History YMMV / Perfume

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: You'd be forgiven for asking this question, especially in regard to the climax.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In a strange way, [[spoiler:the orgy scene]] at the end is this. Despite being [[spoiler:an orgy, there is no perverted focus, it is entirely about the crowd's enthralled faces as they lovingly embrace and make love to each other regardless of gender, race and age,]] turning the entire scene into a beautiful (if bizarre) cinematic moment. Topped of by the soundtrack accompanying the scene, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bicZnzCLFU4 "The Crowd Embrace".]]

* HollywoodHomely:
** Grenouille is a disheveled, scarred, filthy, bone-thin, and socially inept man, but he's played by the dashing Ben Whishaw. It's questionable whether this is also an example of AdaptationalAttractiveness, since the character is clearly ''supposed'' to be unattractive.
** An awful lot of the main film cast are downright gorgeous, considering the time period - most of them still with their hair and teeth and fairly good skin. The [[spoiler:massive orgy]] scene towards the end is a good example of this.

** Nocchi and [[EverythingsBetterWithLlamas alpacas]].[[note]] In an interview, she freely admitted to wanting to go to an alpaca park and befriend them all.[[/note]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The musical score which Tom Tykwer did himself along with Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek. Examples include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOJ6diXGMPE "Prologue"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2K-pkUjGyU "The Crowd Embrace"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC9YGlIb_Sc "Moorish Scents"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfOD8lVgSDM "Lost Love".]]

** Before "Polyrhythm", Perfume was a quirky Shibuya-kei-inspired technopop group (to the point where equally next-level single "Electro World" only made a minor dent in the singles charts). As one NHK documentary put it, "the reason why they are now facing a crowd of 50,000 is because of this hit song." And it shows.

** In the book its mentioned how much the townspeople banded together (after initial prejudices were found faulty) to protect one another from the murderer in their midst. From local guards being set up, to even landowner farmers bringing their migrant workers into the barns at night to keep them safe when normally they're content letting them sleep outside in the fields. In such a CrapsackWorld as Paris is described in the book, such a display of concern for each other is a nice change.