Casey (Charlotte Christie) sneaks into the protagonist’s house: she finds out her idol, rock-band drummer Ben Sergeant, uses Chanel Allure Homme and sprays it on her friend Jody.
On the mantelpiece in Tamara’s bedroom there’s a Jo Malone candle, too.
While the Director (Otomar Krejča) is filming a new documentary, he meets up with the model Zuzana (Ivana Striničová) in a boathouse and gives her Guerlain Chant d’Arômes as a gift. This is one of those rare cases in which the name of the perfume is actually mentioned (Zuzana tries to read its name on the bottle, but the Director corrects her with a good French pronunciation).
This is the Flacon Chant d’Arômes, produced by Pochet du Courval. The chypre perfume contains notes of white flowers (gardenia, jasmine, honeysuckle, ylang-ylang) and is the first solo creation of Jean-Paul Guerlain; launched in 1962, it was addressed to a young audience, in an attempt to bring new energy and a youthful spirit into the brand. According to Monsieur Guerlain, the bottle “was inspired by the design of a Florentine vase. It came with a green velvet ribbon, like the ones young girls used to wear around their necks — a romantic nod to youth and purity.” It seems appropriate that the Director gives Zuzana such a youthful, yet classy, perfume.
The credit of this id goes to the lovely Monika, the mind behind the perfume blog Guerlinade, who posted a screencap of the film on her Instagram account, thus sparking my obsession with it.
There’s Boucheron Pour Femme perfume on Daisy Darling’s bathroom shelf.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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