Filippo Sorcinelli LAVS Extrait de Parfum

Fragrance Family:
Soft Amber

Notes:
Black Pepper, Cardamom, Jasmine, Elemi, Labdanum, Cloves, Coriander, Opoponax, Oakmoss, Rosewood, Amber, Tonka Bean

Concentration:
Extrait de Parfum

Occasion:
A meditative incense, sacred and pure, it anoints the body and leaves a trail.

Made in Italy

Lavs begins like a hymn - incense rising with a fine spiritual energy, pulling us inward, back to the centre of our gravity. It breathes deeply, each inhalation heavy and deliberate, exhaling shadows folded into freshness. It feels like something rediscovered: a relic that still glimmers with its original sanctity. As with an ancient papal vestment, gilded and timeworn, the beauty here is not merely seen but held through scent alone - a rare chance to grasp the sacred by way of the ephemeral.

At its heart, rosewood reigns: dark, polished, with its deep grained body and lingering sweet floral resonance. This noble wood is steeped in opoponax, a resin that anchors the composition with dusky gravity, against which the top notes blaze in coruscating fire. Clove delivers its medicinal heat, tempered by the rounded warmth of coriander seed, while peppercorn cuts sharp and radiant. Cardamom enters with a cooling lift, a necessary counterpoint. Around them, resins flare and dissolve - the citrus-spice flicker of elemi, the molten solar glow of labdanum - until oakmoss enters, grounding all in its solemn, mossy weight.

Through all its shifts, Lavs remains faithful to incense. It allows the incense to unfurl, to transmute, to saturate the air - leathery one moment, woody or floral the next; sacred, profane, sweet, or musky. It is not a fragrance to be dissected, but one to be surrendered to: an ancient air that engulfs, fuses, and breathes into the deepest parts of the soul.