Watch the original trailer for the 2006 cinematic adaptation:

It highlights Grenouille's (Ben Whishaw) transition from a lowly tanner's apprentice to an apprentice under master perfumer Giuseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman).

The trailer for the 2006 film, directed by Tom Tykwer, introduces us to Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a man born with a superhuman sense of smell but no personal scent of his own.

The trailer shifts from the beauty of flower petals and essential oils to a dark quest to capture the "ultimate" scent—the essence of young womanhood—leading to a series of gruesome murders.