7.754 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestWhen 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.
When a singer is found murdered, with her scent glands excised from her body, detectives probe a group of friends who attended boarding school with her.
Direction
Philipp Kadelbach turns perfume into genuine visual horror
Acting
August Diehl's dead-eyed intensity as the creepy perfumer
Sound
Sound design makes you smell things that aren't there
Creators
Oliver Berben, Philipp Kadelbach, Eva Kranenburg
Friederike Becht
Profilerin Nadja Simon
Wotan Wilke Möhring
Staatsanwalt Grünberg
Juergen Maurer
Kriminalhauptkommissar Matthias Köhler
Ken Duken
Roman Seliger
Natalia Belitski
Elena Seliger
August Diehl
Moritz de Vries
Trystan Pütter
Thomas Butsche
Christian Friedel
Daniel 'Zahnlos' Sluiter
Franziska Brandmeier
Katharina (jung)
Marc Hosemann
Jens Brettschneider
Oskar Belton
Roman (jung)
Valerie Stoll
Elena (jung)
Leon Blaschke
Moritz (jung)
Julius Nitschkoff
Butsche (jung)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Patrick Süskind's 1985 novel, previously adapted by Tom Tykwer in 2006 — this version ditches the 18th-century setting for modern German grime.
The show uses actual perfumers as consultants; every scent description is chemically accurate, making the horror unnervingly grounded in reality.
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