In the screencap above there’s a half-empty bottle of Giorgio Armani Sì eau de toilette.
This fruity floral fragrance was created by Julie Massé and launched in 2015.
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There’s a Lancôme skincare item on Erica’s bedside table. It’s unclear whether it’s a make-up remover or a toner. As a matter of fact, this specific bottle — white with grey graphics and lettering — was used for several products.
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While John (Paul Anthony Kelly) and Carolyn (Sarah Pidgeon) are driving to an event, we can see she’s holding an aqua green compact.
It’s a compact by Clinique, a brand which selected this specific shade for their cosmetic packaging in 1968.
Lauren (Sydney Lemmon) is fixing Carolyn’s hair before attending a party. Carolyn (Sarah Pidgeon) is holding a MAC lipstick in an indistinct dark pink/brownish shade.
This lipstick was used as a prop, because the head make-up artist of the mini-series, Milagros Cerdeira, explained that another product — FACE Stockholm Cranberry Veil, described as “sheer cinnamon-red” — had been used on the actress throughout the series.
It’s 1996: when Carolyn (Sarah Pidgeon) decides to quit her job at Calvin Klein and breaks the news to her former employee, we can get a good look at the designer’s beautiful office. Just below one of the big windows, there’s a cabinet with some bottles on it. They happen to be some of Calvin Klein’s most popular fragrances.
Starting from the left, I can see Eternity, a white floral fragrance by Sophia Grojsman. It was launched in 1988.
Next, there are two bottles of CK One, the 1994 citrus aromatic fragrance by Alberto Morillas and Harry Fremont which defined the whole decade.
There are also two bottles of Obsession eau de parfum, a warm spicy fragrance by Jean Guichard launched in 1985.
Right in front of them, there’s the parfum version of the same fragrance, housed in a beautiful pebble-like bottle.
There’s a bottle of Johnson’s Baby Oil in Carolyn’s bathroom.
When Jackie (Naomi Watts) gets hospitalised, we can see her holding an Elizabeth Arden compact and a lipstick.
The lipstick in a neutral pink shade is by Revlon.
Carolyn is getting a manicure. The red nail polish they’re applying on her nails is by Essie. The exact shade used in the episode is Red-y for Bed, which didn’t exist in the 1990s. In the same way, the specific bottle seen in the episode didn’t exist back then.
There are Chanel N°5 eau de cologne (boxed) and a spray can of L’Oreal Elnett hairspray in the dressing room of Celine Dion in the late 1980s.
Elton John’s dressing table is very busy, but some perfume bottles stand out.
The round bottle on the left is a factice of Worth Je Reviens eau de cologne.
Next to it, there’s a real (and I mean REAL) mystery. The black label reads “Vespertine”: this happens to be a fictional perfume which made its appearance in the 5th season of the British TV show Endeavour. This cross-over (a fictional perfume appearing in a motion picture which apparently has no relation with the primary source) is kind of crazy, right? “The prop master must have been the same,” was my first thought, but IMDb didn’t give me any evidence, so my question is still on: how did Fenix Vespertine end up on Elton John’s dressing table???
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