Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) puts on some perfume. The bottle she holds is clearly the flacon bouchon coeur by Raymond Guerlain. The perfume she uses is Mitsouko, launched in 1919. It was her signature scent, along with Caron Narcisse Noir.
Heathers (1989)
There’s a Coty Airspun face powder advertising on the back cover of a magazine lying on the floor in Heather Chandler’s bedroom.
This advertising campaign, starring top model Paulina Porizkova, was released in 1986.
Christina Aguilera and Matthew Rutler’s Bathroom (2015)
Christina Aguilera has never loved social networks: she rarely interacts on Twitter and hardly ever posts personal pictures on Instagram. Yesterday things drastically changed, though; she literally took over her Instagram account by posting pictures of her favourite things, many of them are fashion-related. She made my day with the picture above, shot in her bathroom. It looks like a very quiet place, with crystals, a statue of Lakshmi (the Hindu goddess of wealth), marble and mirrors. The stone tray – Matthew Rutler’s – on the left caught my attention, with many interesting men’s perfumes on it.
The black and silver metal bottle is Mont Blanc Legend, a fresh fougère fragrance created by Olivier Pescheux and launched in 2011.
The studded bottle is Valentino Uomo, a gourmand scent created by Olivier Polge and launched in 2014. It contains notes of hazelnut, chocolate, leather, roasted coffee beans, cedar, myrtle and bergamot.
There’s another studded bottle, and it’s Versace Man Eau Fraîche, a citrusy scent with woody/fresh spicy notes, created by Olivier Cresp and launched in 2006.
There’s also Yves Saint Laurent La Nuit de l’Homme, an aromatic fragrance with notes of cardamom, lavender, bergamot, caraway, cedar and vetiver, created by Anne Flipo, Pierre Wargnye and Dominique Ropion in 2009.
The tiny bottles are from the John Varvatos fragrance collection coffret: they are Classic, Vintage, Artisan and Artisan Black.
The only products I’ve been able to id on Christina’s side of the bathroom are By Night, one of her fragrances, Viktor & Rolf Bonbon and Kenzo Flower in the Air. By Night was launched in 2007: it has a strong note of vanilla, plus apple, pineapple, peach blossom, freesia, heliotrope and lily of the valley. Bonbon is a gourmand perfume, with caramel as its key note; it was created by Cecile Matton and Serge Majoullier in 2014. Last but not least, Flower in the Air, created by Alberto Morillas in 2013, is a rose scent with notes of raspberry, magnolia, gardenia, pink pepper and white musk.
Thanks to my Twitter friends Roberto, Jon and Katie who did most of the ids for me.
Pretty Little Liars S06E07 (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou)
There a bottle of Schwarzkopf OSiS+ Glamour Queen volumizing hairspray in the hotel bathroom where Ali and her dad are staying.
True Detective S02E08 (Omega Station)
Felicia (Yara Martinez) gets a box of Revlon Colorsilk hair-dye for Ani (Rachel McAdams). The exact shade is Black #10.
Across the Universe (2007)
The dressing table in Lucy Carrigan’s bedroom is pretty busy, but one bottle has caught my attention – the third from the left.
The label and the golden bow mean one thing only: Annick Goutal. It’s not the trademark fluted bottle, but the squared one, which I believe can be dated back to the late 1980s. It’s impossible to read the paper label, so we can only assume it could be Gardenia Passion (created by Goutal herself after a trip to Japan and launched in 1989), Eau d’Hadrien (the first fragrance of the French maison, created by Goutal and Francis Camail and launched in 1981) or Eau de Charlotte (created by Goutal for her step-daughter and launched in 1982). I’m not sure if other scents were released in squared bottles, though.
Hannibal S03E09 (And the Woman Clothed with the Sun…)
This conversation between Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) focuses on the sense of smell. They actually had similar conversations in the first and in the second seasons: the topic is always Will’s “atrocious after-shave”, “something with a ship on the bottle”, that is Old Spice.
This time there’s something different, though: Hannibal doesn’t know what has happened in Will’s life after their adventure at Muskrat Farm, but his exceptional sense of smell gives him an idea. “Beneath that shaving lotion” he can smell “dogs” (obviously), “pine” (Will lives in a house in the woods) and “oil”. Furthermore, he comments on the person who has possibly given him the after-shave as a gift: a child. Hannibal is right again: Will now lives with Molly and Willy, her son from a previous marriage.
The last part of the conversation is heart-breaking: he tries to uncover Will’s desire to see him again, to “get that old scent again”, but the apparent lack of reaction from Will brings out the spiteful “Why don’t you just smell yourself?”, with which Hannibal emphasizes their similarities, even if Will is not ready to admit it yet.
Carnivàle S02E02 (Alamogordo, N.M.)
A bottle of L’Aromarine Thé-Tea perfume can be seen on Hiroshi’s dressing table. Not beauty-related, but on the same table you can also see a vintage tin box of the Italian candy Pastiglie Leone.
Jem and the Holograms (2015)
The film is not out yet, but there are a couple of interesting make-up moments in the trailer. In the first, the protagonist (Aubrey Peeples) starts experimenting with hot pink on her face, using a Chanel cream blush.
The second scene is set in the protagonist’s dressing room, and sees her in a moment of rage. Among the products she throws away from the table, we can see a row of Wet n Wild Megalast nail polishes and Bumble and bumble tonic lotion.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
There’s a bottle of Vaseline moisturizer on the bedside table in Winnie and Jake’s bedroom.
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