The emperor of a city in China has been longing
for a daughter, after having fifteen sons over the
course of fifteen years. His wife goes into labor
and gives birth to the long-awaited princess.
Everyone in the palace is over the moon until
the head nurse passes out. It turns out the new
princess has a disgustingly pungent body
odor that can make people unconscious.
The king is informed about a fainting
epidemic where fifteen nannies,
five nurses, and two guards have passed out
because they could smell the newborn. The head
doctor of the palace reveals that the princess
suffers from severe atypical reeking syndrome
causing excessive emission of body odor.
Unfortunately, a cure to this problem hasn’t
been developed yet but the doctor is confident
he will cure the princess in a few days.
Until then, they have to wear masks to take care
of her. A week goes by but with no progress in
finding the cure. Sometimes, her smell passes
through the mask and makes everyone nauseous.
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For the welfare of the entire palace, the
king orders the princess to be taken to
the riverside residence, away from everyone.
Time passes, and the princess grows up to become
a beautiful young girl but her body odor remains
the same. She has tried different kinds of baths,
medicines, and soaps but nothing helped. At
this point in her life, she has accepted her
fate as the stinking queen but is worried that she
will remain unmarried because of the disease.
Her parents are equally worried for her and
are constantly looking for a suitable man
who will accept her despite her smell. One
day, they arrange a matchmaking ceremony
where a bunch of men will be invited
for the princess to choose among.
The maids bathe her in flowers and fragrance
even though they do nothing to help with the
odor. To suppress the smell, she is made
to wear clothes that cover her entire body.
But when in front of the candidates, the princess
sneezes, making everyone able to smell her.
Some men vomit, others faint, and the surviving
ones run away by jumping into the pond. When the
king stops a guy, he stabs himself because he
would rather die than have a smelly wife.
The event shakes the princess’s
confidence and she starts hating
herself as much as others hate her smell.
After that, we are introduced to a florist named
Kai. He is best known for creating fragrant
flowery perfumes for the ladies of the town.
Kai’s biggest wish in life is to
be the ambassador of aromatherapy
and cure diseases using his skills.
One afternoon, he sees a poster issued
by the palace saying that anyone who cures
the princess’s disease will get to marry
her and become the royal consort. Kai doesn’t
really care about marrying the princess but he
is eager to prove that aromatherapy works and
he believes that his flowers can cure her.
We see that he has a plethora of flowers growing
at his house including a special one called stinky
weed, which smells really bad. Even though
most people would find the plant repulsive,
Kai loves it as much as the rest.
Then comes the day of the competition where
six selected candidates have to make three smelly
objects odor-free. They get to work immediately,
some using magic, others using chemicals,
while Kai uses his homemade fragrance.
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After a rough battle, only Kai and a young doctor
named Yei are able to complete the task. They are
given three months to create a formula or a
technique that will cure the princess.
If Kai is successful, the palace doctor will be
humiliated so he wants his junior Yei to win.
He tries his best to discredit Kai’s abilities
because he was born in a lower-class family.
However, the king allows him to participate,
disregarding the royal doctor’s suggestion.
For the next few days, Kai works hard
to create the most fragrant soap he has
ever made. To look for subjects he can
test it on, he goes to the fish market.
To his surprise, a woman falls on him
while trying to lift a heavy fish.
She is none other than the princess who has
disguised herself as a fisherwoman named Heung.
She blames her smell on the fish so
people won’t think she is weird.
Upon finding out that he is
here looking for smelly people,
the princess convinces her fishermen friends to
help him. They come to his house where they are
made to shower for about an hour using the
soap on every corner of their bodies.
Kai smells them afterward and passes out because
the soap didn’t work at all. After the fishermen
leave, Heung offers to be his test subject for
free. An excited Kai performs steam therapy,
green water therapy, mummy wrap bath, and
other techniques on her but nothing works
to cure the gut-wrenching smell of her body.
Meanwhile, Kai’s competitor Yei is working with
the royal doctor. He wants to make sure that Kai
doesn’t win because it will ruin the reputation
of the entire royal medical association.
They are willing to go to any lengths to
prevent Kai from finding the cure.
The next day, Kai and Heung continue
the experiments. Kai notices that the smell
of his stinky weed powder has vanished for
some reason. He dismisses it as a mistake
and continues working on other powders.
When it is time for Heung to leave, it starts to
rain heavily. She stays with him for the night
and Kai is shocked to see that Heung sleeps with
her smelly clothes and shoes on. In reality,
the clothes confide her smell to some extent
which is why she never takes them off.
The following morning, they go to the forest to
pick up some wildflowers. It starts raining again
and they have to take shelter under Kai’s jacket.
Being this close to Heung, he can smell the awful
scent on her and expresses his disgust.
She had started to like him more than a friend,
hence the comment breaks her heart. A confused
Kai watches as she runs away in anger.
Sometime later, Kai returns home to
see all his flowers have been destroyed
except the stinky weed. Seeking comfort, he goes
to meet Heung and finds her dancing alone.
Still angry, she hits him with stones, refusing
to believe that his house was trashed. Kai drinks
for the rest of the night and falls down in the
middle of the street. This is when he sees women
sweating and comes up with an idea.
