A bottle of Gucci Bloom Acqua di Fiori can be seen on a table in Margaret’s walk-in closet. This eau de toilette, created by Alberto Morillas, was launched in 2018.
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There are three bottles of Estée Lauder Youth Dew on Rebecca’s dressing table. This warm amber perfume, created by Josephine Catapano, was launched in 1953.
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Before leaving Shy Baldwin’s wedding party, Susie (Alex Borstein) wants to get a gift bag but Miriam (Rachel Brosnahan) doesn’t agree because she thinks gift bags are “tacky”. She changes her mind when she realises the bags contain Chanel No. 5.
Susie ends up leaving with many gift bags!
What I find strange is that the only perfume bottle seen on the gift bag table is not Chanel No. 5 but Coco (see the black paper strip around the bottle neck). I would be curious to know why the prop masters didn’t use the perfume mentioned in the conversation but opted for a fragrance launched in 1984, decades after the time in which the tv show is set.
While Rue is running from her mother, she gets to Lexi’s house. She goes into one bathroom, where she steals a pair of gold earrings. It’s unclear whom the room belongs to but I think it’s Suze’s because three Avon bottles can be seen in it. It’s unlikely for two teenagers like Cassie and Lexi to keep perfumes from the 1970s in their bathroom, so this must be their mother’s.
The first Avon bottle has the shape of a bird perched on a metal base: it’s the Song Bird bottle, used to house (among others) the cologne Unforgettable, launched in 1965.
Just behind the photo frame there’s a black bottle with gold lettering: it’s from the Avon Star Signs collection. This is the Leo bottle, which we can assume is Suze’s zodiac sign. As usual, even this bottle was used to house several fragrances, so it’s impossible to tell what’s in it.
The third Avon fragrance is housed in a beautiful white fluted bottle; it’s Avon Sonnet, a floral powdery scent launched in 1938.
In the screencap above we can also see a pump bottle of Ilia Super Serum skin tint.
Thanks to Alessandra for the Ilia id and to VintageImageBox for the Avon Star Signs bottle.
There are two interesting perfume bottles on this dressing table.
The fan-shaped bottle is the German fragrance Summer Flowers by Chiara Ambra.
There’s also a lovely cork-shaped bottle of Yves Saint Laurent Champagne, a fruity/powdery fragrance created by Sophia Grojsman and launched in 1993. Three years later it was renamed Yvresse because of a lawsuit filed by the Comité interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne.
Thanks to Jane Daly for submitting this post and to Jennifer for the Chiara Ambra id.
When Omar (Giuseppe Dave Seke) hides in Rico’s bathroom to escape his fury, we can see some perfume bottles on a shelf.
The white bottle is Camelia by L’Erbolario, an amber floral fragrance launched in 2014.
The tall powder pink bottle is Yves Saint Laurent Opium Vapeurs de Parfum in the eau de toilette lègère version, launched in 2012.
Last, the tall splash bottle with white plastic stopper is Rochas Madame Rochas eau de cologne. The eau de parfum version, created by Guy Robert, was launched in 1960.
Kitty (Amy Beth Hayes) and Jessie (Sai Bennett) are collecting money for the Belgian Relief Fund, an international organization that supplied food to occupied Belgium and northern France during WWI.
Their counter is basically a display for Guerlain bottles.
Many of them are flacons abeilles, first used in 1828 to house the Eau de Cologne Impériale. The classic version of this bottle have the bees simply painted in gold enamel, while those with gold front label are the flacons abeilles dorées.
There are two flacons bouchon coeur, too. The choice is historically accurate because they first appeared in 1912; too bad one of these is a spray bottle, clearly not available at the time in which the tv show is set.
Last, there’s a flacon quadrilobe, another historically accurate choice because this bottle first appeared in 1908 to house the perfume Rue de la Paix, then used for the extraits of several fragrances.
There’s a Guerlain flacon montre in Marilyn Monroe’s bedroom.
This is a very unusual choice because there’s no evidence that Marily wore Guerlain colognes. The reason behind this prop is easy to explain: Ryan Murphy is clearly a fan of this bottle and of the French brand; both have often been shown or quoted in his shows.
It’s not a historically accurate choice, though: the gold screw-cap stopper was first introduced in 1972, 10 years after the death of the American actress. In the 1960s flacons montre were available with the ground glass stopper.
[1] Marilyn’s name will forever be connected to Chanel No. 5, but she was also a fan of the now-discontinued Rose Geranium eau de toilette by Floris.
There are two interesting beauty products on Lily’s mirrored vanity.
First, the trademark purple bottle of Mugler Alien, an amber woody creation by Dominique Ropion and Laurent Bruyere launched in 2005. The character is very much into space exploration and aliens, protagonists of the erotic comics she draws. So it’s not surprising to see the Alien perfume in her bedroom.
The tall bottle with orange stopper is Rimmel London Wake Me Up liquid foundation.
Thanks to Alessandra for the screencap and Alien id.
There’s a bottle of Artisan Woods For Him eau de cologne in Martin Harris’ bathroom cabinet.
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