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Simms, you are a cover-up artist and you are a liar. I'm going to recommend to the disciplinary committee that you be expelled. He's the only party to this incident who is still worthy of calling himself a Baird man. Simms, because you know what I am going to do. Willis's testimony is not only vague, it is unsubstantiated. How could I have missed the Arpege bottles around Jayne’s bath? I love “Rock Hunter” and have seen it several times.Mr. Not sure what it was, but I’d take a guess on Chanel No. And in “Now, Voyager”, Bette Davis dabs her hair with perfume before going downstairs to see her family for the first time since her return from her trip. Other sightings: In “Leave Her to Heaven”, Gene Tierney’s character sprays herself with cologne (from a rather generic-looking bottle, so I coulnd’t identify) before throwing herself down the stairs. The last time I watched “An American in Paris”, I remember noticing one of the large clockface Guerlain bottles in the shop, and another that may have been a Lucien Lelong.

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The movie was made in 1941, and Lorre’s character Joel Cairo was quite the dandy, who would only wear the best. Now the question is, which gardenia was he wearing? I see on Basenotes that Chanel launched their Gardenia in 1925, so I’m going with that.

“Gardenia”, she says, and then shows in Peter Lorre. He sniffs it and looks at her quizzically. In “The Maltese Falcon” (yes, there was a Bogart fest on TCM), Sam Spade’s secretary enters and hands him a card. Later, she picks up the bottle and sniffs at it thoughtfully (unfortunately I didn’t recognize the bottle). In “To Have and Have Not”, Humphrey Bogart picks up a bottle from Lauren Bacall’s dresser and takes a sniff. Ha! Such a coincidence you should mention this, because I’ve recently been playing “Spot the Perfume” in movies. How did someone decide Katherine Hepburn would wear Christian Dior Miss Dior in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Why Arpège and not, say, Piguet Fracas for Jayne Mansfield? And why the heck Shalimar for Auntie Mame’s housekeeper, a White Shoulders gal if I ever saw one? I guess I’ll never know, but it keeps me scanning the tops of dressers in every movie I see.ĭo you notice perfume in movies? What bottles have you seen? Someday I’d like to talk to a Hollywood prop master tasked with choosing perfume for movies. In the movie Perfume, scent really is the star, even if the fragrances aren’t any we see on department store shelves today. In Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Lanvin Arpège should be given film credits for the bowling-ball-sized bottles rimming Jayne Mansfield’s bathtub. In American in Paris, Leslie Caron works in a perfume shop. Pause the DVD and luxuriate for a moment as you identify the different fragrances. The background of the perfume counter scene is a visual feast. In The Women (the 1939 version with Joan Crawford - the less said about the Meg Ryan version the better), Joan’s character is a perfume saleswoman. Then, of course, are movies where perfume nearly plays a supporting role. I can’t remember the plot at all, only the Mitsouko. Another mammoth bottle of Guerlain, this one looking to hold nearly a gallon of Mitsouko Eau de Cologne, adorns the background of an Italian movie. In Auntie Mame, the Rosalind Russell version, Mame gives her housekeeper a giant clock-shaped bottle of something Guerlain I suspect is Shalimar.

In Guess Who’s Coming for Dinner, two 16-ounce, houndstooth Christian Dior bottles sit on a shelf in the bathroom.

When I watch movies these days, my eyes are often fixed on the background as I look for perfume. His nostrils flared and he half-shut his eyes. Lector stood straight-backed, arms at his side, and stared at Clarice on the other side of the bars. This time, more attuned to perfume references, I chilled as Hannibal Lector met Clarice Starling for the first time. When I first saw the film, just after it came out, my fragrance wardrobe consisted of Chanel Coco and Victoria’s Secret Tranquil Breezes bubble bath. Recently I saw The Silence of the Lambs again.