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Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette E06 (The Wedding)

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It’s 1996: when Carolyn (Sarah Pidgeon) decides to quit her job at Calvin Klein and breaks the news to her former employee, we can get a good look at the designer’s beautiful office. Just below one of the big windows, there’s a cabinet with some bottles on it. They happen to be some of Calvin Klein’s most popular fragrances.

Starting from the left, I can see Eternity, a white floral fragrance by Sophia Grojsman. It was launched in 1988.

Next, there are two bottles of CK One, the 1994 citrus aromatic fragrance by Alberto Morillas and Harry Fremont which defined the whole decade.

There are also two bottles of Obsession eau de parfum, a warm spicy fragrance by Jean Guichard launched in 1985.

Right in front of them, there’s the parfum version of the same fragrance, housed in a beautiful pebble-like bottle.

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Rocketman (2019)

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Elton John’s dressing table is very busy, but some perfume bottles stand out.

The round bottle on the left is a factice of Worth Je Reviens eau de cologne.

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Next to it, there’s a real (and I mean REAL) mystery. The black label reads “Vespertine”: this happens to be a fictional perfume which made its appearance in the 5th season of the British TV show Endeavour. This cross-over (a fictional perfume appearing in a motion picture which apparently has no relation with the primary source) is kind of crazy, right? “The prop master must have been the same,” was my first thought, but IMDb didn’t give me any evidence, so my question is still on: how did Fenix Vespertine end up on Elton John’s dressing table???

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Hellraiser (1987)

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There are some very interesting fragrances on Julia’s dressing table.

I had to crop the close-up shot of the table and adjust the lighting in order to show that the refillable atomiser on the left is green.

It’s Jean Couturier Coriandre, a 1973 chypre fragrance created by Jacqueline Couturier, Jean-Louis Sieuzac and Gerard Pelpel.

Next to it there’s a splash bottle of Chanel Cristalle eau de toilette, a citrus aromatic fragrance created by Henri Robert and launched in 1974.

There’s also Cacharel Anaïs Anaïs, a 1978 floral fragrance created by Roger Pellegrino, Robert Gonnon, Paul Leger and Raymond Chaillan.

A slight camera movement shows a fourth product: it’s Ungaro Diva, housed in a beautiful fluted spray bottle. This is a woody floral fragrance created by Jacques Polge and launched in 1983.

Thanks to Samuel for submitting this post.

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Dead Ringers (1988)

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Beverly Mantle (Jeremy Irons) is often shown in his bathroom. The scene in which he opens a mirrored cabinet gives us the chance to see what’s in it, besides medicines and medications.

On the second shelf from the top there’s a can of Barbasol shaving cream.

On the third shelf from the top there’s a Borsalino product. The eau de toilette and ancillary products are featured throughout the film. In this specific case, I can’t decide if it’s a small can of deodorant or of shaving cream.

On the bottom shelf there’s a jar of Noxzema greaseless and medicated skin cream.

Later in the film, the presence of Borsalino products gets more prominent.

In the screencap above we can see the eau de toilette. This chypre fragrance was launched in 1984.

There’s also a can of shaving cream.

This screencap has been discussed in fragrance forums since forever. The Borsalino bottle has always been identified as the eau de toilette, but I can finally say it’s not!

It’s a black glass bottle containing Borsalino shower gel. The bottle that holds the eau de toilette is brown and made of clear glass, so it is definitely not that one.