - I fear not. - No! He cannot die. 454 00:55:40,313 --> 00:55:42,273 Well, my fee is 50 francs. 455 00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:43,566 50 francs? 456 00:55:43,733 --> 00:55:46,694 You charlatan! You can't even name the disease! 457 00:55:50,740 --> 00:55:52,617 No! Jean-Baptiste! 458 00:55:55,161 --> 00:55:56,579 You cannot do this to me. 459 00:55:57,622 --> 00:56:01,792 Not now. Not yet. 460 00:56:13,638 --> 00:56:14,472 Is there 461 00:56:19,727 --> 00:56:20,937 any other way 462 00:56:23,189 --> 00:56:25,983 to preserve smell besides distill it? 463 00:56:26,442 --> 00:56:27,652 Jean-Baptiste? 464 00:56:33,199 --> 00:56:34,367 Is there, master? 465 00:56:35,952 --> 00:56:38,955 Well, yes, I believe there is. 466 00:56:40,665 --> 00:56:41,666 What is it? 467 00:56:44,502 --> 00:56:48,172 It is known as the mysterious art of enfleurage. 468 00:56:51,133 --> 00:56:52,093 Can you teach me? 469 00:56:56,013 --> 00:56:58,808 Not even I am intimate with its secrets. 470 00:57:02,144 --> 00:57:04,230 But could I learn it in Grasse? 471 00:57:05,481 --> 00:57:08,150 - Well... - Could I? 472 00:57:14,574 --> 00:57:16,367 Where else but in Grasse? 473 00:57:24,041 --> 00:57:26,460 Within a week Grenouille was well again, 474 00:57:26,627 --> 00:57:30,798 but to travel to Grasse to find ajob he needed journey papers. 475 00:57:32,383 --> 00:57:34,135 Baldini agreed to provide them 476 00:57:34,510 --> 00:57:36,387 on condition that Grenouille left him 477 00:57:36,554 --> 00:57:40,016 not less than one hundred formulas for new perfumes. 478 00:57:41,225 --> 00:57:44,979 Grenouille did not mind. He could have given him a thousand. 479 00:57:51,277 --> 00:57:55,239 The morning of Grenouille's departure, Baldini was pleased. 480 00:57:55,531 --> 00:57:59,410 At last, he felt rewarded for his many years of hard work. 481 00:58:00,203 --> 00:58:03,039 He could not remember a happier day. 482 00:58:03,831 --> 00:58:06,876 Deeply satisfied, he went back to sleep 483 00:58:07,043 --> 00:58:09,795 and awoke no more in this life. 484 00:58:29,482 --> 00:58:33,653 With every step he took from the city, the happier he felt. 485 00:58:34,737 --> 00:58:38,908 The air above him grew clearer, purer, cleaner, 486 00:58:39,659 --> 00:58:42,703 and at last he was able to breathe freely. 487 00:58:46,457 --> 00:58:48,834 There were two ways to reach Grasse. 488 00:58:49,752 --> 00:58:52,964 The first followed the winding roads through the villages 489 00:58:53,130 --> 00:58:57,260 while the second lead across the mountains, down into Provence. 490 00:58:59,595 --> 00:59:01,430 The choice was quite easy. 491 00:59:05,810 --> 00:59:08,062 Thus his nose led him ever higher, 492 00:59:08,271 --> 00:59:10,565 ever further from mankind, 493 00:59:11,482 --> 00:59:15,653 more towards the magnetic pole of the greatest possible solitude. 494 00:59:55,443 --> 00:59:59,196 Grenouille needed a moment to believe that he had actually found 495 00:59:59,363 --> 01:00:02,950 a spot on earth where scent was almost absent. 496 01:00:08,331 --> 01:00:12,501 Spread all around lay nothing but the tranquil scent of dead stone. 497 01:00:16,214 --> 01:00:18,674 There was something sacred about this place. 498 01:00:23,054 --> 01:00:25,848 No longer distracted by anything external, 499 01:00:26,390 --> 01:00:30,228 he was finally able to bask in his own existence 500 01:00:32,772 --> 01:00:34,565 and found it splendid. 501 01:00:43,407 --> 01:00:47,161 After a while, he almost forgot his plans and obsessions 502 01:00:49,247 --> 01:00:52,375 and, indeed, might have done so altogether. 503 01:01:07,598 --> 01:01:08,349 Hello? 504 01:01:13,020 --> 01:01:13,771 Hello? 