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Nebbia Densa
Four materials and no filler: Filippo Sorcinelli Nebbia Densa Extrait de Parfum 50ml is a genuinely short composition, and it is written here as one rather than dressed up into something longer.
Palo santo leads and defines it. It is a resinous wood with a sweet smoke to it, dry and slightly camphorous around the edges, closer to a stick smouldering in a quiet room than to a bonfire. Musk sits immediately beneath it, warm and skin close, and softens the smoke into something you could wear in company rather than something that announces a ceremony.
Vetiver and sandalwood make the base and they pull in opposite directions in a useful way. Vetiver is dry, rooty and faintly bitter, all earth and grass left to dry out, while sandalwood is creamy, soft and rounded. Between them the finish is neither harsh nor sugary, and the palo santo smoke keeps drifting across both for hours.
There is no arc to follow here. With four materials you get the impression whole, within minutes, and then you get it for a long time, because the extrait concentration translates into persistence rather than volume. It sits close, it lasts, and it rewards patience a good deal more than it rewards attention. Filippo Sorcinelli composed this one himself.
He works from Mondolfo in the Marche, where he founded the LAVS atelier in 2001 to make liturgical vestments by hand, work that led to commissions for the Vatican including vestments for Pope Benedict XVI and for Pope Francis at his inaugural Mass in 2013. He began making perfume in 2014, and the fragrances draw on church interiors, Gothic architecture and organ music.
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