page_title: Sorry Baby (Killing Eve)
section_title: La Villanelle perfume
hierarchical_section_title: Sorry Baby (Killing Eve) / Production / La Villanelle perfume
caption_attribution_description: English: "La Villanelle" in simple font, black on gold
context_page_description: "Sorry Baby" is the fourth episode of the BBC America television show Killing Eve. It aired on 29 April 2018 in the United States and 6 October 2018 in the United Kingdom.
  Villanelle is made to work with other people to take someone out, while Eve Polastri has her eyes on the same target.
context_section_description: At the start of the episode, Villanelle has returned Eve's stolen suitcase but packed it with luxurious fashion, including a bottle of perfume called "La Villanelle". Critics point to the "great deal of thought" and "care" that has gone into the selection, showing "intimacy" on Villanelle's part. It is also an act that reveals her name to Eve, a "perfume clue", with Eve knowing to literally chase the scent. In the episode, the perfume box is also where the note reading "Sorry Baby x" is tucked in, with one critic asking if it is "an apology or a taunt" and exploring Villanelle's psyche and intentions towards Eve; another outright calls it "a sexy way to taunt her".
  In the Codename Villanelle book, hearing the dark backstory of the perfume is how Villanelle chooses her name. Before the episode aired, another critic had written that Villanelle's name was (to the average viewer) "off-putting" because it is "a bad pun on 'villainess'" and "a name for a Bond girl", and that it was only clever if you had read the books where it is explained that the character was "inspired toward the nom de guerre [...] by the label on a decadent perfume".
  An unrelated perfume of the same name had been released in March 2018 by Belgian parfumier Kamila Aubre; Aubre said that she "noticed some unusual statistics on her website" after the episode's release but had assumed the increase in purchases would be because of a "beauty blogger" mentioning the product, having not heard of the show.
caption: The words on the perfume bottle
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