505 01:01:17,108 --> 01:01:17,858 Hello? 506 01:01:36,377 --> 01:01:39,171 There were a thousand smells in his clothes. 507 01:01:39,338 --> 01:01:42,133 The smell of sand, stone, moss. 508 01:01:42,300 --> 01:01:45,511 Even the smell of the sausage he'd eaten weeks ago. 509 01:01:45,678 --> 01:01:47,847 Only one smell was not there. 510 01:01:51,100 --> 01:01:52,226 His own. 511 01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:33,851 For the first time, Grenouille realized he had no smell. 512 01:02:36,437 --> 01:02:40,441 He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. 513 01:02:41,484 --> 01:02:45,071 What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. 514 01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:49,617 It was as though he did not exist. 515 01:02:55,456 --> 01:02:59,585 By the first light of next morning, Grenouille had a new plan. 516 01:03:00,211 --> 01:03:02,380 He must continue his journey to Grasse. 517 01:03:03,464 --> 01:03:06,884 There he would teach the world not only that he existed, 518 01:03:07,051 --> 01:03:08,803 that he was someone, 519 01:03:09,178 --> 01:03:11,180 but that he was exceptional. 520 01:03:15,601 --> 01:03:16,978 And with this decision 521 01:03:17,937 --> 01:03:21,607 it seemed that the gods had at last begun to smile on him. 522 01:04:44,106 --> 01:04:45,149 Go in. 523 01:07:49,625 --> 01:07:50,251 Laura? 524 01:07:58,843 --> 01:07:59,468 Laura? 525 01:08:00,803 --> 01:08:01,679 Coming, Papa. 526 01:08:39,383 --> 01:08:41,302 Haven't seen you here before. 527 01:08:43,262 --> 01:08:44,722 It's my first season. 528 01:08:46,349 --> 01:08:48,142 Picking together is always more fun. 529 01:08:50,061 --> 01:08:51,771 They say you pick everything you find. 530 01:09:36,607 --> 01:09:37,233 Idiot! 531 01:09:37,900 --> 01:09:40,194 How many times have I told you not to cram the blossoms in 532 01:09:40,403 --> 01:09:43,781 like you're stuffing a chicken? 533 01:09:44,031 --> 01:09:45,783 Watch how Grenouille does it. 534 01:09:47,952 --> 01:09:50,121 Look how skillfully he handles them. 535 01:09:50,621 --> 01:09:54,333 The whole art of enfleurage is to allow the flowers to die slowly. 536 01:09:54,500 --> 01:09:56,627 In their sleep, as it were. 537 01:09:56,794 --> 01:10:00,923 Handle them as you would a lady. Wouldn't you agree with me, Druot? 538 01:10:01,841 --> 01:10:03,009 If you say so, Madame. 539 01:10:06,304 --> 01:10:08,556 You. Check the jonquil blossoms. 540 01:10:12,602 --> 01:10:13,686 They need more time. 541 01:10:16,814 --> 01:10:18,065 Do what I say! 542 01:11:02,735 --> 01:11:03,611 Stop it! 543 01:11:05,029 --> 01:11:05,863 I'm not in the mood. 544 01:11:06,572 --> 01:11:07,448 Are you sure? 545 01:11:08,908 --> 01:11:10,284 Of course I'm sure. 546 01:11:17,208 --> 01:11:18,417 I said... 547 01:11:21,420 --> 01:11:22,380 ...no! 548 01:11:34,100 --> 01:11:35,184 Suit yourself 549 01:11:39,021 --> 01:11:39,689 Lucien? 550 01:11:43,943 --> 01:11:45,236 Fetch me back the ladder. 551 01:11:45,486 --> 01:11:46,571 Fetch it yourself. 552 01:11:58,875 --> 01:11:59,500 Lucien? 553 01:12:03,462 --> 01:12:04,297 Lucien! 554 01:12:15,808 --> 01:12:16,434 Lucien? 555 01:12:20,229 --> 01:12:20,855 Lucien? 556 01:12:40,416 --> 01:12:41,042 Lucien? 557 01:13:39,350 --> 01:13:43,229 Tuberoses for Madame Arnulfi. She here? 558 01:13:47,191 --> 01:13:47,900 She's busy. 559 01:13:55,992 --> 01:13:57,785 Seems such a waste to boil them. 560 01:13:59,662 --> 01:14:01,205 Or whatever you do with them. 561 01:14:06,878 --> 01:14:08,379 So what do you do with them? 562 01:14:09,964 --> 01:14:11,841 Warm them in animal fat. 563 01:14:12,300 --> 01:14:15,887 - What for? - The fat soaks up their scent. 