(However, a polemic is allowed sometimes. And I want to preface that I wouldn't have had such a concern if I hadn't once held Mr. Sorcinelli and his
LAVS and some of his (earlier) fragrances in high regard.)
Excuse me, but now he has finally gotten on my nerves, the vain Mr. Sorcinelli with his demonstratively proclaimed pious clichés - and it seems he hardly deigns to lower himself to ordinary mortals and banal worldly matters beneath heavenly or mythical greatness anymore. The frequency with which he says "Let there be meaning-laden => purchase-triggering perfume" (... and it became purchase-triggering perfume. And S. saw that he profited well ...) far exceeds the creation speed of Elohim during the days of creation, even if the latter had irregularly included the seventh day.
A moment of pause instead of messianic continuous fragrance bliss is of course nothing for self-made Renaissance smarties like Filippangelo - "I am so beautiful, I am so great...", only unfortunately unironically. Or who else would present devotional items in the form of socks signed with his signature under the compliment-fishing motto "Respect my madness"? (Against the feeding of the collection plate, of course.) Not to mention the very, very, veeeery deeply rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition silver creepy teddy bear. (Coincidence or cipher for the golden calf?) Please: at least when naming his fragrance wrap revelation box ("Revelation Box"), there must have been a little wink involved?! Anyway: I expect the perfume "Io e Dio" or "Io, Dio" soon.
But it seems the papal phase that began with
Tu es Petrus is not yet over: this time Paul VI. has to take the hit.
The perfume name begins typically Sorcinelli, namely with a transparently mysterious profundity, here without context, meaning without the reference word for "lo" ("Chi lo vuole - Who wants it"). It is to be suspected: it does not refer to the Baron of Rembremerdeng, but to someone from the Trinity family. And bingo!, it is the Son.
The cited words of Paul VI. probably first appear as No. 268 in the collection "I 'fiammiferi' del vescovo Montini" ("The 'Matches' of Bishop Montini" - that was his pre-papal civil name), still without reference to Christmas, but with the pre-statement: "Cristo non è lontano. - Christ is not far." So the whole statement translated: "Whoever wants him = Christ will be able to rediscover him, and whoever rediscovers him must choose him. And as always: whoever truly chooses him will have his (Christ's) peace, [namely] exactly the Christmas peace."
Paul VI. probably added "La pace appunto del Natale" later. (The comma before this part of the sentence has been overlooked by Parfumo - or the Holy Spirit's aunt, who has already been perfumed by S., has blown it away from Gen 1:2.*)
Lastly, in the perfume title, of course, the humble reference to the Pope's holiness must not be missing for the sake of additional mystification.
Overall, S. obscures the immediate comprehensibility of the papal quote for the potential customer through the framework of context omission at the beginning and the special revelation-suggesting authority reference at the end, and presents himself as an initiate - consequently, one does not just buy the mundane material product, but the whole staging and may fancy oneself included in the circle of the enlightened. (But that is no different elsewhere, of course.)
Better, then, not to let oneself be fooled by a Jacob for an Esau!
And the scent?
The listed fragrance notes can be quite well traced (or one falls for their suggestion).
I initially smell incense wood (unfortunately of the fake kind, which always seems sour-dull to me). Metallic cool medium-green nose-tickling pepperiness (however, not a round grain, but a flat piece of paper that says "Pepper!") remains clearly to penetratingly present. General leather is set up in the background from the start and moves further forward as time goes on. The little rose obediently fits in.
A typical Sorcinelli incense, made with routine, but not really substantial. To me, it seems somehow inauthentic, a conglomerate of references to something greater that is not there. Instead of the (hard to catch) scent dove on the roof, a quick and sure surrogate sparrow in the bottle. And maybe S. also hopes for the grace of the gift horse...
In any case, I am not overwhelmed by the whispered holy-mystical Fascinosum and Tremendum shivers in Sorcinelli's creation. The scent would probably not even have the impact of a sopranino recorder on Jericho. We are both unimpressed.
But as Mrs. Kohelet already said: Perfume, perfume, it's all just perfume.
Top Notes 
Black pepper
Galbanum
Metal
Grapefruit
Heart Notes 
Cistus
Frankincense
Black rose
Powdery notes
Base Notes 
Leather
Java vetiver
Oakmoss
Ceesie
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