I tested this fragrance for the first time when something was brushed onto a test strip with the roller bottle. For weeks, it lay on my kitchen table, emanating the most heavenly, crypt-like patchouli I have ever smelled. Absolute treasure alert, it had definitely lodged itself in my mind, and I fluttered around the strip like a moth to the light until this candle extinguished, which, as mentioned, took quite a while.
About a year later, I had the chance to acquire a decant here. It was undoubtedly the same fragrance, but my impression was now, on skin as well as paper, unfortunately a bit different:
Dark-ethereal, like "cold ointment." Somehow "chemical," but still in a non-toxic way, bearable. Woody-sharp shimmering green that glows in the darkness. Balsamic-dense, almost creamy, yet clear, strict. In the base, powdery, earthy, fresh vetiver mold, slightly smoky, woody, leathery. Despite the bitterness, it has a rather "gentle" quality (considering the orientation).
I find that the notes here are strongly blended, thus creating a distinct fragrance, and I can’t really pick out much individually except, as mentioned, patchouli and vetiver. Therefore, I find it understandable that vetiver, patchouli, and woods are highlighted in the pyramid.
The only comparison that comes to mind would be
Humus due to the strict, natural, ethereal, green, earthy, rather cool orientation, although pine does not play a role in Sorcinelli's fragrance.
If one wanted to play into the marketing, one could at least in the opening also draw a certain proximity to poppers, but such forced associations should be taken with caution, especially since Sorcinelli has created a specific poppers fragrance with
popper-pop for the "X SÉ" series, from which this fragrance originates, which I have not yet smelled, but which certainly comes closer to the theme than "cruising-area | Filippo Sorcinelli."
Speaking of cruising. "Cruising area" is quite unspecific, usually referring to small woods. I have no idea what kind of idea the good man has of cruising areas or whether/where he goes cruising. However, I can hardly imagine that there is cruising in cemeteries or in moldy cellar vaults. But who knows how one does it in Italy. Be that as it may, I find the name somewhat far-fetched. It doesn’t really fit the fragrance for me.
In the promotional text, one reads among other things about hidden, underground places with dark passages, moldy walls full of fleeting desires, where personal fame is forgotten to make room for one’s own nakedness. ("It is that hidden, underground space, with inaccessible and dark passages, with moldy walls and full of ephemeral pleasure, where personal stardom is abandoned to leave room for one’s own nakedness without ever questioning who one really is." from https://filipposorcinelli.com/en/products/cruising-area). Well, I would say the first half of the concept is successfully implemented. The human, lustful part I can understand less; the fragrance smells rather inhuman, unhuman, instead atmospheric.
Ultimately, an interesting experience, but for me more in the "art fragrance" drawer. I would/will not wear it in public. This may seem contradictory, as patchouli can never be too crypt-like for me. Ultimately, however, the "cold ointment" facet here is too dominant and overwhelming. I wish my first impression would return... I was in mold heaven!
Top Notes 
Smoky notes
Spices
Clove
Heart Notes 
Vetiver
Patchouli
Amyris
Black pepper
Base Notes 
Precious woods
Copaiba balsam
Gaiac wood
MagicMeiko
Tanelv
Foxear
SchatzSucher
Floyd
Ergoproxy
Chizza
UntermWert
Mourant
Bosworth
