A striped round box can be seen in Maria Callas’ medicine cabinet.
Later in the film, we get a beautiful shot from above which shows the box contains face powder.
It’s Polvo Chela, an Argentinian cosmetic from the 1920s.
Maria (2024)
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Maria (2024)
I was looking forward to watching the latest Pablo Larraín film documenting the last days in the life of Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie) because I *knew* (hoped) some interesting beauty products were in it and I was not disappointed.
The first product I spotted in the scene where Maria is sitting at her vanity is a white jar by Guerlain containing skincare. The exact product is unclear (it could be the Crème Stabilisante, shown in the 1975 advert above, the Collagena or the Crème Magistrale), but the choice is historically accurate, because this packaging was marketed in the mid/late 1970s.
Next, there’s a Dior amphora bottle, originally designed by Fernand Guéry-Colas. This bottle housed different Dior fragrances (Miss Dior, Diorissimo and Diorama), so once again it’s unclear which fragrance sits on la Divina’s vanity.
I was surprised to see a massive flacon chauve souris containing the Guerlain classic Shalimar, a fragrance created in 1925 by Jacques Guerlain. According to online reports, Maria Callas used to wear Chanel No. 5 and Revillon Detchema, but there’s nothing that can beat the impressive presence of this bottle on a film set, so I totally approve of this choice.
Another surprising presence is a box of Madame Rochas, a white floral fragrance created by Guy Robert and launched in 1960. It may not be accurate, if we assume that Callas never wore it, but it surely looks good on her vanity.
Later in the film, Maria sits at another vanity. There’s another flacon chauve souris on it but there’s also a Guerlain zigzag box, first introduced in 1967. Reading the front label is impossible, so its content is unknown.
Jackie (2016)
There are two Nina Ricci perfumes on Jackie Kennedy’s dressing table in her bedroom at the White House. On the left there’s L’air du temps, created by Francis Fabron and launched after the WWII, in 1948. On the right there’s Coeur Joie, a white floral perfume, created by Germaine Cellier and launched in 1946; the cut-out heart-shaped bottle was designed by Marc Lalique.
Thanks to PaleBlueMoon for the L’air du temps id.
Jackie (2016)
There are four Guerlain perfumes in Jackie Kennedy’s bathroom at the White House.
From left to right: the flacon bouchon coeur of Mitsouko, the flacon rayonnant of Vol de Nuit, a flacon abeille and the flacon chauve souris for Shalimar.
Next to them, a bottle of Bal à Versailles by Jean Desprez can be seen.
I’m sorry to say that the choice of the bottles is lazy and inaccurate. Take Mitsouko, for example: the spray version of this bottle came out in 1995, not in the 1960s. The same can be said for the flacon abeille, a spray version of which was launched in 1992. Why didn’t the prop master use original bottles? Such a disappointment for an Oscar-nominated film!
Thanks to my Instagram friend Mustapha for the id.
Jackie (2016)
There’s a bottle of Guerlain Jicky on Jackie Kennedy’s dressing table in her bedroom at the White House. This is the flacon quadrilobe with the etiquette laurier, first created in 1908 for the perfume Rue de la Paix.
Jackie (2016)
While Jacqueline and John Kennedy are flying to Dallas on the Air Force One, the First Lady puts her lipstick on. In this scene, a tube of Marvis toothpaste in Classic Strong Mint can be seen in a glass by the washbasin.
On the way back to Washington D. C., another scene is set in the presidential plane’s restroom: Jackie is washing her husband’s blood off her face. In this case, a bottle of Guerlain Vetiver can be seen on the countertop on the right. This perfume, created by Jean-Paul Guerlain and launched in 1959, is here shown in the “travel bottle” with silver metal cap and black rim.
Thanks to my Instagram friend Mustapha for the id.
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