There are several interesting items in Paul and Nelly’s bathroom.
On the glass shelf below the mirror there’s a flacon bouchon coeur by Guerlain. Reading the front sticker is impossible, but the bottle could house Mitsouko, L’Heure Bleue or Fol Arôme, the three fragrances this ground glass flacon was designed for in 1910.
On the same shelf there’s a can of Elnett hairspray.
On the bath tub shelf there’s a bottle of L’Oreal Obao bubble bath.
Thanks to Cherry for submitting this post.
Several scenes set in Paul and Nelly’s bedroom reveal that the woman is a fragrance lover. On a dresser by the bathroom door we can see two Guerlain bottles.
One is the flacon chauve souris of Shalimar, a fragrance created by Jacques Guerlain and launched in 1925.
The other is a flacon bouchon coeur, possibly containing Mitsouko, L’Heure Bleue or Fol Arôme. The same bottle can be seen in the couple’s bathroom.
Other two fragrance bottles sit on Nelly’s vanity.
The bottle with white stopper on the left side of the vanity is Clarins Eau Dynamisante, an aromatic citrus fragrance created by Jacques Courtin-Clarins and launched in 1987.
Next to it there’s a bottle of Rochas Eau de Rochas, a citrus aromatic eau de toilette created by Nicolas Mamounas and launched in 1970.
Nelly’s passion for fragrances can be seen in the decor of the room, too: a poster of Le Galion Sortilège is displayed on the wall behind the vanity. This 1954 advert was created by the illustrator Claude Maurel.
Marlene Dietrich worked just once with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: it happened in 1944 for Kismet by William Dieterle, an Arabian-Nights extravaganza set when “when old Baghdad was new and shiny”. The picture above was taken at the time.
There are many beauty products on her dressing table, but one has caught my attention: the bottle half-hidden behind the photo frame.
It’s a glorious flacon bouchon coeur by Guerlain. Designed by Raymond Guerlain in collaboration with Baccarat, it was originally created to house extraits of three fragrances by Jacques Guerlain – L’Heure Bleue (1912), Fol Arôme (1912) and Mitsouko (1919).
The front label cannot be read, so we wonder what fragrance was in the flacon. Dietrich was said to be a fan of perfumes like Bandit by Robert Piguet and Angelique Encens by Creed; the Guerlain fragrance usually mentioned among her favourites is Shalimar, traditionally housed in the flacon chauve souris. One may assume she wore Mitsouko, but I don’t agree: I personally see her wearing an evocative, comforting yet dark perfume like L’Heure Bleue.
On the far right side of the table there’s a bottle of Sea Breeze skin antiseptic.
Thanks to Kailey for submitting this post and for the Sea Breeze id.
Checking the dressing tables and vanities of celebrities is always thrilling, especially when they include lots of cosmetics or fragrance bottles. The latter is certainly the case of this 1945 portrait of the American actress and dancer Ann Miller.
Here is what I have identified. Starting from the left: there are two bottles of D’Orsay Intoxication, a chypre floral fragrance launched in 1938.
There’s also a flacon bouchon coeur by Guerlain, possibly containing Mitsouko, a chypre fruity fragrance by Jacques Guerlain launched in 1919.
Impossible not to spot the beautiful bottle of Schiaparelli Shocking under a glass dome. This amber floral creation by Jean Carles was launched in 1937.
Right in front of the mirror there are two flacons chauve souris by Guerlain containing Shalimar, a Jacques Guerlain creation launched in 1925.
On the same side of the table there’s Worth Je Reviens eau de cologne. The eau de toilette version of this floral aldehyde fragrance created by Maurice Blanchet was launched in 1932.
Last, we can see the fluted bottle of an eau de cologne by Jean Patou.
Thanks to Barbara for submitting this post.
There’s a Guerlain flacon bouchon coeur on Milly’s dressing table.
Reading the front label is impossible, but I guess the bottle contains Mitsouko, one of the most popular creations of the Parisian maison, released in 1919.
On the left side of the table there’s a tin bottle of Kerkoff Djer Kiss talcum.
Thanks to signorina_misteriosa11 for submitting this post and to Caroline Louise for the talcum id.
There are many generic perfume bottles on Lota’s dressing table, but there’s one which cannot be ignored.
It’s the wonderful flacon bouchon coeur by Guerlain! Designed by Raymond Guerlain in collaboration with Baccarat, it was originally created to house extraits of three fragrances by Jacques Guerlain – L’Heure Bleue (1912), Fol Arôme (1912) and Mitsouko (1919).
All of them were already on the market when the film was made, but which one was so popular in the U.S.A. to appear as a prop in a controversial [1] science fiction horror film? I would personally go with Mitsouko.
The two atomisers on the left are by DeVilbiss.
[1] The film, violent and gruesome, was heavily censored for years.
Thanks to Ramón Jurado for submitting this post and to Caroline Louise for the DeVilbiss id.
