Filippo Sorcinelli

Filippo Sorcinelli is an Italian artist, organist, and tailor whose perfumery emerged from an unusual source: in 2001 he founded LAVS, an atelier producing sacred vestments for the Catholic liturgy — including robes worn by Benedict XVI and at the opening Mass of Francis's pontificate. The first fragrance under the UNUM line appeared in 2014 as a tribute to that workshop, and the catalogue has since expanded across several lines (UNUM, NEBBIANO, EXTRAIT DE MUSIQUE). The compositions are unmistakably his: incense, beeswax, leather, smoked woods, fog. LAVS — the flagship — reads as the incense of incenses, dense with pepper, oakmoss, and labdanum. The work belongs to readers interested in fragrance with explicit liturgical, musical, or photographic reference; Sorcinelli's broader practice as a cathedral organist and visual artist is woven directly into the briefs.