I haven’t watched Call Me by Your Name by Luca Guadagnino yet, but I’ve kept the best picture from the set for last. The author is – again – Giulio Ghirardi, who gave us the perfect shot of a dressing table, covered with some fabric from the Middle East.
Among the several perfume bottles, I’ve spotted Christian Dior Eau Sauvage, a 1966 creation by Edmond Roudnitska.
Next to it, there’s Acqua di Parma Colonia, the first fragrance of the Italian brand, created in 1916.
The blue tin unmistakably contains Nivea Creme, a product created in Germany but incredibly popular in Italy.
Another quintessentially Italian product is Roberts Acqua distillata alle rose, a toner first created in 1867.
Last but not least, there’s a bottle of Vanderbilt by Gloria Vanderbilt, a huge commercial success created by Sophia Grojsman in 1982. It’s impossible not to have a memory of it, if you were born in the 1970s/1980s: this white floral fragrance was everywhere!
Linnet Ridgeway’s bedroom/boudoir is lavishly furnished in white and decorated with colorful glass, mirrors and marble. Several French perfumes are sitting on her vanity, a natural extension of her flawless style.
The first bottle that has caught my attention is the Lanvin boule on the left. It’s unclear what perfume it contained, because the French maison used the same bottle for two different perfumes, Arpege (created by Andre Fraysse in 1927) and My Sin (called Mon Péché in French, created by the mysterious Madame Zed in 1924). The film is set in the 1930s, so it’s plausible for both to sit on that vanity.
The same thing can be said for the black bottle on the right, containing Lanvin talcum powder. It could be Arpege or My Sin.
The Guerlain chauve souris bottle unmistakably contained Shalimar, created by Jacques Guerlain in 1925.
Guerlain Liu

Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) keeps a bottle of Old Spice on a shelf by the fridge.




Mellie Logan (Riley Keough) uses almost exclusively Tigi Bed Head products at the hair salon where she works. Starting from the farthest table to the nearest, I’ve spotted the following:
A round bottle of Small Talk energizing cream
A bottle of Elasticate 
A bottle of Straighten Out
A bottle of Control Freak
A bottle of Maxxed-Out
The odd one out here is a pink can of Aqua Net super-hold hairspray
Even the pink hairdryer is by Tigi: it’s the Mind Blower

I wonder if Monsieur Poirot (Peter Ustinov) noticed the massive Guerlain

There’s a Dior Diorskin liquid foundation in Lorraine Broughton’s make-up drawer. This is clearly a historically inaccurate choice – the story is set in the Berlin in the late 1980s – but there’s an explanation: Charlize Theron, who plays the role of Lorraine, has been the testimonial for Dior J’Adore since 2004. Besides the foundation, other details (clothes and accessories, for example) are contemporary.




Julie (Elle Fanning) works as sales assistant at a mall. In the screencap above, some bottles of Healing Waters


In this Instagram picture from Taylor Sloane’s account there are a spray bottle of Jao refresher and a box containing Marvis Aquatic Mint toothpaste.