“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.
Jussi & Arepo, since we are all being naughty children here, let me recommend Renee’s new DVD Arabella (which our hostess is herself advertising here). Whether you like the modern production or not–and I have some reservations–her singing is truly glorious, most especially in the final scene. With all respect Jussi, if you can’t understand her words here, I’d say the problem is yours rather than hers. The DVD also introduces (to me at least) a terrific young voice, Julie Kleiter, who sings Zdenka wonderfully. Enjoy, just don’t tell anyone I told you!!
No. 34, are you really under the impression that La Cieca is the one who keeps bringing the subject of Renée up? Where do you live?
We are assaulted with “how Renée looks,” “what Renée wears,” “how Renée smells” with such unrelenting regularity that it would be a dereliction of duty on the part of our Doyenne (something quite impossible to imagine) not to react to it here in the Opera Zine of Record.
We are all free to skip threads we don’t find to be to our taste, you know. Just as I skip her performances. But she is thrust before us whatever we may wish were the case.
Now I await the creation of eau de “Zinka” or ‘Alagna” so I can reek of them. I hope the stuff is cheaper than La Voce.
Lord love a duck, I hadn’t thought about that old joke since my college days in the 70s:
Diva A: “Dahling, I love your new cologne; what’s it called? Diva B: “Come to Me.”
Diva A: Well, it sure doesn’t smell like *come* to me….”