Gilberte Doinel (Claire Maurier) keeps a Carven fragrance on her dressing table.
The first sighting of the bottle happens at the beginning of the film, when her son Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) sits at her table.
It’s impossible to tell which one (the front label isn’t visible), but four were the Carven perfumes released before 1959 – Ma Griffe in 1946, Robe d’Un Soir in 1947, Chasse Gardée in 1950 and Vert et Blanc in 1958.
All these fragrances were housed in the same bottle.
There’s a box of Carven Ma Griffe in Natalie Wood’s dressing room. The picture was taken in 1955, just after the death of James Dean, who acted with Wood in Rebel Without a Cause by Nicholas Ray.
There are two perfumes on the shelf of the bathroom where Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is shaving and Hélène (Romy Schneider) is putting mascara on. The white bottle with a floral pattern is the refillable atomizer of Guerlain Chant d’Arômes, created by Jean-Paul Guerlain and launched in 1962; the white and green striped box contains Carven Ma Griffe, a chypre floral perfume created by Jean Carles and launched in 1946.
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