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Rosa Nigra

filippo sorcinelli

UNISEX

Rosa Nigra

$ 250
An olfactory paraphrase of the Assumption — Artemisia and Anise open into Peach, Freesia, and Sandalwood, settling into a warm, velvety base of Musk, Cashmere Wood, Amber, and Vanilla. A rose that exists only in the mind.

Rosa Nigra — "Nigra sum, sed formosa" — is an olfactory paraphrase of the Assumption. The Virgin Mary ascends to heaven in body and soul, and all the materials that compose her call to mind a rose that in reality is never present. The composition opens with Artemisia and Anise — bitter herbs, the dark of earthly existence, the paradox of blackness claimed as beauty. The heart reveals Peach, Freesia, and Sandalwood — a soft, bright uplift, the body becoming light, the soul already elsewhere. The base settles into Musk, Cashmere Wood, Amber, and Vanilla — a warm, powdery embrace, velvety and intimate, the scent of assumption made tangible. Reviewers find it a bright, uplifting fruity-herbal sandalwood with floral nuances, romantic and feminine, yet always with something smoky just beneath. The rose is imagined, remembered, never named. For those who understand that the most profound beauty exists in absence, that faith transforms what we cannot see into what we most desire, and that sometimes the greatest presence is the one felt only in the spaces between notes.

Notes & Scents
Top Notes Artemisia, Anise
Heart Notes Peach, Sandalwood, Freesia
Base Notes Musk, Cashmere Wood, Amber, Vanilla
Perfume Details
Type of Perfume Extrait de Parfum Sillage Moderate
Country Italy Projection Moderate to Strong
Collection Unum Fragrance Family Floral

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