564 01:14:16,679 --> 01:14:17,555 Then what? 565 01:14:20,266 --> 01:14:22,476 Then I cool it to a pomade 566 01:14:24,645 --> 01:14:27,940 and then I filter it before... 567 01:14:32,653 --> 01:14:33,571 Before what? 568 01:14:34,906 --> 01:14:37,825 Before I add in alcohol and other essences to make a perfume. 569 01:14:37,992 --> 01:14:38,910 Don't touch anything. 570 01:14:45,166 --> 01:14:46,042 What's in there? 571 01:14:47,585 --> 01:14:48,419 Nothing. Just flowers. 572 01:14:49,921 --> 01:14:51,172 - Can I look? - No. 573 01:14:51,756 --> 01:14:53,007 Not now. I've got work to do. 574 01:14:53,299 --> 01:14:54,217 You must go now. 575 01:14:54,383 --> 01:14:56,719 - Come on. Let me look. - Don't touch. 576 01:14:56,886 --> 01:14:58,054 Ah, my tuberoses. 577 01:14:59,931 --> 01:15:01,224 Morning, Madame. 578 01:15:01,766 --> 01:15:02,475 Morning. 579 01:15:06,187 --> 01:15:08,022 Why have you covered the tank? 580 01:15:09,565 --> 01:15:10,983 It's an experiment, Madame. 581 01:15:14,278 --> 01:15:16,489 To protect the blossoms from daylight. 582 01:15:17,114 --> 01:15:18,783 To preserve the scent better. 583 01:15:20,117 --> 01:15:21,869 Well, if you say so. 584 01:15:23,788 --> 01:15:26,958 Come with me. I'll settle your master's account. 585 01:15:29,669 --> 01:15:32,088 To preserve their scent better, you say? 586 01:15:46,394 --> 01:15:47,687 I don't smell much. 587 01:15:54,318 --> 01:15:57,822 No. Then my experiment was a failure. 588 01:16:01,701 --> 01:16:04,745 Make sure it's your time you're wasting, not ours. 589 01:16:17,633 --> 01:16:18,926 How much must I pay 590 01:16:21,721 --> 01:16:22,930 to be with you? 591 01:16:23,848 --> 01:16:25,433 Depends what you want. 592 01:16:39,655 --> 01:16:40,364 What's that stuff? 593 01:16:44,660 --> 01:16:46,120 I'm creating a perfume. 594 01:16:49,665 --> 01:16:51,042 Lie down, please. 595 01:17:11,062 --> 01:17:12,188 It feels horrible. 596 01:17:13,814 --> 01:17:17,193 It's only animal fat. To soak up your scent. 597 01:17:18,152 --> 01:17:19,946 Creating a perfume, eh? 598 01:17:20,613 --> 01:17:23,908 Admit it. You're getting some sort of bang out of this. 599 01:17:24,909 --> 01:17:25,826 Aren't you? 600 01:17:27,078 --> 01:17:28,287 I enjoy my work. 601 01:17:30,414 --> 01:17:31,749 Hold your arm still. 602 01:17:40,299 --> 01:17:41,759 Don't think you're gonna tie me up. 603 01:17:43,302 --> 01:17:44,887 Hold out your arm, please. 604 01:17:53,020 --> 01:17:54,730 I've come across some strange men in my time... 605 01:17:54,981 --> 01:17:57,733 Just relax. 606 01:18:05,741 --> 01:18:07,702 Holy Mother, what's that?! 607 01:18:11,205 --> 01:18:12,832 Just for scraping off the fat. 608 01:18:13,165 --> 01:18:16,252 - Are you mad? - Relax. You'll ruin everything. 609 01:18:17,670 --> 01:18:21,299 If you're frightened, you stink. Then your perfume will be spoiled. 610 01:18:21,549 --> 01:18:23,092 I've had enough. 611 01:18:24,176 --> 01:18:26,679 Here, take your money. 612 01:18:27,722 --> 01:18:31,100 Basting me up in all this goo. You think I am a Christmas goose? 613 01:18:31,392 --> 01:18:32,602 Get out of here! 614 01:21:59,392 --> 01:22:02,728 Quickly, blow them out before the roses melt! 615 01:22:02,937 --> 01:22:05,231 - Roses can't melt, Papa! - These ones can. 616 01:22:20,454 --> 01:22:24,625 Now I'd like to propose a toast to our guest of honour, 617 01:22:24,876 --> 01:22:27,211 his Excellency, the Marquis de Montesquieu. 618 01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:30,590 May our trade continue to flourish! 619 01:22:36,012 --> 01:22:37,013 I thank you all 620 01:22:37,638 --> 01:22:40,391 and would ask of you the honour to be the first 621 01:22:40,558 --> 01:22:42,977 to offer my congratulations to your beautiful daughter 622 01:22:43,311 --> 01:22:46,147 and present her with a small token of my affection. 