Georges is checking the content of Brontë’s bathroom cabinet.

The object at the centre is a small spray can of Gillette Foamy shaving cream.

The two white bottles are very intriguing. The citrus front label clearly reads “Bourjois Eau de Cologne”, so this id should be a no-brainer. Too bad that this eau de cologne doesn’t exist! If you look at the screencap closely, you will see that the prop masters took generic white bottles and glued Art Deco-style labels on them. What is surprising is that they used the name of a real brand. I wonder if Bourjois was in the know of this “poetic licence”…

The imagination of the prop masters was put to the test by a very important element of the plot – the infamous Monticello restorative cream for the face, Brontë’s moisturiser of choice.

The only evidence of this brand took me back to American history, where Monticello is Thomas Jefferson’s plantation near Charlottesville, Virginia. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, that has maintained the plantation and kept it to the public, sells skincare products on their online shop, so *there could* be a connection with the face cream seen in the film, although I have found no evidence that the aforementioned cream was actually produced and sold by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

More mystery lies on the glass shelf above. There’s a (soap) box on the right that reads “Natural Seaweed” and the brand is Revive Lab. Again, I found no evidence of such a brand.

What cannot be mistaken is the floral box at the centre of the shelf: it’s definitely a Clinique product, although it’s impossible to identify because the box is never shown in its entirety.

Thanks to Taylor Rowley for submitting this post.