Fragrance maestra Ann Gottleib must have a passport the size of a Die Meistersinger manuscript, because when she's not consulting/signing her name to famous perfumes (such as Calvin Klein’s Obsession and Eternity, Marc Jacobs’ Lola and Dior's J’adore), she's following the fragrance chain from plants to labs to flacons. After the search for vetiver in Haiti, patchouli in Borneo, sandalwood in India and roses in Morocco, her latest adventure brought her to Madagascar and Uganda for vanilla.
A good friend of Renée Fleming, the NYC-based scent diva was one of the talented noses behind Fleming's Coty Inc. fragrance, La Voce, a "floriental" juice that launched in 2008.