There’s a suprising object on Dorothea’s writing desk – a bottle of Yves Saint Laurent Opium, the Secret de Parfum version. This is not the original 1977 perfume, created by Jean Amic and Jean-Louis Sieuzac, but a later version, created by Jean-Louis Sieuzac and launched in 1992. From a strictly historical point of view, this is an inaccurate choice, because the film is set in the late 1970s.
Dorrie (Charlotte Rampling) appreciates Sandy’s aftershave. Like a madeleine, that scent brings back memories from her childhood. Sandy (Woody Allen) gets the reference to À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust and jokingly comments he’s wearing Proustian Rush by Chanel. The reason why the French maison has never produced a perfume with such an evocative name is beyond me.
A real Chanel perfume appears later in the film, when Sandy visits his sister (Anne De Salvo). Chanel no. 5 refillable atomisers (one small, one big) can be seen on a plastic tray on her dresser.
On Yves Saint Laurent’s desk there are a white box of Y perfume and a red nail polish.
There’s a box of Davidoff Cool Water in David’s hotel room. This aromatic/marine perfume was created by It was created by Pierre Bourdon and launched in 1988.
In front of it there’s a large jar of Tiger Balm red ointment.
There are three products from the Cacharel LouLou perfume line on Kika’s dressing table: the shortest bottle contains Lait de douceur body lotion, and the tallest one the perfume. The floral can in the middle of the table is the deodorant. No wonder so many products of the same line were selected: this perfume, created by Jean Guichard and launched in 1987, was hugely popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The striped bottle in front of the mirror is Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, another iconic perfume, created by Michel Hy and launched in 1970.
Last but not least, some Kerastase Nutritive products (old packaging) can be seen on the far right of the table.
When Nicholas signs his book for Kika, we can see all the make-up on the table is by Cacharel. In this screenshot, pencils and compacts are visible but there are also tubes of foundation, lipsticks and bottles of setting spray.
The first men’s perfume by Yves Saint Laurent was Pour Homme, an aromatic scent launched in 1971. Its advertising campaign – the designer posing naked in front of the camera of Jean Loup Sieff – challenged the concept of male nudity in advertising and caused a scandal.
The same concept was used by Tom Ford in 2002: the advertising campaign of YSL M7 featured the martial arts champion Samuel de Cubber naked.
Two versions of Yves Saint Laurent Y can be seen all through the film: in the first picture there is the bottle with the tall cap, made of metal and a horn-like material; in the second there’s the bottle with glass cap. The perfume, originally launched in 1964, was created by Jean Amic.
There’s a bottle of Elizabeth Arden Arden for Men classic cologne in the bathroom where Jane (Edwige Fenech) is looking at herself in the mirror.
The white matte bottle with the gold cap on the right is a vintage skincare product by Guerlain – a cleansing milk, to be precise.
Thanks to PaleBlueMoon for the Guerlain id.
There are two Bvlgari perfumes on this dressing table – Eau parfumée au thé vert, created by Jean-Claude Ellena in 1992, and Bvlgari pour Femme, created in 1994 by Sophia Grojsman.
There are Lancôme Rénergie Lift foundation, a Santa Maria Novella cologne and a Chanel blush on Pauline’s dresser.
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