Emma McGill (Angela Lansbury) is a musical theatre actress who lives in London. She has a striking resemblance with her American cousin, Jessica Fletcher, whom she’s reunited in a complex plot of fake death.
The large plastic box on her dressing table is Chloé perfumed dusting powder. The lid of the box is decorated with the trademark calla lilies, famously featured in the eau de parfum bottle, too.
Arabella (Michaela Coel) and her friend Terry are back to Ego Death, the London bar where the protagonist’s story starts. The scene above is set in the bar toilet; right behind Arabella there’s a table with some perfume bottles on it. Unfortunately there’s not a clear shot of it, because it would have been interesting to see what perfumes were selected and made available to the customers for a quick spraying.
Two bottles (the first and second from the left) can be identified, though. The first is Dior Fahrenheit, the creation by Jean-Louis Sieuzac and Michel Almairac that has become a unisex favourite since its launch in 1988. The second is Alien by Thierry Mugler, a white floral (jasmine!) perfume created by Laurent Bruyère and Dominique Ropion and launched in 2005.
One of the first places we are introduced to in this show is Ego Death, a London bar with a prophetical name. It’s the place where the protagonist, Arabella, and her best friend Terry (Weruche Opia) often return to in an attempt to exorcise it as a negative symbol and find closure to the traumatic event the show opens with.
In this scene, Terry is retouching her make-up by applying a MAC lipstick in a nude shade.
In the bathroom of Paul’s mother (Arsinée Khanjian) there are Eau aromatisée de roses by Christian Lenart and Toleriane dermo-cleanser by La Roche-Posay.
While at the supermarket with Djigui, Dounia (Oulaya Amamra) takes a lipstick out of a blister pack and puts it on. It’s not a product usually available at supermarkets, though: the red metallic case and the pink dots on it tell us it’s a BeneFit lip balm.
It’s the hydrating tinted lip balm BeneBalm.
While at the supermarket with Djigui, Dounia (Oulaya Amamra) checks her image on a mirror.
Some L’Oreal make-up products are on display; among them, Mega Volume Miss Manga mascara.
With the first money Dounia earns from working for Rebecca, she gets a perfume for her mother – Cartier Must de Cartier. The red box with white front label is supposed to be for the eau de parfum version, but the box seen in the film has an odd shape (it’s rectangular and not square). Is this an old packaging or a fake perfume? In any case, this gift makes the girl’s mother overjoyed.
Dounia buys some toiletries for her mother and herself.
The red bottle is Le Petit Marseillais Lait de Coton et Coquelicot (Cotton Milk and Poppy) shower cream.
The gold bottle is Revlon Natural Honey Argan Oil bath and shower gel.
There’s also Ushuaïa Polynésie Huile d’Amandier & Pétales de Néroli (almond oil and neroli petals) deodorant.
Misty (Meredith Hagner) is getting ready for Abe and Tala’s wedding. She’s applying Make Up For Ever Ultra HD pressed powder.
There are several perfumes in Debbie’s bedroom.
The first from the left is Bond No. 9 The Scent of Peace, a citrusy creation by Michel Almairac.
Then there’s Chanel Beige, from Les Exclusives de Chanel collection. It was created by Jacques Polge and presented in 2008.
The large spray bottle that resembles a ring is Boucheron pour femme by Boucheron, a fragrance created by Francis Deleamont and Jean-Pierre Bethouart and launched in 1989.
Bond No. 9 Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue is from a collection dedicated to the American pop artist. Named after the street where Warhol first lived in New York, it is housed in a bottle decorated with shoe sketches by Warhol himself. Launched in 2008, this fragrance was created by Claude Dir.
Another perfume inspired by luxury jewellery is Cartier Panthère de Cartier, housed in a beautiful faceted bottle topped by a panther (symbol of the maison). Created by Alberto Morillas, this white floral scent by launched in 1986.
TokyoMilk No. 06 Dead Sexy is a woody fragrance with vanilla notes created by Margot Elena.
The two bottles on the far right are both by Jo Malone: one – decorated with flowers – is Peony & Moss cologne; the other is an indefinite cologne.
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