This portrait of Ava Gardner was taken in the late 1940s in the bedroom of her Nichols Canyon cottage in Los Angeles. Besides the Degas print on the wall and some framed family photos, what has caught my attention are the perfume bottles on the dresser. I have identified three of them.
One of the first bottles from the left is Lanvin Arpège extrait, with the square bakelite stopper. This fragrance was created by Paul Vacher and Andre Fraysse and launched in 1927.
There’s also a flacon bouchon coeur by Guerlain. It has been used to house several fragrances but this one is likely to be Mitsouko, one of Gardner’s favourite scents. This chypre fruity fragrance was created by Jacques Guerlain and launched in 1919.
On the far right there’s Fleurs de Rocaille by Caron. Housed in a beautiful urn-shaped bottle designed by Félicie Vanpouille, this floral aldehyde fragrance was created by Ernest Daltroff and launched in 1934.
Thanks to Barbara Pfouts for submitting this post.
I’ve always loved bathrooms and I’ve seen many beautiful ones in my life, but very few of them can equal the poetic atmosphere in Kate Moss’ bathroom in her London house. The bespoke wallpaper with anemone pattern by de Gournay is its strongest point, but charming additions are the vintage crystal chandelier from James Worrall, a Drummonds claw-foot tub and framed black-and-white photographs.
On the marble washbasin there are several products – two bath oils, one fragrance and a skincare item.
The bottles with colourful ribbons are Penhaligon’s bath oils. The one on the left is Victorian Posy, a chypre floral fragrance launched in 1979 and now sadly discontinued; the one on the right is Vanities, another discontinued fragrance.
The white jar is Cosme Decorté AQ Meliority repair cleansing cream.
The bottle with ball-shaped stopper is Balenciaga L’Essence eau de parfum, a green floral fragrance created by Olivier Polge and launched in 2011.
There are lots of bottles in the mirrored cabinets above the washbasin.
On the top shelf on the left there’s a factice bottle of Prada Infusion d’Iris eau de toilette, created by Daniela Andrier and launched in 2010.
On the middle shelf on the left there’s Fracas by Robert Piguet, created by Germaine Cellier and launched in 1948.
Lalique Songe is shown in a 2005 limited-edition bottle.
The bottle with peach pink ribbon is Penhaligon’s Ellenisia, a discontinued floral eau de parfum launched in 2005.
The massive green bottle in the mid shelf in the central section is Sommerso, a beautiful Murano glass creation by Michele Onesto.
On the bottom shelf in the central section there’s Christian Dior Dune, an amber woody fragrance created by Jean-Louis Sieuzac, Nejla Barbir and Dominique Ropion and launched in 1991.
On the same shelf there are a flacon bouchon coeur by Guerlain and two bottles of Chanel No. 5 eau de parfum.
On the middle shelf on the right there are some Etro bottles, possibly Heliotrope eau de cologne (old packaging), and two fragrances by Byredo.
Thanks to Anna for the Murano glass bottle id.
Kitty (Amy Beth Hayes) and Jessie (Sai Bennett) are collecting money for the Belgian Relief Fund, an international organization that supplied food to occupied Belgium and northern France during WWI.
Their counter is basically a display for Guerlain bottles.
Many of them are flacons abeilles, first used in 1828 to house the Eau de Cologne Impériale. The classic version of this bottle have the bees simply painted in gold enamel, while those with gold front label are the flacons abeilles dorées.
There are two flacons bouchon coeur, too. The choice is historically accurate because they first appeared in 1912; too bad one of these is a spray bottle, clearly not available at the time in which the tv show is set.
Last, there’s a flacon quadrilobe, another historically accurate choice because this bottle first appeared in 1908 to house the perfume Rue de la Paix, then used for the extraits of several fragrances.
One of the most interesting scenes of the episode sees Halston (Ewan McGregor) and Elsa Peretti (Rebecca Dayan) going to Bergdorf Goodman to check how the newly-launched fragrance is doing. The sales assistant explains that it’s sold out.
There’s a huge bottle on the counter, but the prop masters have done something weird here: they put the glass stopper of the original Halston perfume on a bottle of Halston Couture, a fragrance launched in 1988 (two years before the designer’s death). The original bottle was all made of glass, while the other had accents of silver, stopper included.
This scene is not all about Halston, though: if we look behind Elsa and Halston, we can see a couple of factice flacons bouchon coeur by Guerlain. It’s impossible to know what fragrance they contain. Maybe Mitsouko?
When Halston and Elsa leave the room, we can see on a glass table a factice bottle of Guerlain Chamade, created by Jean-Paul Guerlain and launched in 1969.
Next to Chamade there’s a flacon montre of Shalimar eau de cologne, a trademark prop in many Ryan Murphy shows. The gold stopper is historically accurate because it was used between 1972 and 1979.
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