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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

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L’Air de Panache, the favourite perfume of M. Gustave H.

According to Wes Anderson, “it has a Russian quality, like Orthodox incense. Plus, something collected from the erogenous zones of rare animals.” This was born as a fictional perfume, but has recently become reality: Anderson and distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures commissioned perfumer Mark Buxton, co-founder of French perfume boutique Nose, to create a concept scent.

The head notes include basil, bergamot, mandarin, petitgrain and green apple; the heart notes include sambac jasmine and rose; the base notes inlcude amber, castoreum, cedar, oakmoss, musk and patchouli.

Unfortunately, L’Air de Panache is not available for sale.

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

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There are two Revlon red nail polishes on the small shelf in front of the mirror on Holly Golightly’s dressing table.

On the table there’s a giant flacon bouchon coeur by Guerlain; there’s no label on it, so it’s impossible to know what fragrance it contains.
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The small bottle with white stopper is Desert Flower, a Shulton fragrance launched in 1947.

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The black tall bottle is a René Lalique creation housing D’Orsay Mystère, a chypre fragrance launched in 1915.

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On the right side of the table there are four Lucien Lelong fragrances. The small bottle is Balalaika, launched in 1939; the tall bottle behind it is Sirocco, launched in 1934; the bottle with the bow-shaped stopper is Jabot, launched in 1939; the bottle in the blue box is Opening Night, launched in 1935.

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Thanks to Phyl D for the Shulton id and to Alessandro for the D’Orsay id.