Halston’s eponymous perfume, launched in 1975, is as integral to the late designer’s legacy as his drapey dresses—although, sadly, the version of the fragrance that is on the market today ...

Within a year, the Halston fragrance was the bestselling perfume in America, and yes, upmarket specialty stores had Max Factor on their shelves. From there, cinema diverges even further from reality.

Halston, the mononymous American fashion designer whose stripped-back, body-freeing take on luxury — caftans, halter dresses and acres of Ultrasuede — was a defining look of the ’70s, ...