“this doesn’t smell like come to me…”
At long last, scent-lovers who want a perfume container that looks like the powder room chez Alberto Vilar will get their wish. The packaging for “La Voce Renée Fleming” has been unveiled!
Of course looking at anything associated with The Beautiful Voice is only half the fun. Naturally everyone wants to know exactly how “Renée Fleming” smells. Well, wonder no more:
The top notes introduce aromas of passion fruit and mushroom sort Tuber magnatum (white truffle). The heart encompasses jasmine and lily of the valley, while the base notes include chocolate mousse and accords of ebony.
“La Voce Renée Fleming” will retail for $200 per 1.7 ounce bottle, with profits (when, as and if) going to the Metropolitan Opera.
“Discovering that music and fragrance have harmony and even individual notes in common has taken me on a delightful journey. How wonderful then, that Coty is enabling the Metropolitan Opera to benefit, combining luxurious scent and sound,” commented Fleming.
You know, that description — complete with ebony, chocolate mousse, white truffles and lily of the valley — is exactly what I said when I heard her sing Lucrezia Borgia. With just a hint of burnt almonds behind it all, when she was caterwauling the coloratura in the final cabaletta.
It reminds me of the box holding the vial of magic potion from the movie “Death Becomes Her”. It comes complete with a little brooch, just like in the movie.
I wouldn’t wear it, but if it’ll make me immortal I’ll drink a gallon of the stuff, hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Thank you jatm2063… that will be $15,000.00. Will that be cash or credit?
“Base” notes???
I have to echo a previous comment: This is a joke, right?
It looks like the box that King Marke steps out of in the Met’s production of “Tristan und Isolde”.
Shall we talk about bad taste???? or shall we discuss the packaging of this abomination?
Yes Kashania you are right- this is a joke. No one’s actually smelled the perfume yet- and the bottle and presentation looks interesting if not beautiful… but we won’t let that stand in the way….
I have to say it couldn’t be worse than the Pavarotti one I was given…I keep it in the car and use it as a car spray.
If anyone would like to take a break from Fleming bashing, Sieglinde has just updated the Met Futures page. It seems that Gheorghiu is now out of the Tosca in 2010. Surprise!
http://balconybox.blogspot.com/2008/07/met-futures-just-updated.html
“the French Don Carlos switched (for now) to the Italian Don Carlo, this time with Angela Marambio as Elisabetta and Lorin Maazel as conductor (instead of Poplavskaya and Pappano, respectively”
This gives a pretty good idea of how musical values are going to be in the Gelb years…