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.
Thierry Mugler Angel Vertigineuse Etoile, Boucheron Pour Femme, Dolce & Gabbana and Bond no. 9 perfumes.
Jenny Mellor (Carey Mulligan) brings a bottle of Chanel no. 5 perfume to Miss Stubbs (Olivia Williams), her favourite teacher, after visiting Paris.
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