The White Lotus S02E02 (Italian Dream)

Ethan is having a shower and Harper (Audrey Plaza) starts a conversation about Cameron and Daphne, the couple they’re spending their holiday with.

On the marble counter we can see a bottle of Erno Laszlo VTM micro-essence.

There’s also a pump bottle of Clarins gentle renewing cleansing mousse and, half hidden behind it, Clarins Double Serum Eye.

The White Lotus S02E01 (Ciao)

Harper (Audrey Plaza) and her husband Ethan have lots of toiletries in their marble hotel bathroom in Taormina.

These are from Ethan’s toiletry bag – Kiehl’s Facial Fuel energizing moisture treatment and face wash, and Nivea Men Sensitive shave gel.

The blue pump bottle by Ortigia (courtesy of the hotel) contains Sandalo bath and shower gel.

The couple uses Colgate Max Fresh Cooling Crystals toothpaste.

Another Ortigia product in the bathroom is the Zagara room essence.

The third Ortigia product seen in this scene is the Sandalo liquid soap in a beautiful blue glass pump bottle.

Harper’s products include Clarins hydrating gentle foaming cleanser.

There are also a couple of MAC compacts.

Another Clarins product she uses is Double Serum Eye global age control concentrate.

There’s also a bottle of Erno Laszlo VTM micro-essence.

Just like Ethan, she has several Kiehl’s skincare products. The blue bottle contains Midnight Recovery Concentrate face oil.

The aqua blue jar contains another Clarins product – Hydra-Essentiel rich cream.

The two jars on the far right side of the marble counter are Kiehl’s products – Midnight Recovery omega-rich cloud cream and cilantro & orange extract pollutant defending masque.

Body Double (1984)

In one of the most dramatic scenes of the film Gloria (Deborah Shelton) is attacked in her own room by the “Indian”, a disfigured man.

When one watches this scene, all the attention is focused on the horrific violent act in it, certainly not on the furniture and objects in Gloria’s bedroom. But this is one of my favourite films ever: I have watched it a lot of times, so at a certain point my attention shifted to other details in the scene. That’s why I have been able to identify three of the bottles on the dresser. All of them refer to one fragrance – Arpége by Lanvin.

The black bottle with gold-accented stopper is the refillable atomiser.

The tall bottle with square black stopper contains Arpége Eau de Lanvin.

Last, the round bottle with black stopper contains the bath oil.

It’s clear Arpége is Gloria’s favourite fragrance – she keeps three different versions on her dresser. This floral aldehyde perfume was created by Paul Vacher and Andre Fraysse and launched in 1927.

Ricordi? (2018)

The male protagonist of the film (Luca Marinelli) goes to a perfume shop looking for a fragrance that reminds him of his past. He’s very upset, desperate to find it but he doesn’t know its name or if it actually exists.

There are some interesting bottles on a round table in the shop.

One of them is an Etro eau de toilette. Impossible to be more specific because the front label is not shown.

There are two Annick Goutal bottles, too, around which a mystery lies. Are they Mandragore or Mandragore Pourpre? I think they’re part of the Mandragore line but the light hitting them could make the darker glass of the Pourpre line look different. Both fragrances were launched in 2009, well before the release of the film, so it’s plausible for both of them to appear in this scene.

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

A Nina Ricci Lalique classic flacon can be seen on Mameha’s dressing table. Even if there’s no way to know the exact perfume it contained, we can say it’s a historically inaccurate choice: the first Nina Ricci fragrance – Coeur Jolie – was launched in 1946 and the worldwide famous L’air du Temps in 1948. The scene above is set well before those years.

Moreover, this particular splash bottle with octagonal stopper appeared on the market in 1968 – another reason why it looks absolutely out of place on the dressing table of a Kyoto geisha in the 1930s/early 1940.

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