I think it's an interesting concept. Frankly, it's remarkably hard to express the intricacies of scent in an exclusively audio-visual medium. A movie can only give you sight and sound...and everything that's smelled just has to be imagined. Interestingly, the producers decided that the film would have a voiceover narration to explain what the protagonist smelled. It's a nice substitute for the Noir-style monologues. Soliloquies are really rather trite by now.
However, the film was plagued by a script that just seemed to have been cobbled together. Our dear protagonist appears to be a total jinx, causing unfortunate (and invariably fatal) accidents to whomever he is being owned or hired by. The fresh take on a difficult subject matter was also utterly destroyed by a horribly overdone and drawn-out ending. The dramatization served more to disturb (or fascinate) the viewer instead of showing how the introduction and finale have come full circle.
Overall, I’d say it was a film that had a unique selling point that just couldn’t be brought to an elegant end. Hence, I’d say that the film gets 6/10.
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