There’s a bottle of Josie Maran argan cleansing oil on the wash-basin in Claudia Bankson’s bathroom.
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Sex and the City S06E07 (Hop, Skip, and a Week)
There’s a bottle of Vivienne Westwood Libertine on the window sill in Carrie’s bedroom. This fragrance was created by Martin Gras and launched in 2000 as the lighter side of the British designer’s first fragrance, Boudoir. The bottles of the two perfumes are very similar, but Libertine‘s is taller.
Scream Queens S01E06 (Seven Minutes in Hell)
With the Red Devil killing spree still going strong, Chanel #5 (Abigail Breslin) and Chanel #3 (Billie Lourd) seal the pact of surviving Chanel Oberlin, the co-president of the Kappa House. In this scene, Chanel #3 is doing her pedicure, using Christian Louboutin Loubi nail care kit, which includes a nail primer and a nail gloss. On the marble counter, a Chanel blush compact can be seen.
There’s another Chanel product in the bathroom, just behind the wash-basin: a bottle of Coco Mademoiselle.
Thanks to Yaenii for the perfume sighting.
True Blood S01E09 (Plaisir d’Amour)
There’s a bottle of Panrosa anti-bacterial green apple hand soap in Tara’s bathroom.
American Horror Story S05E01 (Checking In)
Hypodermic Sally (Sarah Paulson) is wearing No Explanation by AJ Crimson, a beautiful deep berry shade.
Thanks to Eryn Krueger Mekash, the show’s make-up artist, for the id.
The Wild Life (1984)
Eileen (Jenny Wright) keeps a bottle of Volcan d’Amour by Diane Von Furstenberg on her dressing table. The second fragrance by Von Furstenberg – a bold chypre with a strong basil note – was inspired to her love story with a Brazilian man and launched in 1981.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
After much debate, I’ve come to terms with the fact that no Evian products were mentioned in the famous first dialogue between Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling. The point is that an Evian product actually appears in the movie and I’ve never noticed it before. It’s the classic mineral water spray with the pink cap, sitting on a chest of drawers in Clarice’s bedroom.
Scream Queens S01E05 (Pumpkin Patch)
Chanel #5 (Abigail Breslin) wants to convince Jennifer to vote Zayday as new president of the KKT Sorority House, so as to bring Chanel Oberlin down. She reveals one of Chanel’s luxurious habits (burning Diptyque candles once and then throwing them away), promises all those candles to Jennifer, who obviously freaks out, ready to vote whomever she is asked to.
In Chanel’s closet there’s a number of candles, burnt once and then put aside. They’re not real Diptyque candles, but prop masters did a good job in reproducing the main features of the famous French candles – oval label, glass vase and names. None of the names (Iris, Lilac, Lily, 23) is the real name of a Diptyque candle, but they are reminiscent of them. 23 instead of 34? Nice try! Someone in the prop department has done his/her research.
The Ring (2002)
There’s an OPI bottle on the bedside table in Katie’s bedroom. It could be a top coat, a base coat or even Nail Envy nail strengthener.
Mr Selfridge S01E03
The dressing table of Rose Selfridge (Frances O’Connor) is quite busy. She’s clearly a fan of Guerlain perfumes: two flacons montre [1] can be seen on the shelf in front of the window, but there’s more. She opens a Guerlain box, decorated with people and animals, and takes out a flacon bouchon coeur, the bottle with the heart-shaped stopper designed by Raymond Guerlain in collaboration with Baccarat. It would be easy to assume this is Après l’Ondée, created by Jacques Guerlain in 1906, but it’s not, because that perfume has never had that bottle. It would have been a historically accurate choice (this episode takes place in 1909), but prop masters opted for something different. The flacon bouchon coeur originally contained three perfumes, released between 1912 and 1919.
Fol Arôme was created by Jacques Guerlain in 1912. Grace Hummel found a reference of this perfume being sold in 1896, so the 1912 version would be a reworked or relaunched perfume.
L’Heure Bleue was created by Jacques Guerlain in 1912. I don’t think this is the perfume seen on Rose’s dressing table because of the blue lettering on the central sticker.
The last possibility is Mitsouko, one of the most famous perfumes by the French brand. Another creation by Jacques Guerlain, it was launched in 1919, ten years after the time in which the tv show is set.
My guess is that the perfume seen in this episode is Fol Arôme, because the pale orange decorations on the sticker seem to match.
[1] The flacon montre was first released in 1936. The presence of these bottles in this episode is totally inaccurate, but no one can deny their decorative function.
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