There’s a jar of Pond’s cold cream on Mary Nolan’s dressing table.
The American actress started her career as a teenage model and Ziegfeld girl; unfortunately, she died in 1948 at 42, broke, depressed and almost forgotten.
Endeavour S01E01 (Girl)
Margaret Bell (Fiona Ryan) uses an Estee Lauder pale pink lipstick, with the trademark gold ribbed case.
American Gangster
Scream S02E06 (Jeepers Creepers)
There’s a bottle of Hask mint almond oil root-thickening spray on Brooke’s dressing table.
Thanks to Ashley Walsh, the show’s make-up department head, for the id.
What’s in Xtina’s Bags (2016)
Last March an interesting What’s In My Bag? video was posted on the YouTube channel of The Voice. The protagonist? The one and only Christina Aguilera, who opened her several bags and showed their content. The perfume she took out of her scent bag was Elizabeth Arden Untold, a fruity floral perfume created by Clement Gavarry and launched in 2013. I’m not surprised by her choice because we already knew she loves sweet/floral scents.
She took two products out of her go-to make-up bag. The first was Kevyn Aucoin Elegant lip gloss in Vizcaya, a peachy shade now discontinued.
The second was SeneGence LipSense, a long-lasting lip colour in a beautiful red shade.
Thanks to Kate for first telling me about the video and to Fragrantica users for identifying the perfume.
Mr Selfridge S02E01
A Guerlain flacon abeilles and a Caron bottle can be seen on the dressing table of Lady Mae Loxley (Katherine Kelly).
The iconic bee bottle was first introduced in 1828 for the Eau de Cologne Impériale, but was later used for colognes and eaux de toilettes, too.
Orange is the New Black S03E11 (We Can Be Heroes)
The Intern (2015)
There’s a tube of Burt’s Bees hand cream on the desk of an About the Fit employee.
Gli indifferenti (1964)
A can of Borotalco talcum powder can be seen in the bathroom where Carla (Claudia Cardinale) is getting ready. This hugely popular product was created in 1874 in Florence by the pharmacist Henry Roberts.
The Last Days of Disco (1998)
There’s a bottle of Guerlain Shalimar eau de cologne (or eau de toilette) in the pharmacy where Alice gets some medicines. Even if it’s clearly stated that the story is set in the early 1980s, lots of details (especially costumes) reveal it’s actually a 1990s film. The presence of a footless chauve souris bottle is not historically accurate: it made its appearance in 1995 (three years before the film was directed), first used for the eau de toilette, later for the eau de cologne.
This is an example of “partial inconsistency,” in the sense that the perfume in question was not on the market at the time in which the story takes place, but it was at the time in which the film was shot.
