Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart) is getting her hair done, while the Maysles brothers are filming her for their documentary [1].
Her hair stylist’s spray of choice is Adorn by Toni.
[1] The real documentary (A Visit with Truman Capote) doesn’t go behind the scenes of the Black and White Ball, but focuses on Truman Capote in the aftermath of the huge success of In Cold Blood.
Happy Rockefeller (Rebecca Creskoff) is having an affair with Bill Paley. His wife Babe (Naomi Watts) finds out and reveals all the details to her friend Truman Capote. She hates everything about the mistress, including her “shitty” perfume, which happens to be Hermès Calèche.
Referring to a perfume that’s still on the market as “shitty” may not be wise from a PR-point of view, but the writers of the show seem not to care. Calèche, a floral aldehyde fragrance by Guy Robert, was launched in 1961.
Babe explains what’s wrong with it (“too much sandalwood for a woman with that face”) and while doing so, she mentions one of the fragrance’s base notes, along with oakmoss, vetiver, cedar, amber and Tonka bean.
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