623 01:22:53,654 --> 01:22:54,488 It's beautiful. 624 01:23:12,423 --> 01:23:14,008 I'm overwhelmed, your Grace. 625 01:23:14,508 --> 01:23:15,384 "Your Grace"? 626 01:23:16,719 --> 01:23:20,014 I had hoped that we would be on more familiar terms by now. 627 01:23:23,392 --> 01:23:25,102 Let's have a game of hide-and-seek! 628 01:23:25,269 --> 01:23:27,855 Oh yes! But everyone must play! 629 01:23:30,107 --> 01:23:32,193 Let the men catch the women. 630 01:23:39,367 --> 01:23:40,868 Albine! Wait! 631 01:25:10,458 --> 01:25:12,752 Put me down. Please? 632 01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:19,467 Now there's no escape. 633 01:25:50,122 --> 01:25:51,958 Game's over, everybody. 634 01:25:54,335 --> 01:25:55,127 Laura? 635 01:25:57,213 --> 01:25:58,548 Time to go in now. 636 01:26:23,281 --> 01:26:24,115 Laura? 637 01:26:42,842 --> 01:26:45,344 Albine? Françoise? 638 01:26:51,100 --> 01:26:53,019 Laura, have you seen the twins? 639 01:26:53,936 --> 01:26:55,646 No, not since the game started. 640 01:26:58,524 --> 01:27:00,651 Albine? Françoise? 641 01:27:11,704 --> 01:27:13,831 Albine? Françoise? 642 01:27:13,998 --> 01:27:14,624 Jacques? 643 01:27:16,417 --> 01:27:17,460 Take this way. 644 01:27:18,252 --> 01:27:19,670 You two with me. 645 01:27:19,837 --> 01:27:23,424 Your Excellency? Through here. 646 01:27:28,638 --> 01:27:30,473 Albine! Françoise! 647 01:28:41,961 --> 01:28:45,089 I told that cretin ten times to get these ready! 648 01:28:45,423 --> 01:28:47,133 Don't keep picking on the boy. 649 01:28:48,426 --> 01:28:50,428 I'll kill him, the useless little sewer rat! 650 01:28:51,429 --> 01:28:52,221 Grenouille! 651 01:28:53,890 --> 01:28:55,224 What are you doing? 652 01:28:55,391 --> 01:28:57,476 Why aren't the enfleurage frames... 653 01:29:04,525 --> 01:29:05,234 Yes, master? 654 01:29:05,902 --> 01:29:09,989 I mean, would you be good enough to prepare the enfleurage frames? 655 01:29:14,076 --> 01:29:15,620 Certainly, master. 656 01:29:31,552 --> 01:29:32,929 Acurfew? 657 01:29:33,387 --> 01:29:34,805 Are you mad? 658 01:29:34,972 --> 01:29:38,017 Jasmine can only be picked before dawn. We all know that. 659 01:29:38,184 --> 01:29:40,978 This could mean the ruin of our trade. 660 01:29:41,270 --> 01:29:41,938 Yours. 661 01:29:42,980 --> 01:29:44,565 And yours and yours. 662 01:29:46,067 --> 01:29:48,194 Supposing it's your daughter next time. 663 01:29:50,238 --> 01:29:53,908 Of course a curfew is necessary, but we also have to catch this man 664 01:29:54,075 --> 01:29:58,246 and to do that is to understand how he thinks, what he wants. 665 01:29:58,412 --> 01:30:02,041 I should have thought that was obvious. Use your imagination. 666 01:30:02,250 --> 01:30:04,919 And if I were to tell you that all except the prostitute 667 01:30:05,086 --> 01:30:07,463 went to their graves with their chastity intact? 668 01:30:08,422 --> 01:30:09,549 How would you know? 669 01:30:09,799 --> 01:30:13,594 The coroner had each girl examined. They were all found to be virgins. 670 01:30:16,055 --> 01:30:18,099 Supposing there isn't a next time? 671 01:30:18,683 --> 01:30:22,353 If we introduce a curfew we may all go bankrupt for nothing. 672 01:30:24,814 --> 01:30:26,774 So we wait until he's killed, what? Six? 673 01:30:27,692 --> 01:30:29,193 Seven? Eight? 674 01:30:54,969 --> 01:30:57,471 Curfew! Go back to your homes! 675 01:31:12,486 --> 01:31:13,613 Gentlemen! 676 01:31:14,030 --> 01:31:14,822 Gentlemen! 677 01:31:15,948 --> 01:31:19,911 We have to face the fact that our police are helpless in this matter. 