Notre-Dame 15.4.2019 by Filippo Sorcinelli

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Notre-Dame 15.4.2019 Filippo Sorcinelli 2020

7.3 / 10 71 Ratings

A perfume by Filippo Sorcinelli for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is smoky-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky

Woody

Spicy

Floral

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Amber

Precious woods

Sandalwood Vetiver

Vetiver

Moss

Patchouli

Tonka bean

Heart Notes

Geranium

Ambrette

Lily of the valley

Base Notes

Frankincense

Bergamot

Coriander

Galbanum

Neroli

Orange

Basil

Ginger

Iris

Lemon

Perfumer

Carlo Ribero

Ratings

Scent

7.371 Ratings

Longevity

7.565 Ratings

Sillage

7.165 Ratings

Bottle

8.567 Ratings

Value for money

6.527 Ratings

Submitted by Floyd · last update on 11/25/2025.

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The fragrance is part of the Délire de Voyage collection.

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Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/13/2025

10Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

frmvar
16 Reviews

frmvar

1

Reclaiming a Tragedy

Opens with a salty, peated Islay whisky note, like smelling the rocks glass the day after you had a drink. Sometimes the floral parts of this perfume remind me of cigar smoke. It's a bold open for sure.

As it sits on the skin, balsamic notes and wilted flowers accompany a cold and dirty incense smoke. It's not like stepping into a church at all, but more of a suggestion of darkness, violence and something a bit unholy. It's what a burning house smells like in your nightmares.

In the end, the smoke grows fainter and fainter, gradually making way for all the gorgeous woody and flowery notes. After the three-hour mark, you are left with a deep but hard-to-localise musky spice. The smoke is still there, but it's there to balance the introspective and dark florals.

I love it and sometimes wear it as armour. The saltiness in the opening, followed by the sheer power of the smoke, keeps me coming back, but I do wish that the performance was better, as after 6-7 hours, it blends into my skin and only the amber and wood notes linger on even after 8 hours. On textile the smoke remains present for much longer though! The longevity is good, but not as mind-blowing as the quality of the scent. Besides this, I wish that for the price, the atomiser would be of higher quality... Spray is often difficult to control on this bottle with its very short bursts.

Filippo Sorcinelli managed to create an evocative and powerful new take on "burning" fragrances. Wearability is very subjective here and definitely requires testing before purchase. But even if you don't have a strong connection to the subject matter that the artist explored with this perfume, the quality of the result is strong enough for you to build your own narrative and emotional connection with the scent. This is what perfumery can be.

07/08/2025

7Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

VincenzoA19
7 Reviews

VincenzoA19

1

Evocative

Perfume that perfectly respects the idea of its creator. A church destroyed by flames, that's all you'll find in this fragrance. A unique perfume in all its facets. For those who love "smoy" perfumes, this cannot be missing in your collection. In my opinion, the fragrance opens with citrus and spicy notes but that immediately leave room for a warmer heart where I perceive geranium and perhaps a pinch of iris and a background that makes this fragrance really unique with a lot of incense and other notes that make it smoky

01/12/2023

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

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Helpful Review 5

Keeping the Church in the Village

Sorcinelli fragrances are true masterpieces and pure art. Be it the scent itself, the bottle, and in the case of the Délire de Voyage series, also the packaging. According to research, these are handmade by Filippo himself. But as with all things, tastes vary widely, and opinions can differ significantly.

As a confessed Sorcinelli fan, I own all the fragrances (bottles and samples) and now dedicate my first Sorcinelli review to this scent.

The creation / story of the fragrance is self-explanatory and sad at the same time based on its name.
Sorcinelli addresses this shocking theme through an Extrait de Parfum and simultaneously turns adversity into virtue: Notre-Dame 15.4.2019 will be a small support for the Maitrise, the ensemble of singers and musicians that preserves the invaluable heritage of sacred music of the cathedral. The proceeds from the sale will be donated to the association "Musique Sacrée" so that it can continue its activities and mission, currently outside its own "home."

