né il giorno né l'ora Filippo Sorcinelli 2023

Freud divided anxiety into three categories.

From his personality model of the Id, Ego, and Superego, the following theory about human anxiety emerges.

The realistic anxiety of fleeing from what is harmful, from what could negatively impact our integrity and survival. Be it natural disasters or, quite simply, the smell of smoke in our house.

Neurotic anxiety describes how we react to facts, thoughts, and ideas that exist only in our minds, but not outside, not in our environment, and are therefore not real. The well-known loss of control or the nervousness before unknown events.

Moral anxiety completes the circle here. It is largely determined by the Superego. It is this inner social world that we all have, where our “ought,” our “unconscious mandates,” and this fear or shame of failure in all its forms, be it disgrace, loneliness, or dismissal, are staged.

The topic of anxiety and how to deal with it is extensive and profound, just like our fears themselves.

Filippo Sorcinelli has dedicated this scent to anxiety. If one sets aside the artistic aspect and process with the included scissors and the associated invitation to interact with the bottle, one focuses solely on the fragrance.

Olfactorily, it is quite citrusy due to the bitter citron, green through its floral elements, and then very monotonously warm-woody with a subtle aquatic sheen.

This all sounds very wild at first and almost like a lovely summer scent. Far from it!

Sorcinelli has bottled something much darker and more mythical in this leather-bound flacon. The scent captivates its wearer. Almost as if one must free oneself with the scissors!

The fragrance almost reminds me of fear sweat, a scent we all know.

Once again, Sorcinelli has managed to create a fragrance that perfectly addresses and embodies emotions, thoughts, and in this case, fear.

I will connect the beautiful flacon, quite untypically, through the price. €220 for 100ml of Extrait I find justified. The scent creates a very humane and subtle sillage and happily lasts longer than 8 hours on the skin.

The flacon comes with a pair of scissors, intended for freeing the bottle from its binding. This is not only a fun action but also, for me, symbolic...

small disclaimer: The definition of Freud's theories on anxiety is not word-for-word from his writings and should only serve as a framework for this review.