678 01:31:20,244 --> 01:31:22,914 I suggest that we ask for support from Paris. 679 01:31:23,206 --> 01:31:24,999 Paris won't be smarter than we are. 680 01:31:25,499 --> 01:31:26,918 We must arrest every Gypsy in Provence. And every beggar. 681 01:31:27,376 --> 01:31:29,128 And every man without a wife and family! 682 01:31:29,378 --> 01:31:30,213 Listen. 683 01:31:32,924 --> 01:31:37,011 We have to put ourselves inside the mind of this man. 684 01:31:37,595 --> 01:31:41,724 Each of his victims had an especial beauty. 685 01:31:41,974 --> 01:31:46,062 We know he doesn't want their virginity, so it seems to me 686 01:31:46,229 --> 01:31:48,940 that it's their beauty itself that he wants. 687 01:31:49,190 --> 01:31:51,859 It's almost as if he's trying to gather something. 688 01:31:52,235 --> 01:31:55,655 As if his ambitions are those of a collector. 689 01:31:56,572 --> 01:31:58,449 A collector? Of what? 690 01:31:59,700 --> 01:32:00,493 Their hair? 691 01:32:07,708 --> 01:32:11,879 Whatever it is, I fear he won't stop killing 692 01:32:12,171 --> 01:32:15,049 until his collection is complete. 693 01:32:40,616 --> 01:32:41,325 Monsieur. 694 01:32:44,537 --> 01:32:48,499 This man is a demon. 695 01:32:48,749 --> 01:32:51,794 A phantom who cannot be fought by human means. 696 01:32:51,961 --> 01:32:56,007 Now, I insist that we call upon our bishop to excommunicate him! 697 01:32:57,383 --> 01:32:59,051 What good would that do? 698 01:32:59,468 --> 01:33:02,722 Have you no faith in the power of our Holy Mother Church? 699 01:33:04,515 --> 01:33:06,058 This is not a matter of faith. 700 01:33:06,350 --> 01:33:07,810 There's a murderer out there 701 01:33:08,019 --> 01:33:11,480 and we must catch him by using our God-given wits! 702 01:33:12,273 --> 01:33:15,151 I say until we submit to Mother Church 703 01:33:16,027 --> 01:33:17,987 these killings will not cease. 704 01:33:34,921 --> 01:33:39,091 Citizens of Grasse, we hereby declare that this murderer, 705 01:33:40,134 --> 01:33:42,386 this demon in our midst, 706 01:33:42,970 --> 01:33:47,058 has incurred the sentence of excommunication. 707 01:33:48,935 --> 01:33:51,938 Not only has this depraved monster 708 01:33:52,355 --> 01:33:54,857 robbed us of our daughters, 709 01:33:55,233 --> 01:33:57,944 the young and fair blossom of this city, 710 01:33:58,277 --> 01:34:00,112 and by his wanton acts 711 01:34:00,696 --> 01:34:04,158 has brought our trade, our livelihood, 712 01:34:04,325 --> 01:34:07,036 our very existence, 713 01:34:07,411 --> 01:34:10,331 to the brink of eternal darkness. 714 01:34:12,542 --> 01:34:13,793 We therefore declare 715 01:34:14,627 --> 01:34:16,629 that this vile viper, 716 01:34:16,796 --> 01:34:20,216 this ignominious carbuncle, 717 01:34:20,383 --> 01:34:23,511 this execrable evil in our midst, 718 01:34:23,678 --> 01:34:27,848 shall henceforth be solemnly banned from our holy presence, 719 01:34:29,267 --> 01:34:33,396 rejected from the communion of Holy Mother Church 720 01:34:34,021 --> 01:34:36,357 as a disciple of Satan, 721 01:34:37,692 --> 01:34:39,902 slayer of souls. 722 01:34:40,069 --> 01:34:40,778 Stand clear! 723 01:34:41,445 --> 01:34:45,074 An infected limb, an outsider of the faith 724 01:34:46,450 --> 01:34:49,996 a necromancer, a diabolist, a sorcerer 725 01:34:50,621 --> 01:34:52,915 and a damned heretic. 726 01:34:54,584 --> 01:34:57,879 Oh, God, in Thy most merciful spirit, 727 01:34:59,130 --> 01:35:02,049 bring down thunderbolts upon his head 728 01:35:02,884 --> 01:35:06,596 and may the Devil make soup of his bones. 729 01:35:06,929 --> 01:35:08,097 Amen. 730 01:35:09,265 --> 01:35:11,475 My Lord! It's a miracle! 731 01:35:12,602 --> 01:35:14,478 He's been caught! He's been caught! 