The illustration Patricia is working on is very interesting. It advertises a fictional fragrance, Senso. A fragrance with the same name already exists, though.
Created by Jacques Polge and launched in 1987, Senso by Emanuel Ungaro is an amber floral fragrance. It was originally housed in a fluted bottle decorated by a cord with tassels. Nastassja Kinski was the testimonial.
The bottle the woman in Patricia’s illustration is holding exists in real life, too. It’s a flacon montre by Guerlain. Considering the front disk is black, the fragrance it is supposed to contain is Liu eau de cologne, a floral green creation by Jacques Guerlain launched in 1929.
Even if I understand the creative effort behind the illustration, I wonder why they mixed elements belonging to real fragrances, instead of creating a completely new (and properly fictional) one.
Linnet Ridgeway’s bedroom/boudoir is lavishly furnished in white and decorated with colorful glass, mirrors and marble. Several French perfumes are sitting on her vanity, a natural extension of her flawless style.
The first bottle that has caught my attention is the Lanvin boule on the left. It’s unclear what perfume it contained, because the French maison used the same bottle for two different perfumes, Arpege (created by Andre Fraysse in 1927) and My Sin (called Mon Péché in French, created by the mysterious Madame Zed in 1924). The film is set in the 1930s, so it’s plausible for both to sit on that vanity.
The same thing can be said for the black bottle on the right, containing Lanvin talcum powder. It could be Arpege or My Sin.
The Guerlain chauve souris bottle unmistakably contained Shalimar, created by Jacques Guerlain in 1925.
Guerlain Liu 
