There’s a Beauty Blender make-up sponge on Alice’s dressing table.
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Conchita Wurst’s Dressing Table (2014)
Some months ago Conchita posted this mirror selfie on her Instagram account. On the dressing table I’ve spotted the singer’s favourite perfume – Balenciaga Florabotanica – and matching body lotion.
9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
There are factices of Jean Desprez Bal à Versailles, Guerlain Mitsouko perfume and Shalimar cologne, plus Jean Patou Joy perfume, at Bloomingdale’s. A poster for Cacharel Anaïs Anaïs is visible, too.
Io sono l’amore (2009)
There are a tube of Tesori d’Oriente shower gel and a box from Acqua di Parma Collezione Barbiere line in Edoardo Recchi Junior’s bathroom.
Max et les ferrailleurs (1971)
Romy Schneider as Julia Anna Ackermann on the set of the film: she was lining her lips with a Kryolan Face Liner pencil in a nude shade.
Få meg på, for faen (2011)
How to Get Away with Murder S01E10 (Hello Raskolnikov)
There’s a bottle of Compagnie de Provence Savon de Marseille Extra Pur liquid soap (the scent is Verveine) in the Keatings’ bathroom.
Róisín Murphy’s Exploitation (2015)
You know I usually don’t cover music videos, but this sighting is too juicy not to be covered. Róisín Murphy has been one of my favourite singers since she was the frontwoman of Moloko. She started her solo career in 2005 and she’s about to release her fifth album, Hairless Toys. The first music video (and single) from the new album is Exploitation, which she wrote and directed. The Irish singer plays the role of a neurotic actress who sports a 1980s-inspired look. In one scene set in a dressing room, she’s barely able to apply her lipstick, which happens to be Tom Ford Lip Color Shine in Willful.
A New Kind of Love (1963)
Samantha Blake (Joanne Woodward) is a fashion designer who receives a make-over. A blonde wig and sexy clothes call for a sexy perfume, so two Lanvin Arpège products can be spotted on a shelf in her bedroom – a refillable spray atomizer and a talcum powder bottle.
Twilight (1998)
Jean Desprez Bal à Versailles is mentioned in a conversation between Harry Ross (Paul Newman) and the actress Catherine Ames (Susan Sarandon). He’s a private detective who’s investigating on the mysterious disappearance of Catherine’s ex husband. He knows she was at a murder scene by her scent, which happens to be the famous fragrance launched in 1962.
In Scent and Subversion Barbara Herman describes it as “the perfume version of a rock star’s retro suit: an interpretation of the past through the tripped-out psychedelic fantasies of the ’60s.” She continues: “It starts off brightly and moves into powdery sweetness. You can almost smell the smoke from dying-out beeswax candles. An hour or two into it, and Bal à Versailles is a mellow, powdery-gentle, and comforting skin scent.” According to Fragrantica, it has a citrusy/floral opening (rosemary, orange blossom, mandarin orange, cassia, jasmine, neroli, bergamot, Bulgarian rose and lemon), warm middle notes (sandalwood, patchouli, lilac, orris root, vetiver, ylang-ylang, lily-of-the-valley and leather) and woody/animalic base notes (tolu balsam, amber, musk, benzoin, civet, vanilla, cedar and resins). Not a perfume for the faint of heart!
A curiosity: no wonder that such a peculiar perfume has lots of fans. Among them, the Italian actress Valentina Cortese and Michael Jackson, who was said to have first used it thanks to Elizabeth Taylor.
World Wide Aura 
