There’s Boucheron Pour Femme perfume on Daisy Darling’s bathroom shelf.
Category Archives: perfumes in movies
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.
Få meg på, for faen (2011)
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.
La cage aux folles (1978)
Albin Mougeotte (Michel Serrault) is getting ready to become his drag queen self, Zaza Napoli. The dressing table is super-busy: I’d love to identify everything on it, but I’ve come up with a couple of perfumes only.
The first sits on the left: it’s Y, one of the first perfumes by Yves Saint Laurent. Created by Jean Amic and launched in 1964, it’s a chypre fruity fragrance opening up with a triumph of aldehydes, honeysuckle, gardenia and peach. It was advertised as the “invisible dress by Yves Saint Laurent”, made “especially for his devilishly aware clientele”. I wonder if Albin was among them.
The second sits on the right: it’s the unmistakable flacon montre of Guerlain colognes. It has the gold screw-cap stopper, which is accurate, since the film was directed in 1978. The central disk on the label is purple, so it’s Jicky.
It’s one of the historical scents by Guerlain, created in 1889: according to Fragrantica, it was one of the first perfumes created with addition of synthetic materials. The top notes include rosemary and citrus (lemon, bergamot and mandarin orange); the middle notes include tonka bean, lavender, orris root, basil and jasmine, balanced by the warm base notes of spices, leather, sandalwood, benzoin, amber, Brazilian rosewood and vanilla. This sounds just perfect for Albin’s flamboyant personality.
9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
While Elizabeth is perusing some necklaces and John asks her to steal one, a bottle of Giorgio Beverly Hills can be seen on the right corner.
Rushmore (1998)
Royal Crown hair dressing, Pinaud Clubman talc, Avon Stop ‘N Go after-shave, Corvette Stingray ’65 bottle containing Spicy after-shave and Thunderbird ’55 bottle containing Deep Woods after-shave in Bert Fischer’s barber shop.
The Women (2008)
There is a Narciso Rodriguez For Her display at Saks: both the black (eau de toilette) and the pale pink (eau de parfum) bottles are shown. The two fragrances, created by Christine Nagel and Francis Kurkdjian, were launched in 2004 and in 2006.
Later in the film, another bottle of Narciso Rodriguez For Her perfume appears in Mary Haines’s bedroom.
It’s not clear if it’s the pink bottle or the limited-edition white bottle of the eau de toilette.
The Four Seasons (1981)
Nick Callan (Len Cariou) gives Ginny Newley (Bess Armstrong) Guerlain Shalimar as a gift. The zigzag box tells me he gave her the Eau de Toilette version from the 1980s or the Eau de Cologne.
Nénette et Boni (1996)
Bottles of Christian Dior Dolce Vita and Lancôme Poême in the department store where the baker (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) goes shopping. The choice to put them on the shelves is historically accurate: the fragrance by Dior (created by Pierre Bourdon and Maurice Roger) was launched in 1994, while the Lancôme one (created by Jacques Cavallier) was launched in 1995.
Right below the Dior display there’s another interesting perfume, launched in 1996: it’s Butterfly by Hanae Mori, an amber fragrance created by Bernard Ellena.
Thanks to Alessandra for the Hanae Mori id.
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