Nino (Aldo Fabrizi) wants to propose to Rita (Gina Lollobrigida) and invites her to visit Como with him. He’s dressed elegantly and his outfit includes a scented handkerchief!
The fragrance of choice is none other than Lanvin Arpège, shown above in the boule noire with raspberry stopper in an advert from 1950, year in which the film was released.
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A bottle of Chanel No. 5 eau de cologne sits on the floor of Pupe’s bedroom.
There are two interesting perfumes in Autilia’s bathroom. The tall bottle on the left is L’eau d’Issey by Issey Miyake, the floral aquatic masterpiece by Jacques Cavallier that was launched in 1992. The drop-shaped bottle on the left is a more recent product – Givenchy Ange ou Démon eau de parfum, an amber floral fragrance created by Olivier Cresp and Jean-Pierre Bethouart and launched in 2006.
Clara (Penélope Cruz) keeps a bottle of 4711 Original eau de cologne on her dressing table.
A large bottle of Chanel No. 5 eau de toilette can be seen in Pupe’s luxurious bathroom.
Another bottle of the same perfume sits on her dressing table.
The male protagonist of the film (Luca Marinelli) goes to a perfume shop looking for a fragrance that reminds him of his past. He’s very upset, desperate to find it but he doesn’t know its name or if it actually exists.
There are some interesting bottles on a round table in the shop.
One of them is an Etro eau de toilette. Impossible to be more specific because the front label is not shown.
There are two Annick Goutal bottles, too, around which a mystery lies. Are they Mandragore or Mandragore Pourpre? I think they’re part of the Mandragore line but the light hitting them could make the darker glass of the Pourpre line look different. Both fragrances were launched in 2009, well before the release of the film, so it’s plausible for both of them to appear in this scene.
There’s a splash bottle of Robert Piguet Bandit eau de toilette in Ester’s bathroom. This fragrance, launched in 1944, was created by Germaine Cellier.
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