Constantin's TV version will take the book's core ideas of a scent-obsessed serial killer and the use of smell to control emotions but will shift the action to present-day Germany. It will be set in an international boarding school where young women begin turning up dead, murdered in a way eerily similar to the manner described in Suskind's book.

— Constantin Film is planning a German TV adaptation of Patrick Süskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (they are the same production company that made the 2006 film). Read more at Hollywood Reporter.