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So haveGugu Mbatha-Raw,Emma Stone, andPenelope Cruz.
“It just hits you in such a primal, deep place.”
To say scent is “primal” is not hyperbole.
Jessica Chastainalso relies on the technique.
To help Jessica Chastain transform intoThe Help’s Celia Foote, a 1960s-era Marilyn Monroe lookalike, Chastain wore Monroe’s favorite perfume, Chanel No. 5.
To play the CIA analyst Maya inZero Dark Thirty,she went with a smoky, mysterious oud.
“Celia Foote [inThe Help] was Chanel No.
Marilyn Monroe only woreChanel No.
5to bed, so I thought, Oh, this is perfect,” Chastainhas toldAllure.
(Foote bears a striking resemblance to Monroe.)
“Perfume says a lot about you before you even say anything about yourself.”
Cafe Rose always made me feel lavish, elegant, and a little bit naughty."
That’s where perfumers come in.
“Honestly, you wouldn’t want to smell it,” she says.
“It’s very personal, the way the molecules react with skin,” she says.
Linney discovered this on the set of the 2016 filmGenius,also starring Jude Law as novelist Thomas Wolfe.
“It was very subtle, so I was like, ‘What is going on?’
My experience being around him, it was visceral.”
“It’s a ghost through your whole body.”
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