There’s a Floris moisturising bath & shower gel in the bathroom where Prime Minister Anthony Eden (Jeremy Northam) retreats to have his pill of Benzedrine for his stomach ulcer before meeting Queen Elizabeth II.
The Crown S01E10 (Gloriana)
La Boum (1980)
Poupette (Denise Grey) is the great-grandmother of the protagonist, a sort of deux-ex-machina character who helps Vic to achieve her goal – finding true love.
There are some interesting products on her dressing table. The first is a bottle of Givenchy III, a chypre floral creation by Jean François Latty and Raymond Chaillan launched in 1970.
The small pale pink pot in front of the perfume is a Bourjois blush.
There’s another perfume on the vanity: it’s Azzaro, a chypre woody fragrance created by Jean Martel and launched in 1975.
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The Dropout E01 (I’m in a Hurry)
A make-up artist applies Lancôme L’Absolu Rouge lipstick on Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried).
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Romy Schneider’s Dressing Room (1961)
In March 1961 Luchino Visconti directed a French version of the revenge play ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore by the English playwright John Ford. Staged at the Théâtre de Paris, Dommage qu’elle soit une p… starred Romy Schneider as the protagonist Annabella and her fiancé Alain Delon as Giovanni.
In these beautiful backstage pictures by Maurice Jarnoux we can take a look at what beauty products the Austrian actress used. In the shot above she was applying Pan Stik compact foundation by Max Factor.
On her dressing table there were many make-up and skincare products, among which a bottle of baby lotion by the French brand Mustela.
When it comes to the perfumes, the first I’ve noticed is a huge houndstooth bottle by Christian Dior, used for several eaux de toilette and eaux de cologne by the French maison, so it’s impossible to tell what fragrance this specific bottle contained. Furthermore, it’s quite surprising to see a Dior fragrance on her dressing table: the perfumes she usually wore were Chanel No. 5, Guerlain L’Heure Bleue [1] and – as explained by Elena Prokofeva – Tubereuse by Jean-Francois Laporte.
The second bottle is a French classic – Roger & Gallet Jean Marie Farina eau de cologne, first launched in 1806.
The third perfume sighting is not a bottle but a white box with black details. It’s a coffret set by Chanel, usually containing a selection of four parfum extraits.
[1] Several Guerlain bottles appeared in the famous portraits of Romy Schneider taken by photographer Helga Kneidl in 1973 in Paris.
Inventing Anna E09 (Dangerously Close)
A bottle of Gucci Bloom Acqua di Fiori can be seen on a table in Margaret’s walk-in closet. This eau de toilette, created by Alberto Morillas, was launched in 2018.
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This Is Us S02E02 (A Manny-Splendored Thing)
There are three bottles of Estée Lauder Youth Dew on Rebecca’s dressing table. This warm amber perfume, created by Josephine Catapano, was launched in 1953.
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Chambre 212 (2019)
There’s a bottle of Chanel No. 5 in Maria’s bathroom.
Scarface (1983)
When it comes to identifying beauty products on screen, one of the most challenging scenes ever is from the seminal film by Brian De Palma and features Elvira (Michelle Pfeiffer), the glamourous trophy wife of the protagonist. Over the years I have tried many times to give a name to the products on her vanity, with no real results. The screenshot above is from the famous Jacuzzi scene set in the Montanas’ baroque bathroom [1]: Elvira is doing her manicure while snorting cocaine.
In the set photo above we can see there are two bottles of nail polish in front of her. Both are easy to identify.
The pale pink nail polish is by Lancôme, and dates back to the late 1970s.
The pale champagne bottle is unmistakable: it’s Chanel Le Vernis nail colour, which in the 1980s had the same squared packaging with shiny black stopper it has today.
[1] In 2020 I wrote about the same scene by identifying the perfumes sitting by the Jacuzzi.
I have lost count of the people who have submitted this picture to my attention, so sorry if I can’t credit everybody. Among them there are certainly my friend Rocco and LadiesofthePast.
X (2022)
Pearl’s mirrored vanity is packed with products from her youth (the early decades of the 20th century).
Among them, a tin can of Pears’ White Precipitated Fuller’s Earth, an absorbent and deodorant powder used for the personal hygiene of babies and adults.
X (2022)
The blue nail polish Maxine (Mia Goth) is holding is by Avon. I don’t think the American brand produced this colour in 1970, so I guess the prop masters have filled a vintage bottle with modern metallic blue polish.
World Wide Aura 