UNISEX
Light • Flesh • Divine • Revelation
Before fragrance, there was light breaking through darkness.
Unico Suono emerges from Caravaggio’s three visions of Saint Matthew, canvases where flesh trembles under revelation, where shadow is as sacred as illumination. Commissioned in 1599 for the Holy Year, these works did not simply depict the divine. They confronted it.
Sorcinelli listens to that tension.
He gathers the echo of brushstroke and silence, of martyrdom and calling, and translates it into scent. Not as illustration, but as resonance, a vibration that moves between body and spirit.
Housed within a marble-like coffer and accompanied by velvet, linen, and wool with silk, Unico Suono unfolds as a triptych. Three fabrics. Three compositions. Three thresholds.
Light.
Man.
The Divine.
LA LUMIÈRE
A sudden beam across the dark. Velvet warmth stirred by contrast. Illumination born from shadow.
PEINTURE D’HOMME
The rawness of the human form. Disordered flesh. A gaze that does not look away.
LE DIVIN
A quiet unrest. A distant listening. The sacred found in longing.
“I borrow bodies and objects,” Caravaggio wrote, “to remind myself of the magic that governs the universe.” In that same magic, Sorcinelli finds a single sound, Unico Suono, where art, flesh, and faith converge.
This is not simply worn.
It is entered.
LA LUMIÉRE
SUBJECT: Civet, leather, oakmoss COUNTER-SUBJECT: Geranium, patchouli, clove TAIL: Bergamot, clary sage, artemisia
PEINTURE D'HOMME
SUBJECT: Ambrarome, oakmoss, vanilla
COUNTER-SUBJECT: Incense, cypriol, patchouli
TAIL: Carrot seed, cumin, cinnamon
LE DIVIN
SUBJECT: Cedarwood, leather, musk
COUNTER-SUBJECT: Rose, cloves, jasmine
TAIL: Bergamot, cinnamon, artemisia