Filippo Sorcinelli is an exceptional Italian artist. At 13, he became organist in the cathedrals of Fano, Rimini, San Benedetto del Tronto, and later, he took courses at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music and he was involved in prestigious music festivals in Italy.
He combined, in 2001, Art and religion, and founded a high end couture workshop for the church's clergy and, among its customers, are the popes Benedict XVI and Francis. In 2013, he co-founded "UNUM", inspired by the Gothic architecture, a collection of five perfumes, based on precious incense, mythical roses to recreate the timeless religious spirit of the Vatican.

What is your motto ?

Filippo Sorcinelli : "It’s about the raw material and the research of materials."

What is your oldest olfactive memory ?

Filippo Sorcinelli : "Firstly, the smell of incense grains that I would grind as a choirboy. Secondly, the smell of cut wood from my father’s workshop, which was next to the room where I practised the piano."

You’re an artist who works with several art forms: music, photography et cetera. How did you choose perfumery ?

Filippo Sorcinelli : "Perfume, like music, is an artistic medium that doesn’t need figurative references. Perfume is the art of smell."

You play the organ ? What is it about this instrument that fascinates you ?

Filippo Sorcinelli : "Once, when I was five, I fainted while listening to an organ. After several years of training I still love the French music of the 19th and 20th centuries but I prefer musical forms that make me feel free, without notes or partitions. I’m fond of improvisation."

What was the inspiration behind your last two creations?

Filippo Sorcinelli : "Ennui-noir is an ode to boredom. Boredom isn’t emptiness, but fullness, fertile fullness. It is humanity reflecting on its own existence. Ennui-noir is a place where the impossible becomes possible. It’s a horizontal perfume that makes you fall into a noble form of apathy that let us uncover the truth about our selves.


Symphonie-passion was born from the memory of a journey, at the foot of a church where someone is playing the organ. It’s the memory whispered by the wind by the harmonium, the spiral staircase leading to the belfry, the memory of surprising and touching notes played by the maestro. At the moment when the music starts, the sound is drenched in wood and powder. Symphonie-passion is also the title of a work that was improvised by Marcel Dupré, the famous organist born in Rouen, in 1921."