5 Filippo Sorcinelli Fragrances You Have Never Smelled Before
If you read our profile of Filippo Sorcinelli (the perfumer who also dresses the Pope) you know the story. Four years of Esxence. An olfactory dinner at Palazzo Visconti. Over 60 fragrances across collections most people have never heard of.
But knowing the story and knowing where to start are two different things. His catalogue is deep. It can feel overwhelming if you do not have a guide. So here are five picks matched to five different tastes. Five new doors into the same remarkable house.
For the person who appreciates craftsmanship
Christmas Night at Notre Dame. That is what this fragrance is called and that is exactly what it smells like. Incense, cold stone, candlewax, and something warm underneath that feels like a congregation breathing together in a very old building on the most important night of the year. Sorcinelli was a cathedral organist from the age of thirteen. He has spent more Christmas nights inside churches than most people spend in their living rooms. This fragrance is not a concept. It is a memory. You can feel that when you wear it. The detail is extraordinary.
For the person who is impossible to shop for
Part of his Atmosphere D'Emotion collection where each fragrance is a different intensity of weather. NEBBIA FITTA is the heaviest fog. Thick, enveloping, smoky. It genuinely feels like visibility has dropped when you smell it. Give this to someone who has everything and thinks they have smelled everything. They have not smelled this. Nobody forgets the first time they try NEBBIA FITTA.
For the person with a sense of humor
The man who dresses the Pope made a fragrance called QUICKIE AND COFFEE. That fact alone is worth the purchase. This is from his X Sé collection, the side of his work that has nothing to do with churches. It smells exactly like the name suggests. Coffee, skin, warmth, speed. Sharp in the morning, warmer by afternoon. The name will make you laugh. The fragrance will make you keep wearing it.
For the outdoors person
Also from Atmosphere D'Emotion. This is the strongest grade of the wind series. It opens sharp, green, almost aggressive and then settles into something woody and calm. It smells like being outside in weather that is actually doing something. Not a beach. Not a meadow. Actual wind. For the person who does not check the forecast before going outside.
For the person who wears all black
ENNUI_NOIR means black boredom. It wears like expensive indifference. Dark, smoky, slightly bitter, completely unbothered. If the wardrobe is monochrome and the taste runs serious, this is the fragrance. No sweetness. No compromise. Just darkness done right.
Fragrapedia Haus is one of only a handful of retailers worldwide carrying the full Filippo Sorcinelli line. Over sixty fragrances across every collection.