732 01:35:16,522 --> 01:35:19,358 My Lord, the fiend has been caught. 733 01:35:20,151 --> 01:35:21,861 In the city of Grenoble. 734 01:35:22,028 --> 01:35:23,529 He's confessed to everything. 735 01:35:24,155 --> 01:35:26,157 He's confessed to everything! 736 01:35:28,367 --> 01:35:29,493 Hallelujah! 737 01:35:29,660 --> 01:35:31,996 Hallelujah! 738 01:35:32,955 --> 01:35:34,415 Praise be to God! 739 01:35:34,916 --> 01:35:36,584 And we thank Him 740 01:35:36,751 --> 01:35:40,254 for listening to our prayers and answering them. 741 01:35:41,130 --> 01:35:43,966 Amen. 742 01:35:44,592 --> 01:35:46,761 Amen. 743 01:36:02,902 --> 01:36:04,612 Just read the report. 744 01:36:04,779 --> 01:36:06,739 This cannot possibly be the same man. 745 01:36:09,992 --> 01:36:14,163 He confessed to everything. Including the murders in Grasse. 746 01:36:14,330 --> 01:36:16,624 Yes. Under torture. 747 01:36:18,209 --> 01:36:19,043 Look. Here. 748 01:36:20,336 --> 01:36:23,005 He admits to strangling his victims, 749 01:36:23,172 --> 01:36:25,883 pulling out their hair and ravaging them. 750 01:36:26,050 --> 01:36:29,178 The Grasse girls were killed by a blow to the back of their heads 751 01:36:29,345 --> 01:36:32,515 their hair was carefully cropped, and not one of them was violated. 752 01:36:32,682 --> 01:36:33,307 Antoine, 753 01:36:35,059 --> 01:36:37,478 we're all happy it's over. 754 01:36:38,437 --> 01:36:39,230 Let it go. 755 01:37:27,236 --> 01:37:30,114 - Papa, what's the matter? - We're going home. Now! 756 01:37:30,281 --> 01:37:31,699 But why? I'm enjoying myself. 757 01:37:31,866 --> 01:37:34,994 - Don't argue with me, Laura. - Stop it! I'm going... 758 01:37:42,752 --> 01:37:43,377 Laura! 759 01:37:45,129 --> 01:37:45,963 Laura! 760 01:37:49,508 --> 01:37:50,843 Out of my way! 761 01:37:51,552 --> 01:37:52,178 Laura! 762 01:38:49,360 --> 01:38:50,236 Laura! 763 01:38:51,529 --> 01:38:52,280 Papa! 764 01:38:58,703 --> 01:38:59,912 I'm so sorry. 765 01:39:13,843 --> 01:39:16,637 I know you must think me a very foolish man, 766 01:39:17,972 --> 01:39:19,932 but try to understand 767 01:39:21,017 --> 01:39:22,518 you're all I have left. 768 01:39:22,685 --> 01:39:24,562 You don't need to explain, Papa. 769 01:39:24,729 --> 01:39:27,523 - If anything were to happen to you... - I know. 770 01:39:28,316 --> 01:39:31,360 But you must stop worrying about me all the time. 771 01:39:52,131 --> 01:39:53,716 Sweet dreams, my love. 772 01:39:57,887 --> 01:39:59,472 Sweet dreams, Papa. 773 01:40:59,574 --> 01:41:00,658 Laura! 774 01:41:11,460 --> 01:41:13,754 Papa, what's the matter? 775 01:41:18,634 --> 01:41:19,844 Did you open the window? 776 01:41:22,179 --> 01:41:22,805 No. 777 01:41:23,514 --> 01:41:24,348 Why? 778 01:41:27,727 --> 01:41:31,814 Have this letter dispatched to the Marquis de Montesquieu immediately. 779 01:42:20,905 --> 01:42:23,324 Stay on the road north into the mountains. 780 01:42:41,425 --> 01:42:43,135 Did Monsieur Richis leave? 781 01:42:43,302 --> 01:42:43,928 He did. 782 01:42:44,345 --> 01:42:45,137 Which way? 783 01:42:46,597 --> 01:42:47,431 North. 784 01:42:54,438 --> 01:42:56,107 You sure it wasn't south? 785 01:42:56,274 --> 01:42:59,819 I saw them with my own eyes. Why do you want to know? 786 01:43:01,571 --> 01:43:04,156 I said north. North! 787 01:43:06,576 --> 01:43:07,451 Grenouille! 788 01:43:10,037 --> 01:43:10,913 Grenouille! 789 01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:14,876 Grenouille! 790 01:43:25,636 --> 01:43:26,554 Grenouille! 791 01:43:43,529 --> 01:43:44,280 Good God! 792 01:44:41,212 --> 01:44:42,630 Good afternoon, Monsieur. 793 01:44:43,339 --> 01:44:46,008 Good afternoon. Do you have anyone else staying here? 794 01:44:46,634 --> 01:44:47,385 No, Monsieur. 