With Lee Harris on the run, sieged in the Roanoke House, people are desperate to know more about her. Actor William Van Henderson (Denis O’Hare), who played Dr. Elias Cunningham in My Roanoke Nightmare, appears on the news, but he can’t say much about her. They briefly met at Paley Fest 2015: he remembers she wore Shalimar.
Ryan Murphy must be a fan of the Guerlain perfume. You may remember a character from American Horror Story: Hotel (Ramona Royale) wears it.
There are several toiletries in Dodd’s bathroom, among which a can of Gillette shaving foam and a bottle of Pepto-Bismol.
The bottle right behind the Pepto-Bismol one contains Resdan dandruff treatment.
Thanks to Jennifer for the Resdan id.
Several perfumes appear in the opening credits of the 2nd season. First of all, some bouchon coeur flacons by Guerlain and their parquet boxes, originally introduced in the early 1910s for Mitsouko, Fol Arôme and L’Heure Bleue. The perfume in the box is the dabber version, while the two sitting on the counter are spray bottles.
The red-lined box contains three perfumes by Selfridges – Fumaria Bouquet, Selene and Adne. At the time, Selfridges sold their own perfumes, but I haven’t found any information about these, so I guess they are props. All the bottles have pump atomisers.
Here’s a closer look to Selene faceted bottle.
Some bottles of Lady Primrose diamond dusting silk shakers can be seen, too.
Last but not least: some glass jars of Lady Primrose Thyrst body crème.
The last image of the opening credits show Mr. Selfridge checking his watch, ready to welcome customers. Some Caron bottles can be seen in the glass display cabinet behind him.
There’s a bottle of Rochas Madame Rochas on the washbasin in Julie Baker’s bathroom.
Robert gives Vera Chanel skincare and make-up products. She keeps some eye pencils only, which she will use to write on the walls. The skincare products are from the Précision line and include Gel Pureté, Lotion Douceur and Démaquillant Yeux Intense make-up remover.
The make-up items are Teint Innocence liquid foundation, Rouge Allure Extrait de Gloss in the shade Excés #60 and several lip and eye pencils.
There’s a lipstick, too – the classic Rouge Coco.
A bottle of Revlon nail polish can be seen on the dressing table of Maila Nurmi. This picture was taken in 1954.
Italian photographer Pierluigi Praturlon portrayed actress Carrol Baker in the 1960s.
On her dressing table two perfumes can be seen: one is a Guerlain cologne in the trademark glass flacon montre, the other is a Balmain perfume. It’s impossible to read the front label: it could be Vent Vert, but I think it’s Jolie Madame.
Thanks to Barbara Herman for the Balmain id.
When Janet Leigh (Scarlett Johansson) meets Alfred Hitchcock to discuss the role of Marion Crane in his upcoming film Psycho (1960), she focuses on the double identity of the character (a Phoenix secretary who steals $40,000 from her employer’s client).
She introduces this concept through perfumes: Marion is someone who wears an inoffensive cologne like Lenthéric Tweed in the office, but turns to something completely different when she’s with her lover Sam Loomis: her reckless and seductive self wears My Sin by Lanvin.
Tweed, launched in 1933, is a woody aromatic perfume with light spicy notes. My Sin, originally called Mon Péché, was created by Madame Zed in 1924; it’s a scent with civet, musk and aldehydes as dominant notes.
A bottle of Penhaligon’s Jubilee Bouquet can be seen on the protagonist’s dressing table. The fragrance was launched in 1977 as a homage to Queen Elizabeth II’s silver jubilee.
When the main four characters – the make-up artist Ruby (Jena Malone), the models Sarah (Abbey Lee) and Gigi (Bella Heathcote), and the newcomer Jesse (Elle Fanning) – first meet, they have a conversation about lipsticks. Gigi kicks it off by saying she loves the lip colour she’s wearing; Ruby comments on the name of the shade – Redrum [1].
Beauty addicts know this is the name of one of the most popular Velour liquid lipsticks by Jeffree Star, but Gigi is not wearing it (see the applicator: no hot pink in sight).
Ruby goes on saying women often choose to buy a lipstick “if it’s named after food or sex” and gives some examples.
The first shade name she drops is Black Honey, the most popular lipstick by Clinique, first launched in 1971.
Plum Passion is a popular name for lipsticks. Both Maybelline and L’Oreal have Plum Passion lipsticks in their collection.
The last shade she names is Peachy Keen. A product by Gerard Cosmetics comes to my mind, along with a line by the super-wicked Courtney Shayne, the protagonist of the black comedy Jawbreaker (1999) by Darren Stein.
[1] This word comes from The Shining by Stephen King.
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