There’s a red nail polish by Christian Dior on Ai’s table.
Thanks to Alessandra for submitting this post.
Topāzu (1992)
A casa nostra (2006)
There’s an empty bottle of Acqua di Giò by Giorgio Armani on a counter in Elodie’s hotel bathroom. This is the original bottle of the fruity floral fragrance created by Edouard Fléchier and launched in 1995.
One of my fondest memories from that decade: I have personally never worn it but my sister did and she loved it.
On the same counter there’s also a bottle of Tommy by Tommy Hilfiger, a citrus aromatic fragrance created by Annie Buzantian and Alberto Morillas and launched in 1995.
Thanks to LePetitCivet for the Tommy id.
The Crown S02E05 (Marionettes)
In 1956 Queen Elizabeth II (Claire Foy) gets a haircut in her bedroom. She has two small round tables near her, and on one of them there are two interesting bottles. Both are Penhaligon’s perfumes.
The bottle with dark blue ribbon is the now sadly discontinued Cornubia, a luscious white floral fragrance first launched in 1910 with the name Cornubia Bouquet and re-launched in 1995.
The dark red ribbon marks a legendary fragrance by Penhaligon’s – Hammam Bouquet. This amber woody scent, created by William Penhaligon, was first launched in 1872. Although heavily reformulated, this is still available on the market.
It’s interesting to notice that Hammam Bouquet appears in an episode from Season 1 in the bathroom of the Duke of Windsor – a detail which connects the two members of the Royal Family, at least in the fictional version of their lives.
I found no evidence that Elizabeth II has ever worn these two fragrances. Most rumours point towards something very different – Floris White Rose (which she probably wore on her wedding day) and Guerlain L’Heure Bleue.
The Dropout E08 (Lizzy)
Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) uses Lancôme Le Lip Liner pencil to line her lips.
Thanks to Alessandra for submitting this post.
The Dropout E03 (Green Juice)
On the left side of Elizabeth’s bathroom counter there are two products by Chanel – the Dimensions de Chanel mascara and Allure Sensuelle, an amber floral fragrance created by Jacques Polge and launched in 2005.
Thanks to Alessandra for submitting this post.
Deux moi (2019)
Mélanie (Ana Girardot) has two Dr. Hauschka products on her bathroom shelf: the tallest bottle is the soothing cleansing milk, while the small one is the revitalizing day lotion.
Senior Year (2022)
Stephanie (Rebel Wilson) is applying Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Diamonds glittering lipstick in Pillow Talk.
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
There are two Avon bottles on the carpeted floor of the Lisbon sisters’ bedroom. Both of them are animal-shaped and in both cases it’s impossible to tell what fragrance they contain: as I have written many times, Avon used the same bottles for different fragrances.
One has the shape of a unicorn, whose spiraling horn serves as stopper.
The second bottle has the shape of a swan; in this case the stopper is a gold metal ball. This specific bottle contains Sweet Honesty cologne.
Thanks Peter (a reader of this blog) for the unicorn id.
Senior Year (2022)
For someone like Stephanie, who wakes up at 37 from a 20-year coma, wearing Calvin Klein CK One makes perfect sense. This fragrance, created by Alberto Morillas and Harry Fremont and launched in 1994, will be forever linked to the the 1990s, an olfactory symbol of the decade in which “clean”, cool and unisex scents took the market by storm.
World Wide Aura 