795 01:44:47,969 --> 01:44:50,388 Then I would like to take all your rooms for the night. 796 01:44:50,555 --> 01:44:52,723 It will be our pleasure, Monsieur. 797 01:44:54,183 --> 01:44:57,770 And tomorrow, at first light, we wish to be ferried to the lle de Lérin. 798 01:44:58,521 --> 01:45:01,983 - It's deserted, just a few monks. - I'm aware of that. 799 01:45:02,942 --> 01:45:03,651 Very well, Monsieur. 800 01:45:08,781 --> 01:45:10,408 Our finest room, Mademoiselle. 801 01:45:13,619 --> 01:45:15,288 With a superb view of the sea. 802 01:45:16,289 --> 01:45:17,081 One moment. 803 01:45:23,838 --> 01:45:24,463 Very well. 804 01:45:25,965 --> 01:45:28,593 Do you have a room next to this one? 805 01:45:28,759 --> 01:45:32,847 - Yes, but the view is different. - I have no interest in the view. 806 01:46:26,442 --> 01:46:29,987 Papa, will you please tell me now what is happening? 807 01:46:30,947 --> 01:46:33,115 You haven't said a word all day. 808 01:46:33,699 --> 01:46:35,535 Why all this secrecy? 809 01:46:39,705 --> 01:46:41,541 Last night I dreamt you were dead, 810 01:46:43,084 --> 01:46:45,294 murdered like all the other girls. 811 01:46:54,887 --> 01:46:58,099 The truth is, I'm convinced that the killer is still here somewhere. 812 01:46:59,934 --> 01:47:02,228 All of his victims were young and beautiful, 813 01:47:02,395 --> 01:47:04,272 and who is there more beautiful than you, Laura? 814 01:47:06,399 --> 01:47:08,109 Whatever his insane scheme, 815 01:47:08,359 --> 01:47:11,195 it will surely be incomplete without you. 816 01:47:20,079 --> 01:47:23,207 I wrote to the Marquis accepting his proposal of marriage 817 01:47:23,416 --> 01:47:26,294 and requesting that it take place as soon as possible. 818 01:47:27,837 --> 01:47:30,965 Until then you will stay in the safety of the monastery. 819 01:47:32,675 --> 01:47:35,678 And all this because you had a bad dream? 820 01:47:36,053 --> 01:47:39,265 - I've made my decision. - But I don't know if I love him! 821 01:47:39,682 --> 01:47:41,934 I'm afraid the circumstances leave us no choice. 822 01:47:42,101 --> 01:47:44,187 - Papa! - It's all arranged, Laura. 823 01:53:34,537 --> 01:53:36,956 On your feet. Hands in the air! 824 01:54:23,211 --> 01:54:25,713 Why did you kill my daughter? 825 01:54:29,842 --> 01:54:30,593 Why? 826 01:54:34,472 --> 01:54:35,473 I needed her. 827 01:55:02,250 --> 01:55:04,669 Why did you kill my daughter? 828 01:55:08,965 --> 01:55:09,924 I just... 829 01:55:13,386 --> 01:55:14,512 needed her. 830 01:55:22,770 --> 01:55:23,813 Very well. 831 01:55:26,065 --> 01:55:28,401 But remember this. 832 01:55:34,907 --> 01:55:36,450 I will be looking at you 833 01:55:39,495 --> 01:55:41,247 when you are laid on the cross 834 01:55:41,414 --> 01:55:45,376 and the twelve blows are crashing down on your limbs. 835 01:55:48,129 --> 01:55:51,757 And when the crowd has finally tired 836 01:55:51,924 --> 01:55:54,677 of your screams and wandered home, 837 01:55:54,927 --> 01:55:58,514 I will climb up through your blood 838 01:56:01,142 --> 01:56:02,935 and sit beside you. 839 01:56:05,062 --> 01:56:07,982 I will look deep into your eyes 840 01:56:10,109 --> 01:56:12,278 and drop by drop 841 01:56:14,906 --> 01:56:18,659 I will trickle my disgust into them 842 01:56:20,661 --> 01:56:23,497 like burning acid, 843 01:56:25,333 --> 01:56:26,626 until 844 01:56:30,296 --> 01:56:31,589 finally 845 01:56:35,635 --> 01:56:36,928 you perish. 846 01:58:37,632 --> 01:58:39,592 Unchain the prisoner. 847 01:58:50,728 --> 01:58:52,146 That's enough. 848 01:58:53,731 --> 01:58:55,608 Let him be brought to the scaffold. 