Will (Jude Law) gives Oana (Vera Farmiga) a bottle of Jo Malone fragrance.
Earlier in the film, the same bottle can be seen on Liv’s dressing table. “That’s fucked up,” Oana tells Will when she finds out Liv uses it. “What man wants to be with a girl that smells like his wife?” Will doesn’t seem to care because he says he doesn’t want to be with Oana – she’s a prostitute but they’ve been talking all the time.
Two Dior houndstooth bottles on the Draytons’ bathroom shelf.
The houndstooth bottle is a classic for Dior perfumes, so I’ve been wondering what were the exact fragrances seen in the film. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to read the front labels, so I’m pretty clueless. Yet, since the film was released in 1967, it’s possible to narrow the search to the perfumes launched before that year.
Miss Dior, the 1947 chypre floral fragrance created by Jean Carles and Paul Vacher.
Diorama, the 1949 chypre fragrance created by Edmond Roudnitska.
Diorissimo, the 1956 spectacular lily of the valley bomb created by Edmond Roudnitska.
Diorling, the 1963 chypre fragrance created by Paul Vacher.
Which of these perfumes could suit the protagonists of the film? Any guesses?
Zoe Valdes (Heather McComb) keeps a giant bottle of Chanel no. 5 perfume on her desk.
Bonus read: an overview of the Chanel accessories and costume jewellery seen in the film. In the late 1980s Sofia Coppola wasn’t a director yet, but she worked on this film: she curated the costume and wardrobe department, wrote the screenplay with her father and designed the main titles.
Monica (Frances O’ Connor) and Henry Swinton (Sam Robards) are getting ready to go to a party. She’s just worn her favourite perfume, which her husband loves.
David (Haley Joel Osment), a highly advanced robotic boy who’s staying with them, desperately wants to be loved: for this reason, he wears Monica’s perfume.
Unfortunately, he’s used all her Chanel Coco perfume, which is very hard to find in the future envisioned in the film.
Addie Loggins (Tatum O’Neal) uses Bourjois Evening in Paris cologne (her mother’s perfume).
The perfume, created by Ernest Beaux in 1928, was first launched in France as Soir de Paris. The movie is set during the Great Depression and the bottle is historically accurate: as a matter of fact, the silver curved label on cobalt blue glass appeared in the 1930s.
Astrid (Alison Lohman) decorates a suitcase dedicated to one of her foster mothers, Claire Richards (Renée Zellweger), with a bottle of Jean Patou Joy perfume.
Dior J’Adore perfume on the table on the right.
Arrid men’s cologne in Laura and Dan Brown’s bathroom cabinet.
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