He wants to create medicine from women’s
sweat since it might suppress the
order with its own smell. That way,
one can just take a shower and remove the sweat
medicine and their body would be odorless.
Kai asks for help from the fishermen and they
agree after Heung convinces them. For the
next hour, they make a group of women dance
continuously and collect their sweat. Then,
Kai works the entire night and creates the magical
potion. But just when it is ready, a masked
burglar attacks him and breaks the vial.
Kai chases the man and ends up in Yei’s house.
The doctor claims that he never went out of
the house and since Kai doesn’t have any proof,
he can do nothing.
There is an entire group
of scientists working with Yei which shakes Kai’s
spirit especially now that his work is ruined.
In the following scene, he is alone in his home
when Heung arrives with a bucket full of sweat
so he can continue the experiment. The gesture
touches Kai’s heart and he asks her to stay
the night. Heung sings him a beautiful song
that calms his nerves and helps him focus.
A few days later, Kai completes the formula and
sprays it on the fishermen to see if it works.
He wants to test it on Heung as well
but she pretends to be allergic to
sweat so her true identity isn’t revealed.
The potion works perfectly on men and makes them
smell better. Even though it is not a permanent
solution, Kai is happy to have made progress.
Still, they have to use it on a woman to
see if it’ll work on the princess too.
At night, the group goes into the palace to meet
the only smelly woman in the town other than the
princess. She is the royal doctor’s wife known
for her smelly farts. The group hides outside
the toilet and uses the formula on her, only to
discover the solution doesn’t work on women.
For the next few days, Kai works day and night,
disregarding his health. Heung finds him bleeding
out his nose because he is sniffing too many
times. She forces him to take a rest for the
night even though Kai is not a fan of the idea.
The next morning, he goes to the woods and comes
across an old couple burying flowers in
the ground. They reveal that they like
to give dead flowers a proper burial.
The couple turns out to be botanists with
vast knowledge about different kinds of
vegetation. When asked what are the most
fragrant flowers of all time, they name four
flowers that grow in four different seasons.
The couple leaves shortly after but this gives
Kai a brilliant idea that will definitely work
as a cure. He tells Heung that he has
to travel around China to collect four
seasonal flowers. She offers to join him and
the two set off for a month-long journey to
places with different climatic conditions.
They bond while traveling and return home after
a successful trip. By now, they only have a week
before the three-month experiment period ends.
Kai gets sick, so Heung uses his
diary to make the formula for him.
Since Kai’s nose is stuffy, he cannot smell
her and they end up sharing a bed at night.
Eventually, the judgment day comes and Heung
allows him to cure the princess and marry her. Kai
doesn’t feel comfortable leaving her behind but
he has to prove that the aromatherapy works.
In the following scene, the competitors are in
front of the king and the princess is behind a
tent. Yei goes first and uses several pressure
points to try to make her odorless. However,
it disrupts her sense of smell and only she
cannot smell her odor. He promises to perform
the same procedure on every citizen so they
won’t smell her scent and she can be free.
The king remains unimpressed and asks
Kai to continue. The royal doctor tries
to intervene but Kai proves that he has
no sense of smell at all which is why
he is incompetent to make a judgment.
The king kicks the doctor out of the palace
for lying to him and pretending to be working
on a cure. Following that, the princess is
made to eat the tablet which actually cures
her disease and makes her smell great.
Everything goes well until she comes
out of the tent, revealing that the
medicine only worked for some time.
The king is about to execute Kai but
stops upon hearing the princess crying. When her
tear drops to the ground, Kai gets an epiphany.
He begs the king to give him one more day
so he can add something to the medicine.
Kai is granted twenty-four hours, hence, he
goes to meet Heung immediately. He recalls
the time that the powdered stinky weed lost
its scent because her tears had landed on it
the previous day. He thinks if her tears are
added to the medicine it will surely work.
To make Heung cry, Kai tells her that he knows
the smell isn’t coming from her clothes but from
her body. Heung reveals that she never had friends
when she was little and even her family disgraces
her, all because of the stupid disease.
One day, she jumped into the river to commit the
unthinkable and was saved by the fishermen. After
coming to life, she finally discovered that she
is not a diseased outsider when she is in the fish
market which is why she started living with them.
By the time she gets done telling the
story, she has collected enough tears.
Kai thanks her for her help but feels bad about
everything she has been through. The next day,
he goes to the palace to submit the final
product but sees the doctor and his wife
together. The doctor has no sense of smell
but he doesn’t want to be cured because then,
he wouldn’t be able to live
with his wife with smelly farts.
The love between them makes Kai realize
that he needs Heung in his life.
Hence, he runs to the market where
she is attending the flower festival.
He gives her the medicine and promises to love
her forever even if it doesn’t work. She flies
into his arms and takes the medicine.
Still, Kai goes to the palace to apologize
to the king for not completing the task.
He asks to apologize to the princess too
and goes to her quarter. To his surprise, he
finds an odorless Heung and discovers she is
the princess. She finally has a loving
husband and a nice-smelling body.
In the last scene, the two get married
as the entire city celebrates.
