Garbage’s front-woman, Shirley Manson, recently posted this picture on her Facebook account. Her hair stylist Sammy cut her pink hair into a perfect bob. Lovely! One of the products he used on her was Joseph Martin Hair French Argan oil.
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Maps to the Stars (2014)
Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore) has got quite a perfume collection: the marble top of her dressing table is pretty busy.
On the left, there’s a bottle of Issey Miyake L’Eau d’Issey, the perfume “as clear as water spring” created by Jacques Cavallier in 1992.
There’s another perfume by Cavallier, the iconic corset-shaped bottle of Jean-Paul Gaultier Classique, a sweet powdery scent launched in 1993.
Two Prada bottles can be seen, too. One is Infusion de Fleur d’Oranger, launched in 2009, and the other is Candy, created by Daniela Andrier and launched in 2011.
There’s a bottle of Gucci by Gucci, a fruity fragrance created by Ilias Ermenidis in 2008.
Vivienne Westwood’s trademark globe encircled by a ring is the stopper of Boudoir, a chypre floral perfume created by Martin Gras and launched in 1998.
Last but not least, there are two versions of Chanel Coco Mademoiselle, the oriental woody fragrance created by Jacques Polge and launched in 2001 – the classic bottle and the twist-and-spray white and gold atomiser.
When the same dressing table appears in another scene, there are other two bottles on it.
One is the ring-shaped bottle of Boucheron Pour Femme, a white floral perfume created by Francis Deleamont and Jean-Pierre Bethouart in 1989.
The other one is the hot pink bottle of Creed Spring Flower, a fresh fruity and floral fragrance created for Audrey Hepburn by Olivier Creed (6th generation) and launched in 2006.
Les diaboliques (1955)
Nicole Horner (Simone Signoret) is a teacher at a private school, where she gets involved into a dangerous love triangle. She’s a cool plotter and an elegant lady: she navigates the stormy waters of the plot wearing trench coats, pencil skirt-shirt-cardigan combos, belted dresses and chic sunglasses. She’s a pragmatic woman, so it’s not a surprise that she uses eau de cologne as rubbing alcohol. In the scene above, she is about to give a sedative shot to poor Christina Delassalle and takes some liquid from a bottle sitting on a dresser.
The bottle in question happens to be a Coty one, with the trademark fluted details. We can’t identify the exact perfume from the front label or from the colour of the stopper (since the film was shot in black and white), but we can make some assumptions.
Judging from the shape of the label, it could be the cologne Cordon Rouge or Cordon Vert, originally launched in the early 1900s. In the 1930s/1940s most of Coty colognes had this bottle, so this one could also contain L’aimant.
Endeavour S01E01 (Girl)
There’s a box of Colgate Halo shampoo on the shelf of the barber shop where Denis Bradley (Alan Morrissey) gets a haircut.
Sons of Anarchy S05E09 (Andare Pescare)
Tara (Maggie Siff) visits Otto (Kurt Sutter) in hospital and brings him his favourite perfume, the one worn by his (now dead) lover Luann. Described by Gemma as smelling “like cum and patchouli,” it’s the only fragrance Otto wanted Luann to wear. No surprise he asks Tara to wear it for him. The scene where he sniffs her wrist is pure perfume fetishism, a very intimate moment.
Notting Hill (1999)
Honey (Emma Chambers) receives Jean-Paul Gaultier Classique as a gift for her birthday.
House of Cards S02E11 (Chapter 24)
There’s a jar of Pinaud Clubman styling gel on the shelf next to the mirror.
Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme… (1973)
There’s a bottle of L’Oreal Obao bubble bath on Jeanne’s bath tub. This product, advertised in France as “le bain de mousse à la japonaise”, was launched in 1963; its name was inspired to o-furo, the traditional Japanese bath.
Brooklyn (2015)
There are very few toiletries in the suitcase Eilis is packing to go to the U.S. – a tin can of Palmolive Cashmere Bouquet talcum powder, a round tin box of Vaseline white petroleum jelly and a tube of Colgate Chlorophyll toothpaste.
Mr Selfridge S02E07
Kitty Hawkins (Amy Beth Hayes) is holding two Penhaligon’s perfumes while chatting with her assistant Jessie (Sai Bennett).
Thanks to a larger shot, we know that those are bottles of Malabah, sitting on the glass counter next to Lily of the Valley and a factice bottle of English Fern.
Bottles of Lavandula and Orange Blossom can be seen, too.
Picking Penhaligon’s perfumes for this show is historically accurate, since Penhaligon’s was established in 1870. Some of the fragrances seen on Selfridge’s counters were launched way after the 1910s, though – Orange Blossom in 1976, Malabah in 2003 and Lavandula in 2004. On the other hand, Lily of the Valley was created in 1907, English Fern in 1910, so they could be actually sold in the Oxford Street department store.
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