The Scent of Green Papaya (Vietnamese: Mùi đu đủ xanh, French: L'Odeur de la papaye verte) is a 1993 Vietnamese-language French drama film written and directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, and starring Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, and Thi Loc Truong.

It is also his first collaboration with Vietnamese composer Tôn-Thât Tiêt who subsequently wrote the music for two more films: Cyclo and Vertical Ray of the Sun.

A young girl, Mùi, becomes a servant for a family in pre-unification (1951) Saigon that was once wealthy but is sinking into genteel poverty due to the husband's infidelities and spending sprees.

The husband's widowed mother, an invalid who seldom leaves her upstairs room, blames her daughter-in-law, telling her, "You have a man, but you don't know how to keep him happy."

When the husband leaves for his fourth and final time, he steals his wife's meagre savings and jewelry.

When the fiancée learns of this, she furiously slaps Mùi, smashes some of his belongings, and then leaves her engagement ring on a table.

Tran traveled to Vietnam for the first time in 16 years while the film was being prepared, making several trips to Ho Chi Minh City with his French producer Christophe Rossington.