There are several beauty products on José Garcia’s dressing table.
From left to right: a spray can of Doliderm spray thermal water.
Two bottles of Face and Body foundation by MAC.
A tube of Sothys Gommage Sublimateur Silhouette exfoliant.
A pump bottle of Sothys Lait Démaquillant Vitalité cleansing milk.
Impossible to read the front label, but it’s definitely a jar of Sothys face cream, possibly Crème Jeunesse Restructurante face cream.
Thanks to Scentimentalist for submitting this post.
There’s the unmistakable blue, silver and black bottle of Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche on the washbasin. This floral aldehyde fragrance was created by Michel Hy and launched in 1971.
Thanks to Alessandra for the screencap and id.
There are several skincare products in Doris’s bathroom cabinet.
The white bottle on the left is E.l.f. mineral-infused face primer.
Next, there’s a tube of Avène Cleanance Hydra soothing cream.
The jar with silver cap is La Mer The Eye Concentrate.
The white plastic bag contains Burt’s Bees facial cleansing towelettes.
From a different angle we can also see a pump bottle of Aveeno Positively Radiant daily moisturizer.
Olivia (Jennifer Aniston) is obsessed with Résolution D-Contraxol, a Lancôme anti-age treatment. She got several samples at different department stores but they’re not enough: when she sees a full-size jar of it in the bathroom of one of her clients (she’s a maid), she doesn’t think twice and takes it home.
In the bathroom there’s also Bumble & Bumble Prep conditioning spray.
She ends up using it lavishly as a foot cream! I guess it’s the magic that happens when you get a very expensive cream for free.
There are two interesting beauty products on Lily’s mirrored vanity.
First, the trademark purple bottle of Mugler Alien, an amber woody creation by Dominique Ropion and Laurent Bruyere launched in 2005. The character is very much into space exploration and aliens, protagonists of the erotic comics she draws. So it’s not surprising to see the Alien perfume in her bedroom.
The tall bottle with orange stopper is Rimmel London Wake Me Up liquid foundation.
Thanks to Alessandra for the screencap and Alien id.
A very ordinary object – a compact – has got a relevant role in this movie. It belongs to Fran, a charming elevator operator who works at an insurance company where she has got an affair with the influential personnel director Jeff Sheldrake. This object reveals the affair to C.C. Baxter, a lonely bachelor who works at the same company.
It may be ordinary, but it has some peculiarities, for example the fleurs de lys decorations on it.
This is a compact by Volupte, an American brand established in the 1920s. The same shape of the compact and the position of the decorative elements can be seen in a mother-of-pearl version, but the one seen in the film is made of metal.
Another interesting detail is the powder puff inside the compact.
The upper side of the puff reads “Lushus”, an American brand producing deep-pile powder puffs.
Rebecca (Nina Arianda) is holding a white tube with gold accents: it’s Pat McGrath Labs Lip Fetish sheer colour balm.
Thanks to Perfume Professor‘s Jessica for the screencaps and id.
There are Bold Hold hairspray and Edge soothing aftershave on the washbasin in Helen’s bathroom.
Catharine (Theresa Russell) is the widow of a New York publishing tycoon who has apparently died of Ondine’s curse. The death occurred while she was out on a trip: when she’s back, she’s alone in her luxury Manhattan apartment.
In a short sequence set in her bathroom we can see two interesting perfume bottles – both by Paloma Picasso.
Mon Parfum, created with perfumer Francis Bocris and launched in 1984, is a floral chypre fragrance that perfectly identifies the 1980s. Bold, complex and Mediterranean, it is housed in a fascinating round bottle where the “core” contains the perfume. The choice of the prop master makes a lot of sense: Catherine is a multi-faceted woman who doesn’t hide her sensuality and passionate personality, so I can really see her wearing Mon Parfum.
Catherine is a wealthy woman, so the fact that she uses two versions of the same perfume is not surprising. The frosted glass bottle contains the pure perfume (extrait).
The glossy black glass bottle contains the eau de parfum.
There are other bottles on the glass shelves in Catherine’s bathroom but most of them have a decorative purpose.
The one filled with green liquid is Rochas Mystère, though.
Thanks to Jane Daly who first posted this on her Instagram account.
In 1976 Vogue US featured Elsa Peretti’s New York apartment (the one she had taken over from Halston) on its pages. The photoshoot by Horst P. Horst portrayed the Italian artist in a minimalist space and focused on details too.
In her own words, the apartment had “bare bleached white floors, mirrored walls, lemon trees, banquettes covered in white Haitian cotton, white director’s chairs, and a work table,” which also functioned for dining and making up.
The aforementioned work table can be seen in the picture above: on it there are some pieces of jewellery, beauty items and a massive bottle that would be impossible not to notice.
It’s a factice of the famous teardrop bottle Elsa designed to house the first women’s fragrance by Halston [1]. Created by Bernard Chant and launched in 1975, the perfume would soon become a best seller.
The other two perfume bottles are both by Jean Patou. They could house either Joy, the unique jasmine and rose fragrance by Henri Alméras launched in 1930, or 1000, a floral fragrance by Jean Kerleo launched in 1972. According to a reader of this blog, in a 1999 interview Elsa said she wore 1000.
Another item I’ve identified is the Lancôme white tube. I think this contained hand cream, but it could also have been a face moisturizer.
The same table and the same objects are seen from a different point of view in the picture above. Elsa was wearing a wonderful vintage kimono she had bought in San Francisco.
Here she was doing her make-up which, according to the interview, consisted in foundation, Roger & Gallet face powder, blush, brown eye pencil and mascara. The dog posing in the picture was one of her two King Charles spaniels.
Another picture featured the beautiful gold and cobalt blue bottle of Guerlain Coque d’Or. It was created by Jacques Guerlain in 1937 and dedicated to Sergej Pavlovič Djagilev, the Russian impresario who founded the Ballets Russes. For its name Guerlain took inspiration from Le Coq d’or [2], the last opera by Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov.
[1] The process of designing and making this bottle was accurately shown in the Ryan Murphy tv show Halston.
[2] In French “coque” means “shell”, while “coq” means “rooster”. The two terms are clearly related.
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