Zoe Valdes (Heather McComb) keeps a giant bottle of Chanel no. 5 perfume on her desk.
Bonus read: an overview of the Chanel accessories and costume jewellery seen in the film. In the late 1980s Sofia Coppola wasn’t a director yet, but she worked on this film: she curated the costume and wardrobe department, wrote the screenplay with her father and designed the main titles.
‘Shley Osgoode (Andrea Bowen) getting ready for the prom. She’s using a MAC Antiquitease: Royal Assets eyeshadow palette in Warm Eyes.
Monica (Frances O’ Connor) and Henry Swinton (Sam Robards) are getting ready to go to a party. She’s just worn her favourite perfume, which her husband loves.
David (Haley Joel Osment), a highly advanced robotic boy who’s staying with them, desperately wants to be loved: for this reason, he wears Monica’s perfume.
Unfortunately, he’s used all her Chanel Coco perfume, which is very hard to find in the future envisioned in the film.
Marc Almond shared this picture of his dressing table some months ago. He was having sore throat issues, so there are some throat pastilles, too.
I can see UltraDex recalcifying and whitening toothpaste, No7 Beautiful Skin cleansing balm, Moroccanoil molding cream, Redken Wax Blast 10 styling hairspray and Vaseline Lip Therapy petroleum jelly balm.
There’s a tube of Mollé brushless shaving cream on Paul Kemp’s bathroom shelf.
When Comandante Carotenuto (Vittorio De Sica) first meets Donna Sofia “‘a Smargiassa” (Sofia Loren), he comments on her perfume. “What a wonderful perfume! Notti d’oriente?”, he muses. “No, no. Lavanda Cannavale,” she replies.
There’s a contrast between the two fragrances: Notti d’oriente is a fictional perfume, a synonym for respectability, despite its exotic and seductive name; on the other hand, Lavanda Cannavale is a real perfume which stands for something common, not refined. Later in the story, Carotenuto will ask Donna Violante (Lea Padovani) the same question; it will come out that she is the one wearing Notti d’oriente.
Thanks to my friend Rocco for this id.
Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) finds a Maybelline Expert Eyes icy blue eyeshadow in the bathroom of Mr. Grey’s office, left there by his paralegal. This packaging is from the late 1990s.
Blair (Leighton Meester) steals a bottle of Chanel no. 5 perfume from a desk at W offices..
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