Filippo Sorcinelli
Filippo Sorcinelli
79 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Freesia and peach pounce with immediate brightness, almost sparkling against your skin, whilst sandalwood creeps underneath like someone lighting a quiet fire elsewhere in the house. The opening feels deceptively conventional—fruity, fresh, greeting-card pleasant—before you sense something more structured lurking beneath.
Artemisia emerges with a green, slightly dusty presence, accompanied by aniseed's understated confectionery notes that never tip toward candy. The powdery character intensifies here, transforming the floral heart into something resembling pressed flowers sealed beneath parchment, abstract and gently unsettling.
Cashmere wood takes the lead, its soft, almost woolly warmth enveloping the remaining traces of aniseed and a vanilla that feels more like a whisper than an anchor. Musk and amber settle into a skin-scent haze, tender and intimately close, asking rather than demanding attention.
Rosa Nigra operates as a gentle paradox—a dark rose that refuses to perform darkness. The opening volley of freesia and peach arrives almost apologetically, fruity and breezy, before sandalwood's creamy undertone begins to suggest something more cerebral beneath the cheerfulness. This is where Sorcinelli's vision becomes apparent: rather than a gothic floral, you're experiencing a rose filtered through powder and soft woods, the kind of scent that feels simultaneously airy and weighted.
The heart reveals artemisia's green, slightly bitter herbaceousness playing counterpoint to aniseed's subtle liquorice whisper—an unusual pairing that prevents Rosa Nigra from ever settling into conventional floral territory. There's something faintly medicinal here, a quality that stops short of perfumery's typical sweetness. The powdery accord (88%) isn't the grandmotherly talcum of vintage fragrances but rather a diffuse softness, as if the rose itself has been dusted with something like pulverised cashmere.
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