Now let’s talk about the scent.
One could almost guess it just by looking at the massive bottle cap: fiery, smoky, charred. Well, how does fire smell? Not at all! But the substance that comes into contact with it. In the case of Notre Dame, wood. Lots of wood. One might think. And yes, the opening is intense, and a charred smell greets you upon spraying. But not the well-known sharp scent from grilling or burning wood, rather a sweet-warm one enveloped in incense and patchouli. If you like that, great; if not, I ask you to give the fragrance some time. This is often the case with many scents. After about 5 minutes, everything calms down, and gradually you can recognize various fragrance components that are delicately interwoven. After 20 minutes of spraying, I detect floral aspects. Individual flowers are hard to filter out. Imagine a bouquet of flowers in the church, something like that. Gradually, the fragrance develops into a truly beautiful balsamic direction. I suspect that patchouli, amber, and sandalwood contribute to this. The individual citrus notes are also difficult to identify. Here too, please envision: a small citrus bowl sitting right next to the flower bouquet in the church. The sweet smoky scent remains until the fragrance has, so to speak, extinguished.

As an overall impression, one can imagine this scent as follows:
It is Sunday afternoon. The mass is over, and a veil of incense still lingers in the air, permeating the old church pews. On the altar lies the decorative bouquet of flowers, adorned with oranges and lemons. The church window is open. In the church garden, preparations are underway for the annual barbecue of the parish.

Even though this fragrance is challenging, one should still keep the church in the village during the first impression and give it a chance. Because it develops well. Really well!

When I wear it, it’s in the evening or on gloomy rainy days in the city, but sometimes also in the home office when I feel like it.
Seasonally, I classify it for all seasons, but as already mentioned, in the evening. Well, in midsummer, when it’s still 30 degrees, not so much.

However you may categorize the scent from reading this review, it’s definitely worth a test. After all, it’s a Sorcinelli ;)

05/23/2020

7.5Scent 6Longevity 7Sillage

Floyd
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Top Review 41

Trauma of a Peripeteia

I believe what I see. This is not a tragedy, for there was no impending conflict, no delaying moment, only sudden peripeteia, the television of a trauma. Reality and actuality drift apart like the waking state from the world of dreams. I see a surreal symbol fading, experience the obliteration of an abstract associative space. Something begins to dig like a ghost in thoughts, uprooting memories, reordering neurons: It has always been this way, when I was still a child, in illustrated books with pictures of cathedrals, in novels, thus the realities of others, in the bookstore across the Seine, in black-and-white films. This belongs to the intact world. Now I see people standing with their backs to the bookstore, staring, silent, in a desperate attempt to slow the flames, to brake the images, to reverse the film. One wishes to undo it.
Now, a year later, the images are back. Alienated and blurred. Memory creates its own paintings. What could be expected from someone who creates an abstract associative space in memory of this trauma, intended to help finance the reconstruction? Especially if it is someone like Sorcinelli, whose fragrances are almost always marked by smoke. Firestorm, smoldering fire, black smoke, and ash?
For seconds, there are truly images of burning tar, viscous like black, greasy lava pouring over wood and stones, flying sparks extinguishing into ash, within which, however, green spices, especially basil, begin to uproot memories again with all kinds of bright hesperidic notes, counteracting the coal block on the bottle and simultaneously reflecting the desire to create something new as quickly as possible. For a few minutes, a greenish cologne almost wafts through the burning cathedral, as if to counteract the heat.
Then the flowers begin to bloom, lily of the valley meanders in a mash of amber and earthy resins, defining the image for about half an hour, before a mixture of sandalwood and vetiver combined with incense shifts the impression back into the smoky realm, sometimes depicting charred wood, with vetiver, similar to the basil from the top note, setting a few brighter accents, while incense and sandalwood unfortunately let the scent fade into a balsamic finish after about four to five hours.
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In my opinion, Sorcinelli has chosen a comprehensible approach. He has created a wearable fragrance for many people that addresses the theme of destruction as well as the vision of the emergence of something new, offering the possibility to generate means to support restoration without having to stray too far from his style. It would have been a remarkable achievement if he had managed this balancing act so well that he could reach both his loyal followers and the neutral audience fully. For the latter, this fragrance is certainly bold, while for some of his loyal fans, it may even be a disappointment.
I think if one sets aside the often-cited personal expectations a bit and tries to judge the fragrance neutrally, what remains is a truly good, interesting, partially pleasing scent with clear development, which at first projects about an arm's length, soon becomes moderate to skin-close, and unfortunately only lasts a few hours.

(With thanks to Kylesa)