Romy Schneider as Julia Anna Ackermann on the set of the film: she was lining her lips with a Kryolan Face Liner pencil in a nude shade.
Få meg på, for faen (2011)
How to Get Away with Murder S01E10 (Hello Raskolnikov)
There’s a bottle of Compagnie de Provence Savon de Marseille Extra Pur liquid soap (the scent is Verveine) in the Keatings’ bathroom.
Róisín Murphy’s Exploitation (2015)
You know I usually don’t cover music videos, but this sighting is too juicy not to be covered. Róisín Murphy has been one of my favourite singers since she was the frontwoman of Moloko. She started her solo career in 2005 and she’s about to release her fifth album, Hairless Toys. The first music video (and single) from the new album is Exploitation, which she wrote and directed. The Irish singer plays the role of a neurotic actress who sports a 1980s-inspired look. In one scene set in a dressing room, she’s barely able to apply her lipstick, which happens to be Tom Ford Lip Color Shine in Willful.
A New Kind of Love (1963)
Samantha Blake (Joanne Woodward) is a fashion designer who receives a make-over. A blonde wig and sexy clothes call for a sexy perfume, so two Lanvin Arpège products can be spotted on a shelf in her bedroom – a refillable spray atomizer and a talcum powder bottle.
Twilight (1998)
Jean Desprez Bal à Versailles is mentioned in a conversation between Harry Ross (Paul Newman) and the actress Catherine Ames (Susan Sarandon). He’s a private detective who’s investigating on the mysterious disappearance of Catherine’s ex husband. He knows she was at a murder scene by her scent, which happens to be the famous fragrance launched in 1962.
In Scent and Subversion Barbara Herman describes it as “the perfume version of a rock star’s retro suit: an interpretation of the past through the tripped-out psychedelic fantasies of the ’60s.” She continues: “It starts off brightly and moves into powdery sweetness. You can almost smell the smoke from dying-out beeswax candles. An hour or two into it, and Bal à Versailles is a mellow, powdery-gentle, and comforting skin scent.” According to Fragrantica, it has a citrusy/floral opening (rosemary, orange blossom, mandarin orange, cassia, jasmine, neroli, bergamot, Bulgarian rose and lemon), warm middle notes (sandalwood, patchouli, lilac, orris root, vetiver, ylang-ylang, lily-of-the-valley and leather) and woody/animalic base notes (tolu balsam, amber, musk, benzoin, civet, vanilla, cedar and resins). Not a perfume for the faint of heart!
A curiosity: no wonder that such a peculiar perfume has lots of fans. Among them, the Italian actress Valentina Cortese and Michael Jackson, who was said to have first used it thanks to Elizabeth Taylor.
Sex and the City S03E03 (The Attack of the Five Foot Ten Woman)
Mozart in the Jungle S01E03 (Silent Symphony)
Thomas Pembridge (Malcolm McDowell) wears a MAC Powerpoint eye pencil.
Later in the episode, Cynthia (Saffron Burrows) notices he’s wearing it.
La cage aux folles (1978)
Albin Mougeotte (Michel Serrault) is getting ready to become his drag queen self, Zaza Napoli. The dressing table is super-busy: I’d love to identify everything on it, but I’ve come up with a couple of perfumes only.
The first sits on the left: it’s Y, one of the first perfumes by Yves Saint Laurent. Created by Jean Amic and launched in 1964, it’s a chypre fruity fragrance opening up with a triumph of aldehydes, honeysuckle, gardenia and peach. It was advertised as the “invisible dress by Yves Saint Laurent”, made “especially for his devilishly aware clientele”. I wonder if Albin was among them.
The second sits on the right: it’s the unmistakable flacon montre of Guerlain colognes. It has the gold screw-cap stopper, which is accurate, since the film was directed in 1978. The central disk on the label is purple, so it’s Jicky.
It’s one of the historical scents by Guerlain, created in 1889: according to Fragrantica, it was one of the first perfumes created with addition of synthetic materials. The top notes include rosemary and citrus (lemon, bergamot and mandarin orange); the middle notes include tonka bean, lavender, orris root, basil and jasmine, balanced by the warm base notes of spices, leather, sandalwood, benzoin, amber, Brazilian rosewood and vanilla. This sounds just perfect for Albin’s flamboyant personality.
The Women (2008)
Dove Pro-Age daily moisturizer on Sylvie Fowler’s desk.
World Wide Aura 