There are several Guerlain products in Mary-Jane’s wood-lined bathroom.
The first is a box of Les Météorites pressed-powder pearls sitting on the marble sink counter.
On the wooden shelf by the bath tub there are a flacon chauve souris of Shalimar and a flacon abeilles of Eau Impériale.
There are some interesting items on a marble counter on Mary-Jane’s bathroom.
The miniature bottle on the left is Chanel 8° 5 Lotion Fraiche.
The tall cardboard box on the right contains Manetti & Roberts Borotalco, probably the most iconic talcum powder made in Italy.
In front of it, another cardboard box contains Coty Airspun loose face powder.
When the protagonist Mary-Jane visits her parents in London, we can see a very peculiar sighting – a bottle of Cacharel Anais Anais.
This fragrance, created in 1978 by Roger Pellegrino, Robert Gonnon, Paul Leger and Raymond Chaillan, was still very successful one decade later. I guess it’s the eau de toilette of choice of Mary-Jane’s mother.
Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart) is getting her hair done, while the Maysles brothers are filming her for their documentary [1].
Her hair stylist’s spray of choice is Adorn by Toni.
[1] The real documentary (A Visit with Truman Capote) doesn’t go behind the scenes of the Black and White Ball, but focuses on Truman Capote in the aftermath of the huge success of In Cold Blood.
There’s a pump bottle of Aesop Resurrection Aromatique hand wash in Francis’ bathroom.
The camera moves and reveals more products by the washbasin. All of them are by Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella.
The white bottle is a shampoo.
The white tube is the enzymatic exfoliating mask.
Last, the tall glass spray bottle contains a toning water. Judging from the writing on the label it could be rose water.
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Happy Rockefeller (Rebecca Creskoff) is having an affair with Bill Paley. His wife Babe (Naomi Watts) finds out and reveals all the details to her friend Truman Capote. She hates everything about the mistress, including her “shitty” perfume, which happens to be Hermès Calèche.
Referring to a perfume that’s still on the market as “shitty” may not be wise from a PR-point of view, but the writers of the show seem not to care. Calèche, a floral aldehyde fragrance by Guy Robert, was launched in 1961.
Babe explains what’s wrong with it (“too much sandalwood for a woman with that face”) and while doing so, she mentions one of the fragrance’s base notes, along with oakmoss, vetiver, cedar, amber and Tonka bean.
This behind-the-scene photo was taken on the set of La Visita, a 1963 film by Antonio Pietrangeli starring Milo and François Périer.
Among the several products sitting on Sandra’s dressing table I can see a bottle of Acqua distillata alle rose by Roberts, a classic rose water that’s available everywhere in Italy.
There are also several sticks of Max Factor Pan Stik cream foundation, a worldwide staple for actresses.
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While Frances (Alison Oliver) is taking a bath, we can see some toiletries behind her.
Starting from the left there’s a bottle of Aveeno almond oil blend shampoo.
Next, a bottle of Super Beauty ginger and pear bath & shower gel.
Last, a bottle of We Are Kind Natured sea salt & bergamot soothing bath soak.
This picture of Marlene Dietrich was taken on the set of Der blaue Engel, directed by Joseph Von Sternberg. The role of the provocative cabaret singer Lola-Lola would establish Dietrich as an international star: soon after the release of this film, she moved to Los Angeles, where she starred in six films directed by von Sternberg at Paramount [1].
Once in Hollywood, the reinvention of Dietrich’s look happened thanks to Max Factor, who created a very specific and dramatic look for her. When she filmed Der blaue Engel, the transformation was still to happen but Dietrich already used Max Factor products, as we can see from the round tin box sitting on her dressing table: it was Max Factor’s Supreme Face Powder.
[1] These films – Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express (1932), Blonde Venus (1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934) and The Devil Is a Woman (1935) – created the image of the glamourous femme fatale that had so much importance in Dietrich’s career.
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There are two interesting bottles on a dresser in the bedroom that Kelly (Lee Remick) shares with her younger sister Toby (Stefanie Powers).
The white bottle is the eau de cologne version of Rochas Femme, a chypre fruity fragrance created by Edmond Roudnitska and launched in 1944.
The other bottle is an eau de cologne by Lucien Lelong. Unfortunately it’s impossible to tell the exact fragrance because the label is unreadable and because the same balloon bottle was used to house several different scents.
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