Filippo Sorcinelli LAVS Extrait de Parfum

$533⁰⁰ NZD

Size

100ml 1ml Sample

The incense of all incense fragrances. A harmonious and elevated composition, it is the first fragrance born, and remains the best seller of the collection which describes the smells and stories of the LAVS Atelier (Laboratorio Arte Vesti Sacre) of Filippo Sorcinelli. Its ingredients have been carefully chosen to reflect their symbolic significance, harmonising to become a ‘hymn to the spirit’. It evokes the infinite in the finite, purity and transcendence, calm enchantment. LAVS resembles the Latin term laud, which in this context, is to offer high praise to God. And UNUM, like unity, oneness, or unicum: a thing unique in its kind.

LAVS began its life as a scent that accompanied the papal robes of two popes, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, then transformed into the fragrance available here. With this pedigree, LAVS is a definitive liturgical fragrance. It is substantial, spacious, and evocative, resinous and woody.

The incense of incenses — labdanum, elemi, oakmoss, and rosewood rising like a spiritual hymn.

Notes

Elemi Resin Opoponax Labdanum Black Pepper Clove Coriander Cardamom Oakmoss Palisander Rosewood Amber Tonka Bean Jasmine

Wear profile

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Intensity

Best for Evening

Season Autumn · Winter

Details

Family	Soft Amber
Country	France
Perfumer	Filippo Sorcinelli
Year	2014
Concentration	Extrait de Parfum

Description

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

Editor's Notes

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.