There’s Victoria’s Secret Dream Angels Heavenly perfume on Samantha’s dressing table.
Category Archives: perfumes in tv shows
Olive Kitteridge, Part 2 (Incoming Tide)
House of Cards S01E06
The dressing table of Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) is pretty busy. We can find several interesting fragrances and make-up items on it.
The ones I have identified are Tocca Bianca (a sparkling scent with bottom notes of musk and sugar), Chloé Chloé (created by Betty Busse and launched in 1975) and Penhaligon’s Cornubia (a vampy white floral scent created by Nathalie Lawson in 1991).
The make-up items include a MAC 150 blush brush and Studio Fix powder foundation.
There are two NARS lipglosses, too. I’m pretty sure one is Albatross (old packaging), while the other could be Guyane or Vent Salé (new packaging).
My Mad Fat Diary S01E06 (It’s a Wonderful Rae Part 2)
There’s a bottle of Chanel Coco Mademoiselle on Rae’s mom’s dressing table. This is historically inaccurate: the tv show is set in the 1990s, while the Chanel perfume was launched in 2001/2002. Unfortunately, this is not the only mistake done by the show’s prop master: you may remember Britney Spears Fantasy and Tom Ford For Men perfumes appeared on Chloe’s desk in an episode of the second season.
A reader of this blog (Cpt. Librarian: thanks!) spotted another perfume for me, the one with the white bottle and the pink flower-shaped stopper. It’s Pivoine by Yves Rocher, a scent which was launched in the 1990s. This is historically accurate, after all.
How to Get Away with Murder S01E06 (Freakin’ Whack-a-Mole)
Cartier Eau de Cartier Concentrée, a citrus aromatic perfume created by Christine Nagel and launched in 2002, can be seen on Annalise Keating’s dressing table.
When I first spotted it, I thought it wasn’t the right choice for her. I expected her to wear something bold, more in-your-face, but then I realized I was wrong: the fresh note of yuzu combined with lavender, cedar, coriander, white amber and patchouli seems just perfect for her, as it’s fresh, clean and unfussy, a quiet detail in her hectic life.
American Horror Story S04E06 (Bullseye)
Venetian Romance is a fictional fragrance which has an important role in this episode. It’s Penny’s signature scent, the one she wears when she meets her lover Paul (Mat Fraser).
Paul goes to a drugstore to buy it for Penny. Thanks to the screencap above we can see its bottle is actually the one of a historical and extremely popular fragrance, Evening in Paris by Bourjois. The cobalt blue bottle with the curved label began appearing in the late 1940s/early 1950s, so the choice to use it is historically accurate. A cobalt blue talcum powder bottle of the same scent can be seen on the drugstore shelf, too.
In the episode we also learn that Paul is Elsa Mars’s lover. She smells Venetian Romance on him and understands he’s having an affair with another woman.
As a revenge, she badly wounds Paul: she straps him to a bullseye wheel and stabs him on purpose. Penny arrives to the circus and finds Paul fighting for his life. Elsa immediately realizes she’s the one Paul is having an affair with. “Speaking of cheap perfume” conveys her contempt for Penny , but also her envy for the star-crossed lovers.
My Mad Fat Diary S02E06 (Not I: Part 1)
There are bottles of Britney Spears Fantasy and Tom Ford For Men on Chloe’s desk. This is another example of historical inaccuracy ! The tv show is set in the 1990s, but Britney’s perfume was launched in 2005 and Tom Ford’s in 2007.
How to Get Away with Murder S01E04 (Let’s Get to Scooping)
There are a Tocca perfume and Arbonne Perfecting liquid foundation on Annalise Keating’s dressing table.
Arrested Development S01E18 (Justice Is Blind)
Tobias (David Cross) tries some perfumes in Maggie’s bathroom, among which an Annick Goutal one.
American Horror Story S04E01 (Monsters Among Us)
The unique tassel box of Caron Nuit de Noël can be seen on the dressing table of Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange).
The oriental floral fragrance, created by Ernest Daltroff and launched in 1922, is mentioned in Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh and was among Marilyn Monroe’s favourite scents.
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