Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Suskind

Film

• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, co-written and directed by Tom Tykwer (who also composed the score), premiered in Germany on 14 September 2006.
• The Perfumier, was released for streaming on Netflix on 21 September 2022.[17]

Television

• The episode "Sense Memory" (2011) of the American television show Criminal Minds bears many similarities to the novel.
• A six-part 2018 German television series, Perfume (Parfum), inspired by the novel and the film but set in the present day, stars Friederike Becht, Juergen Maurer, Wotan Wilke Möhring, and Christian Friedel.

Music

• A Russian musical adaptation of the novel, Perfumer, premiered on 5 December 2010 in Moscow. Composer and singer Igor Demarin received Süskind's approval after communicating with a representative of Süskind for two years.[18]
• The song "Scentless Apprentice" by the American grunge band Nirvana, from their 1993 album In Utero, was inspired by the novel Perfume. In an interview, lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain described the novel as one of his favourite books, which he re-read ten times and kept near him.[19]
• The song "Herr Spiegelmann" from the Portuguese gothic-doom metal band Moonspell at Napalm records contains an excerpt from the book.
• The song "Red Head Girl" by French downtempo duo Air is inspired by Perfume.
• The song "Du riechst so gut" (German for "You smell so good") by Rammstein was inspired by the novel, which is one of lead singer Till Lindemann's favourite books.
• Marilyn Manson credits the novel as one of the inspirations behind the title of his second album, Smells Like Children.
• The song "Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met)" by Panic! at the Disco is inspired by Perfume.
• The song "향 (Scentist)" by K-pop boy group VIXX and its music video are based on the novel.
• Perfume Genius' stage name was inspired by Tom Tykwer's film adaptation.

Sport

• Russian figure skater Anna Shcherbakova performs her season short program[20] to excerpts from the film's score while portraying the 'leitmotiv' from the book: "defenselessness, the doom of beauty in the face of senseless cruelty". Her routine was staged by noted choreographer Daniil Gleikhengauz.[21]