Factual error: The hanging is shown using the "standard drop", with a trapdoor, breaking the neck. This was not introduced until the 19th century (after France had abandoned the gallows for the guillotine), whereas the film is set in the 18th century. In those days the victim was just strung up on the gallows and left to strangulate (the "short drop").
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Ben Whishaw, Francesc Albiol, Gonzalo Cunill, Roger Salvany
Jean-Baptiste Grenoble manages to break into Antoine Richis' home and completes his collection with Laura. As he finishes perfecting his formula, just as he's caught. On the day of his execution, he uses his perfume on himself, to cause the entire towns population to go into a mass erotic orgy, allowing him in all the confusion to flee. He then empties the contents of his entire concoction all over himself and is ripped to shreds by a frenzied mob.
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