Perfume is a wonderful example of a film, where every part is almost perfect. The director Tom Tykwer has a very good grip on the story and the characters, and all the actors are doing their job as good as one could ever ask for. Camera, lights... everything is in it's place. Even the script works, but the problem comes also from the fact that the script has been economized a little too much. By economy I mean the thing you have to do to fit a 300-page novel to a 2-hour script. Tykwer did the right thing when he decided to take the time to build the story up, and slide every element slowly and beautifully to it's place. This meant that the latter part of the film had elements that suffered because of the suddenly much faster pace that had to be taken to get everything together. But that wasn't a big flaw, you really could enjoy the whole package pretty well. Visually, the film was outstanding, although some of the CGI scenes didn't quite fit to the overall look and feel. What I admired about the direction and the actors and the camera as well was the constant beautiful physical motion everything was all the time - characters leaning on a sofa, walking on the street, agile camera moving poetically through the scenes. Wonderful.
To sum it up, The Perfume was a good film.