Filippo Sorcinelli and Danu Seith-Fyr, Straf Bar, Milan 2018.
In deep friendship that moves beyond the mere boundaries of words, I have a connection with Filippo Sorcinelli and his company which is beyond professional and stretches into a territory that is paradoxical in quality, oscillating in the rare atmosphere between unknown yet deeply known. There are a few, in this world so saturated with new releases and marketing briefs that reach me at my core and leave their imprint as fiercely, or as tenderly than Filippo. Akin to his touch on fabric as the Atelier to The Pope, and the fingertips that grace the organ keys of the great Cathedrals and Basilicas of the world, his fragrances intrigue and invite, challenge and traverse perceptions.
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Unique and unexpected yet expected at the same time. I had first smelt the preview of but_not_today in Milan, April 2018 at Unum Apart, Straf Bar. Filippos work is indelibly etched upon me, in a way that but_not_today is a quintessence of. I was shocked and entranced, disturbed and seduced all at once, my heart rate accelerating. Pitti Fragranze Florence 2018 and I was invited to Palazzo Capponi, where Hannibal had been partly filmed, on the riverside of the Arno, for the release of Filippo Sorcinelli, but_not_today, an evening surrounded by Renaissance timelessness wrapping the long-awaited release in a sumptuous tension.
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In the Ridley Scott Film, “Hannibal’, Lecter’s first words spoken to Clarice Starling, direct and pervasive without a boundary yet well mannered, are as intimate as lovers, for by scent alone, or so it seems he knows the secrets of her body and the pulse that enlivens the flesh, he speaks in words we can hear yet there is much more conveyed in his measured speech, ‘You use Evian skin cream and sometimes you wear L’air du temps, but not today.’ Yet for me, far beyond the movie connotations lies the real reason d'etre of this fragrance, merely given a formal presence by the film culture. Voice spoken without sound, unravelling audible narrative in the Blood. A language of silent encounter and viscous adhesion
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Filippo Sorcinelli but_not_today is shocking in its entrance, beguiling and asking of me the courage to continue within its labyrinthine tracts. Communicating the diametrically opposed nature yet saturated with the tautness of intense attraction between Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling. In autonomous synergy upon skin, the notes rise in accord, the 42 notes of Blood, metallic and raw, with leather-soaked edges, mirror my own flesh and blood, the taboo entwined with the familiar, one cannot but follow its lead. The florals, Carnation and Jasmine encapsulated within 18 notes of white Lily are hedonistic and entrancing, their trails entering the pores and mounting the very corpuscles within to catapult around my body. Still the labyrinthine voice asks, ‘place one foot in front of the other,” can you hear without ears as it whispers to me in bloodborne tones, it is ouroboric in persona as it returns upon itself over and over, animalic saturated in Blood soaked Leather, florals and the Lily tempering and laying gentle steps.
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There is an ancient whisper interlaid within the formula of Fillipo Sorcinelli but_not_today, full of a Beauty we have ignored for too long and a voiceless dialogue between those who listen and decipher. Hours hence and I am still captivated, hungry for more and satiation is far away. but_not _today is not a perfume you wear, it wears you, underskin in haunting, beautiful enrapture that is so very reminiscent of the way Wine in an Oaken Barrel is in conversation and yearning for the wood and vice versa. It is a commanding exploration of corroded modes of communication. Heart-stopping in its jaw dropping intensity.
Agnieszka Ospia
Filippo Sorcinelli but_not_today is primordial yet so exalted in its beauty, seeking liquidinous proclamation on flesh, silent attraction. For the brave and the curious.
Notes: Metal, Lily, Jasmine, Leather, Castoreum, Carnation, Animal and undisclosed notes.
Danu Seith- Fyr –Senior Contributor
Sample received with gratitude from Filippo at Pitti Fragranze, Florence 2018, my nose my own
but_not_today Filippo Sorcinelli Brand, Firenze 2018 Danu Seith-Fyr
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