 Sistach's film becomes a representation of how the urban setting, with its limited access and drive to attain capital, provokes sexual violence against females and transforms these citizens into agents of violence to secure survival [...] Perfume de violetas denounces the governmental and societal ignorance which affects females in Mexico.The protagonist interacts with a dominant culture and an urban space that provoke sexual violence against the female subject.The home and school spheres create the construction of gender which result in violence when females enter the public space."