Lisa (Regina Hall) has several beauty products on a mirrored shelf; among them there is a tube of Gold Bond Ultimate cream and a bottle of Queen Helene cocoa butter hand and body lotion.
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The lipstick that Rachel (Emily Blunt) uses is L’Oreal Color Riche in #752 Classic Wine. The name of this colour is tragically ironic, because this character is an alcoholic.
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There’s a Christian Dior houndstooth splash bottle on Helen’s vanity, but unfortunately the front label is never clearly visible. It looks white with a touch of pink, but it could be just a lighting trick. In any case, this bottle was used to contain eaux de toilette and eaux de cologne, so many possibilities open up. I think we should follow one lead, though: what vintage Dior perfume could appeal to an elegant working girl like Helen? We don’t know a lot about her background, so this bottle could be something she received from her mother or grandmother, or she could have bought it for herself. I personally think she would wear a classic, so either Diorissimo or Miss Dior.
There’s another classic product on the vanity – a Chanel lipstick.
And what about the blue glass bottles (four of them!)? They remind me of Neal Yard’s products (the film is set in London, so it would be a logical choice), but I found no evidence the brand used these bottles in the 1990s.
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Lily is at a spa with her mother and she’s getting a pedicure. The pedicurist (which she imagines being her stepfather) uses an OPI nail polish in a pale pink shade.
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There are some skincare products in Peach Salinger’s bathroom. The brownish bottle with gold accents is Clarins Double Serum, while the smaller blue bottle is Booster Repair, again by Clarins.
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Lenny Bruce (Dustin Hoffman) has a wicker bottle of St. Johns Bay Rum after shave in his dressing room.
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There’s Barbasol sensitive skin shaving cream in Payton’s shower.
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There’s an eau de cologne by Officina Profumo Santa Maria Novella in Astrid’s bathroom cabinet. Impossible to tell exactly what fragrance this is: the brand uses the same bottle and the same wording for most of its colognes.
On the same shelf there’s a fluted bottle: it could be an Annick Goutal perfume or one by L’Occitane (old packaging in both cases) but the bottle is without stopper, so it’s hard to tell.
Le dîner de cons (1998)
Pierre Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte) is a Parisian publisher who attends an “idiots’ dinner” every week with his posh friends: they usually invite an “idiot” and ridicule him during the dinner. The “idiot” he’s selected is François Pignon (Jacques Villeret), who works at the Finance Ministry. Pierre’s plan is disrupted by a sudden back pain which will keep him in bed; from there, comedy ensues.
The bottles on the bedside table in Pierre’s bedroom belong to his wife Christine. They are classy French fragrances, exactly what we would expect a chic bourgeois woman to wear.
The black bottle with red stopper is Joy by Jean Patou, the white floral fragrance created by Henri Almeras in 1930.
The tall bottle is a perfume by L’Artisan Parfumeur. This is one of the first bottle designs of the French brand: it’s not clear if it’s the very first (8-side bottle) or a more recent version (7-side bottle). We know it’s an old bottle also because the gold stopper is round and not geometric. The front label is pink and only one perfume with this packaging was released before the film: Drôle de Rose. Created by Olivia Giacobetti, it was launched in 1996.
Thanks to concepteaux for submitting this post.
