[1] 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 investigators Nadja Simon and Matthias Köhler and prosecutor Grünberg, with whom Nadja has an affair, encounter five former boarding school students who know the victim from their school days and experimented with human scents back then, inspired by the novel Perfume.

In addition, the unresolved case of a missing boy comes into focus.

He is not ready to leave his wife, and he wants her to obtain an abortion.