There’s a bar of Ivory soap in Will’s bathroom.
Stranger Things S02E01 (MADMAX)
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Stranger Things S02E01 (MADMAX)
There’s an Avon cologne in the bathroom at Barb’s house. It’s unclear what cologne it is, since Avon used the same bottle (the thimble one, in this case) for different scents. Elusive, Bird of Paradise and Charisma colognes were all sold in this golden stopper bottle.
Thanks to my friend Jennifer for the id.
Leni Riefenstahl (1988)
The German-born photographer took this picture in 1988 for Vanity Fair. Leni Riefenstahl was a German photographer and film director who had a strategic role during Nazism: she directed Triumph des Willens and Olympia in the 1930s, extremely effective and innovative propaganda films. Said to be part of Hitler’s inner circle, she was never charged nor associated with war crimes.
In this portrait, taken when she was 86 years old, she was holding a beautiful metal compact by Guerlain.
It’s a vintage piece, probably a limited edition from the 1970s. It’s made of metal and has the trademark double Gs decorating the front. It’s quite thick and rounded, in comparison to today’s compacts, which tend to be very thin.
Room 104 S01E06 (Voyeurs)
The Housekeeper (Dendrie Taylor) finds a lipstick in Room 104. The sticker on the bottom of the rose gold fluted case says the shade is Bitter Love, but it’s actually Love Bite, a bright warm red shade by Charlotte Tilbury.
The Girl (Sarah Hay), who embodies the Housekeeper’s young self, uses the same lipstick.
Greed (2009)
In 2009 Roman Polanski directed the (fake) commercial for a (fake) perfume: Greed by Francesco Vezzoli. Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman are the stars of the short movie as two women literally fighting for Greed.
The centre of the art installation held at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome was the “perfume that doesn’t exist”, whose bottle has a peculiar story. Vezzoli took inspiration from Belle Haleine: Eau de Voilette, the fake perfume created by Marcel Duchamp in 1921 using a Rigaud perfume bottle. Duchamp appeared on the perfume bottle label as Rrose Sélavy, photographed by Man Ray and Vezzoli did the same, photographed by Francesco Scavullo.
The advertising campaign featured portraits of famous female artists made of inkjet, wool, cotton, metallic embroidery and custom jewelry on brocade. Among them, Eva Hesse, Lee Miller, Frida Kahlo, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tamara de Lempicka and Georgia O’Keeffe.
How to Get Away with Murder S04E03 (It’s for the Greater Good)
Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) tries some lipsticks before leaving for work. One is Chanel Coco Rouge Shine.
The other is Tom Ford Lips & Boys, a lipstick collection launched in 2014.
Tales of the Unexpected S05E01 (Blue Marigold)
Myra (Toyah Willcox) is the celebrated face of the Blue Marigold advertising campaign, but she descends into self-destruction when she is told she is unsuitable for the perfume commercials because of her voice. The bottle used for the fictitious perfume is not fictitious at all: it’s Guerlain Chamade!
The balsamic floral perfume was created by Jean-Paul Guerlain in 1969 and was inspired by the novel La chamade by Françoise Sagan. The beautiful leaf-shaped bottle was created by Pochet et du Courval and exclusively used for this fragrance.
Divine on Harpers and Queen (1980)
Divine having a bubble bath in a St. John’s Wood bathroom is such an entrancing view! The artist from Baltimore, protagonist of many iconoclastic films by John Waters, posed for Peter Warner for Divine Bathrooms, Lovely Loos, a photoshoot published on the British magazine Harpers and Queen (September 1980 issue).
There are some perfume bottles on the mahogany-panelled window by the tub. The first on the left is the amphora-like bottle of L’air du temps by Nina Ricci, created by Francis Fabron and launched in 1948.
Next to it, Empreinte by Courreges, a fragrance created by Robert Gonnon and launched in 1970.
I haven’t been able to identify the bottle with the white stopper next to it, but the small bottle on the right is definitely Hermès Calèche, composed by Guy Robert in 1961.
Not only perfumes, but body lotions, too. The white bottle is Yves Saint Laurent Opium perfumed body veil.
The glass containers look like Avon vanity jars.
Do you want to channel your inner Divine? You need a ball dress by Zandra Rhodes to abandon on the floor, a box of Charbonnel et Walker chocolates, a shell ring by Andrew Logan and a platinum blonde curly hairdo. No results guaranteed but worth trying ♥
American Horror Story S07E06 (Mid-Western Assassin)
When Ally takes Meadow (Leslie Grossman) to the Butchery on Main restaurant, the latter finally discloses the whole cult plot. Before starting the conversation, she takes a candle in a decorative tin from a table display and puts it in her bag.
It’s the Persimmon & Copal candle from the Japonica collection by Voluspa.
The displays includes candles (boxed and unboxed) from the Maison Noir collection by Voluspa.
There are also large candles in embossed glass jars from the Japonica collection again. The ones with the glass jar in light colours are Nissho-Soleil, French Cade Lavender and Mokara.
The ones with the red glass jar are Goji Tarocco Orange.
Stevie Nicks’ Dressing Room
I’ve always imagined Stevie Nicks wearing an intoxicating, sexy and witchy scent like Fracas (supposedly one of her favourite perfumes), so seeing a Nina Ricci perfume on her dressing table came as a surprise. I don’t know exactly when the picture above was taken (late 1970s? Early 1980s?), but it portrays Stevie with Herbert Worthington III, her official photographer.
It’s unclear what exact perfume is shown, because Nina Ricci used the same refillable spray bottle for several perfumes. It could be L’air du temps, the timeless warm spicy fragrance created by Francis Fabron and launched just after WWII, in 1948.
It could also be Farouche, a floral aldehyde fragrance launched in 1973.
Or even Capricci, another woody/spicy creation by Fabron, launched in 1960.
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