In the screencaps above a bottle of Cerruti 1881 can be seen. The floral powdery perfume, launched in 1995, was created by Claire Cain.
Assassins (1995)
Category Archives: perfumes in movies
Metropolitan (1990)
There are three classic American drugstore products in Tom Townsend’s bathroom: an Old Spice stick deodorant and the original cologne, and a can of Barbasol shaving cream.
Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
Two YSL perfumes can be seen in the bathroom of the house the designer (Pierre Niney) shares with his partner Pierre Bergé (Guillame Gallienne).
In the first picture there’s the iconic silver, black and turquoise metal bottle of Rive Gauche, created by Michael Hy and launched in 1971. In the second, a bottle of Pour Homme can be seen in the background; this was launched – again – in 1971.
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Souffle de Mer is the fictional perfume that can be seen in Arlena Stuart Marshall’s bedroom. Its bottle doesn’t remind me of any real product, but the name is appropriate, since the film is set at an exclusive Adriatic island resort.
As Allison pointed out in the comments, in the film the French name of the perfume is translated as Breath of the Sea, a poetic rendition of the literal translation Sea Air.
Written on the Wind (1956)
The dresser in the picture above is packed with perfume bottles. Among them, I’ve been able to identify the following (from left to right):
Fabergé Tigress, launched in 1938. It’s the bottle with the fake fur stopper. Another bottle can be seen on the right, the stopper having a different fur pattern.
Caron Bellodgia, created by Ernest Daltroff and launched in 1927. There are two bottles of it.
Bourjois Mais Oui, launched in 1938. There are two bottles with the signature fan-shaped stopper; one of them is in its open box.
Guerlain flacon bouchon coeur. Impossible to tell which fragrance it contained.
Girl Most Likely (2012)
There are many interesting products in Imogene Duncan’s bathroom cabinet.
The black boxes on the top shelf are by MAC and contain lipsticks.
In the lower shelf there’s a blue perfume bottle with gold accents: it’s Dior Addict by Dior, a white floral fragrance created by Thierry Wasser and launched in 2002.
There’s also a jar of La Mer eye concentrate treatment.
Last, there’s a red box containing BeneTint lip and cheek stain by BeneFit.
Death on the Nile (1978)
There are two perfume bottles in Colonel Race’s cabin. Despite the ribbons in different colours, I think they are the same bottle – Penhaligon’s Hammam Bouquet.
The woody floral perfume was created in 1872 by William Penhaligon, who found inspiration in the Turkish baths located in Jermyn Street, London.
The bottle above has the old packaging, the Turkish star and crescent design being a nod to its main inspiration.
John Wick (2014)
One of the opening scenes is set in the protagonist’s bathroom. He’s standing alone in front of the mirror, but he’s looking at the other side of the counter, where many beauty products are. A close-up on this side shows us that it used to be Helen’s, his dead wife.
In the central part of the counter I’ve spotted a bottle of Kiehl’s Creme de Corps, Marvis toothpaste in Cinnamon Mint and some Jo Malone perfumes.
There are other products around the washbasin, among which a small bottle of L’Occitane Verveine shower gel (old packaging) and a NARS lipstick.
L’amour dure trois ans (2011)
There’s a bottle of Van Cleef & Arpels First on a glass shelf next to Marc (Gaspard Proust).
Single White Female (1992)
While watching the film, seeing a bottle of Clarins Eau Dynamisante on Allie’s dresser didn’t surprise me at all. I think very few perfumes can capture a certain 1990s vibe as accurately as this perfume. Fresh, citrusy and never overpowering, it was created by Jacques Courtin-Clarins in 1987. It was the epitome of that chic minimal mood with an active twist which was a staple of that decade.
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