849 01:59:00,821 --> 01:59:01,739 What's that? 850 02:00:15,980 --> 02:00:17,356 He's over there. 851 02:02:07,925 --> 02:02:10,553 This man is innocent! 852 02:02:15,975 --> 02:02:17,476 He is innocent! 853 02:03:41,644 --> 02:03:42,270 An angel! 854 02:03:43,604 --> 02:03:44,605 This is no man! 855 02:03:45,481 --> 02:03:47,066 This is an angel! 856 02:09:48,970 --> 02:09:49,971 Grenouille! 857 02:09:56,269 --> 02:09:58,354 You can't fool me! 858 02:10:47,403 --> 02:10:48,321 Forgive me, 859 02:10:55,620 --> 02:10:56,704 my son. 860 02:12:00,059 --> 02:12:04,063 The people of Grasse awoke to a terrible hangover. 861 02:12:05,565 --> 02:12:08,985 For many of them, the experience was so ghastly, 862 02:12:09,151 --> 02:12:12,780 so completely inexplicable and incompatible with their morals 863 02:12:13,573 --> 02:12:16,576 that they literally erased it from their memories. 864 02:12:17,702 --> 02:12:20,621 The town council was in session by the afternoon 865 02:12:20,788 --> 02:12:23,082 and an order was passed to the police lieutenant 866 02:12:23,249 --> 02:12:26,878 to immediately begin fresh investigations into the murders. 867 02:12:28,379 --> 02:12:31,257 The following day, Dominique Druot was arrested. 868 02:12:31,424 --> 02:12:35,595 It was in his back yard that they found the hair of the victims. 869 02:12:36,929 --> 02:12:40,516 After fourteen hours of torture, Druot confessed to everything. 870 02:12:43,436 --> 02:12:45,855 With that, the case was closed. 871 02:12:50,109 --> 02:12:54,071 By then, Grenouille was already half way back to Paris. 872 02:12:58,159 --> 02:13:02,330 He had enough perfume left to enslave the world if he so chose. 873 02:13:03,206 --> 02:13:06,417 He could walk to Versailles and have the King kiss his feet. 874 02:13:06,876 --> 02:13:11,047 He could write the Pope a letter, reveal himself as the new Messiah. 875 02:13:12,173 --> 02:13:14,675 He could do all this and more if he wanted to. 876 02:13:15,843 --> 02:13:18,721 He possessed a power stronger than the power of money, 877 02:13:18,888 --> 02:13:20,681 or terror, or death. 878 02:13:21,349 --> 02:13:25,353 The invincible power to command the love of mankind. 879 02:13:31,984 --> 02:13:35,071 There was only one thing the perfume could not do: 880 02:13:35,321 --> 02:13:38,074 It could not turn him into a person 881 02:13:38,241 --> 02:13:40,451 who could love and be loved like everyone else. 882 02:13:41,827 --> 02:13:44,288 So, to hell with it, he thought. 883 02:13:44,455 --> 02:13:46,040 To hell with the world, 884 02:13:46,332 --> 02:13:47,667 with the perfume, 885 02:13:48,042 --> 02:13:49,377 with himself. 886 02:13:52,171 --> 02:13:55,341 On the 25th of June, 1766, 887 02:13:55,716 --> 02:13:57,385 around 11 o'clock at night, 888 02:13:58,010 --> 02:14:01,305 Grenouille entered the city through the Port d'Orleans 889 02:14:01,472 --> 02:14:03,307 and like a sleep-walker, 890 02:14:03,808 --> 02:14:07,979 his olfactory memories drew him back to where he was born. 891 02:15:30,770 --> 02:15:32,313 An angel! 892 02:15:35,107 --> 02:15:36,484 I love you! 893 02:16:24,156 --> 02:16:27,201 Within no time, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille 894 02:16:27,368 --> 02:16:29,745 had disappeared from the face of the earth. 895 02:16:30,913 --> 02:16:35,084 When they had finished, they felt a virginal glow of happiness. 896 02:16:36,544 --> 02:16:38,671 Forthe first time in their lives 897 02:16:39,338 --> 02:16:41,424 they believed that they had done something 898 02:16:42,175 --> 02:16:45,011 purely out of love. 899 02:17:17,084 --> 02:17:19,420 - Ey, over here! - Look! 900 02:17:27,136 --> 02:17:28,387 Look, a jacket! 901 02:17:29,055 --> 02:17:30,598 Let's take them all home.