Saturday Question: What perfumes would you pair with characters in books/movies/shows?

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Hello Fellow Fumies,

At APJ we have a Saturday Question. Everyone gets to chime in with an answer, chat with other responders and it’s a fun event each week. Taking sides never means taking offence and everyone keeps it respectful and light, even though we can sometimes trawl the depths.

The idea is you’ll see it on the weekend or chime in through the week. Hopefully you will come back regularly and see if anyone has responded to your comment and you can reply to them. The aim is to generate real conversation and connection even though we are scattered around the globe.

Saturday Question: What perfumes would you pair with characters in books/movies/shows?

Another stellar Brigitte Saturday Question.

Do you think “What would they wear?” while watching movies or TV? I admit to wondering, often. Then I go through my catalogue in my brain till I find the perfect fit. It’s a fun game that keeps me amused long p[ast my watching time.

I’m only going to give one recent male and female Netflix example but you feel free to go to town.

My Answer:

Maeve Wiley from Sex Education

Sex Education was so good I turned around and rewatched the whole two seasons again. It’s amazing what you pick up the second time around. Maeve Wiley (top middle) has bad girl forced upon her by peers. She’s smart, tough and takes no prisoners. Many people would buckle under the onslaught but it forces Maeve to become a diamond. Underneath the tough is a bruised heart, full of love. I like the Black Perfecto bottle. So dark, yet filled with juicy sunshine and sweet happiness for her. I think it signifies her character perfectly. Also, it’s now available widely for excellent prices, Maeve is poor so a 30ml bottle from the discount chemist would probably be her style too.

 

The Witcher

I seriously loved this series, even though I think Laura Schmidt’s direction of Henry Cavil is flawed. The Witcher is a man made by genetic interference hunter of monsters. All very fantasy fiction. It’s a rollicking good watch. My thoughts on The Witcher’s scent? Costume National has long been considered unconventional. The pack that wears it though is a clique all its own. I starts out saffron, herbs and lavender. It smells like I imagine a calling would in history. The woods, gardens, stone corridors and herbs of religious reclusion. There’s even a whiff of incense, cool, smoky and charred. It gives the image in my mind of someone born for a single minded purpose who manages to discharge their duties and then be peaceful.

My Saturday Question to you is:

What perfumes would you pair with characters in books/movies/shows?

55 thoughts on “Saturday Question: What perfumes would you pair with characters in books/movies/shows?”

  1. Yippee! Love this question!
    I will answer with one of my favorite characters from one of my favorite book series by Alexander McCall Smith. Isabel Dalhousie of The Right Attitude to Rain ( my favorite book of the series). She’s pretty, poised , sweet, kind, yet unconventional. So I would make Reglisse Noire her signature scent.

    And since I just finished binge watching Damages on Hulu , Glenn Close’s character with Hermessences Paprika Brasil. Something fiery and different from the mainstream.

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  2. And my favorite TV show of all time- Lost. Main character Dr. Jack Shepard would wear vintage Givenchy Gentleman. I had to think of a male answer to this question too!

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    • I forgot to say why!!! Jack is a character of integrity and tries his best to always do the right thing. To me this is the man who wears Givenchy Gentleman.

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      • I always think of you now when Gentleman is mentioned. I know you don’t have a signature scent but if you did that’s the one I would pick for you 😁
        And, yes!!! Watch Lost! It’s fantastic! I watched the entire series three times.

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        • watched Lost three times…………….wow. Now that you mention the topic of signature scent, I do struggle to pick only one because signature fragrance is the answer you give to the question “one fragrance you will pick if you have to live with just one fragrance your whole life”. But if I have to name my most favorite top 5 men fragrances of all time, vintage Givenchy Gentleman is def. one of them. Vintage Givenchy Gentleman also has a special place in my fragrance history as this was the very first perfume that moved me!

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          • Wow! Then definitely your “signature”! In my mind you can have a signature scent (one that you wear a lot, moves you whenever you wear it, have drained multiple bottles of, etc, etc) but still enjoy and wear other fragrances too.

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  4. Great question! Since my blog’s domain name is Scents and Sensibilities, after my favorite Jane Austen book and movie, I’m going to scent Elinor and Marianne. Marianne clearly goes for drama, so she needs a Big White Flower — but it also has to convey her essential innocence. Annick Goutal’s “Un Matin d’Orage” and its gardenia and jasmine will do! Especially since it suggests the iconic scene when Marianne gets drenched in the rain while pining after Willoughby. Elinor is my favorite of the two sisters (and Emma Thompson, who plays Elinor, is one of my favorite actors). Elinor gets Chanel’s Cristalle (vintage, of course!). Clear, crisp, but with an inner tenderness combined with depth and resilience. The epitome of the saying “Still waters run deep.”

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  5. Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, Musc Ravageur. Dirty-looking and unkempt with an air of mischief, manly but camp at the same time. And could be dangerous if need be.

