
When Rodrigo (Gael García Bernal) is thrown out of his apartment, he stays at Gloria’s. While she’s taking a shower, he goes through the beauty products sitting on her dressing table. Most of them are face creams and lotions. The small purple jar on the right is the intensive 3-in-1 eye cream by Patricia Wexler M.D.



He takes one cream jar and puts some on his face. It’s another Wexler product: it could be the universal anti-aging moisturizer or the skin-brightening daily moisturizer.


On the dressing table there’s also a tube of Hada Labo Tokyo hydrating facial cleanser and four C.O. Bigelow products: Mentha smoothing body buffer in the green tube on the left, Lemon Leaf ultra-soft body butter in the jar with black lid, Lemon hand treatment and Lemon body lotion in the pump bottle on the right.
Thanks to a reader for the Hada Labo Tokyo id and to my friend Jennifer for the C.O. Bigelow ids.


















Cassandra and Rose Mortmain go to a luxury department store in London to get two fur coats their aunt Millicent left them as inheritance. Before getting to the right floor, Rose wanders in the perfume and fashion accessory department. Some Guerlain perfumes are displayed in a glass case: they are 
The selection is historically accurate: the film is set in the 1930s, a decade during which both perfumes had been released. Shalimar was launched in 1925 and Véga in 1926.
David Bowie putting his make-up in Paris in 1976. The










