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Rocketman (2019)

Elton John’s dressing table is very busy, but some perfume bottles stand out.

The round bottle on the left is a factice of Worth Je Reviens eau de cologne.

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Next to it, there’s a real (and I mean REAL) mystery. The black label reads “Vespertine”: this happens to be a fictional perfume which made its appearance in the 5th season of the British TV show Endeavour. This cross-over (a fictional perfume appearing in a motion picture which apparently has no relation with the primary source) is kind of crazy, right? “The prop master must have been the same,” was my first thought, but IMDb didn’t give me any evidence, so my question is still on: how did Fenix Vespertine end up on Elton John’s dressing table???

Endeavour S05E05 (Quartet)

endeavourS05E05_bornunicornVespertine is the name of the latest perfume created by Sebastian Fenix. It’s a fictional perfume, but there’s more to it. The yellow flower on the label is reminiscent of the datura flower in bloom. Not coincidentally, datura is a vespertine flower, meaning that it blooms in the evening. Furthermore, it’s a poisonous flowering plant, a nod to the shady perfumer who created the aforementioned fragrance.