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    • Love this!!!
      But I will tell you that when I met Mr Marzipan at a country western club in Manhattan he was wearing Drakkar Noir. I had no idea. It smelled so damn good on him…. warm, balsamic, vanilla….super sexy. And he only bought the bottle because he overheard two women say that it made them weak in the knees whenever they smelled it on a man LOL 🤣

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      • I’d love to get a whiff of it again, as it was back in the day. It definitely had that something. An ex of mine wore it too.

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  7. For a Southern Belle, Scarlett O’Hara, a magnolia perfume.
    Bulgari Irina which has magnolia and Jasmin .
    Bulgari Desiria
    Both beautiful bottles.
    F. Malle Eau de magnolia

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  8. My favorite books are The Chronicles of Narnia. I wanted Turkish Delight before I knew what it was (and don’t actually like it after all). But, I would scent Edmund with a fragrance on my want list that I can’t get because they don’t ship outside of Australia, of all places!!! So, it seems fitting. Fleurage Turkish Delight for Edmund.

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  9. Neil Caffrey in White Collar could wear L’Instant de Guerlain pour Homme as his style is quite retro. Wouldn’t work with young men who dress like kids.

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  10. A question very close to my heart! In Scent of Mystery (1960), Hollywood feature film produced with the one and only true ‘Smell-O-Vision!’ system, Elizabeth Taylor wore her very own signature fragrance, a vital clue to solving the mystery of the film! Her decoy ‘Sally Kennedy (Beverley Bentley) is finally exposed by her cheap vanilla perfume, and Denholm Elliot and Peter Lorre are led by the nose to find and save the real Sally…

    I actually have the original Scent of Mystery in my collection! Having just finished a documentary about this groundbreaking film and the Godfather of Smell-O-Vision, Swiss inventor Hans Laube, I met producer Mike Todd Jr’s daughter Susan in Santa Fe. She has the last remaining bottle. Amazing!!! still smells good (in an 80s big shoulder pads way) and according to Luca Turin is still in a condition to be analysed…

    Elizabeth Taylors’s Scent of Mystery is thought to have been created by Jean Carles (1892–1966) for Maison de Shiaparelli. Liz went on to be a pioneer of celebrity perfumes and I can’t help but wondering if this was inspired by her role in this ‘Original Stinker’?

    Not sure about etiquette here but if there is anyone that lives up Byron way, we are having a scented event at the Brunswick Picture House on March 30. Our first outing for our doco and for A Tale of Old Whiff, the cartoon supporting Scent of Mystery in 1960. Both films will be presented with a variety of scents! The ‘Scent of Mystery’ for the night will be Joy, thought to have been the inspiration/reference for Liz’s scent in the film. Should be a fun experience, especially for those with fine tuned sense of smell. I’d love to see you there and please say hello 🙂
    https://brunswickpicturehouse.com/event/in-glorious-smell-o-vision/

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  11. Patou Sira des Indes (it has banana note) for cutie minions (I am so grateful for whoever created The Minions; the world would be so boring without them) and vintage Morabito Or Black for Neo from The Matrix.

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  12. In my favorite performances category:
    Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess (Downton Abbey) – Dans Tes Bras. It smells like old school violet perfumes, which my grandmother wore, and her tongue was every bit as sharp as the Dowager’s.
    Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown (season one) – Chanel No. 19. Stiff upper lip and does not suffer fools gladly.
    Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus in Gladiator – Sécretions Magnifique. Raunchy enough to match his debauchery.
    Pierce Brosnan – in just about anything – Habit Rouge. Elegant, refined and sophisticated.
    In The Nobody Cares But Me category:
    Jennifer Lopez – Salome. Because she always looks like she’s sweating when she dances.
    Brad Pitt – Givenchy Pi. Because, come on! Both are sexy.

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  15. Super question!
    ELdO Rien for Hugh Jackmans Wolverine.
    Liev Schreibers Ray Donovan might be a Tom Ford Tuscan Leather guy, or maybe Givenchy Extreme Vetiver? Lena, his long standing and very capable assistant maybe TF Velvet Orchid.
    Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge could be a Frapin Orchid Man with Nicole Kidman wearing Chanel Mademoiselle.

    Cassieflower – have you seen The Bates Motel series? If you have – wonder if Sheriff Romero (sigh) might be a Le Labo 33 kind of guy? Or maybe Heeley Cardinal?

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  16. Here’s a few I’ve thought of over the years.

    Jay Gatsby, with his aspirations to be thought aristocratic would wear the perfume designed for the Churchills: Blenheim Bouquet.

    Harry Lime would wear Le Troisieme Homme de Caron, surely.

    Don Draper seems to me to be a guy who would favour the brands that spend big on Madison Avenue advertising. He’d shave with Burma Shave in honour of countless billboards around the USA, and he’d probably wear Brut(e), given the way he treats people.

    How could Tarzan not wear Jungle elephant?

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  17. I don’t watch movies much anymore however I will do my best to scent a few of my favourite characters. Mettle Streep in The English Patient would wear Caron’s En Avionics. Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi would sport Calvin Klein Dark Obsession . My third character is again Meryl Streep in The Bridges of Madison County ( the name of her character escapes me) . She is wearing something innocent and sweet . Crabtree & Evelyn Iris or Guerlain Jardin de Bagatelle

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