Filippo Sorcinelli CHIUDI GLI OCCHI E POI VEDI Extrait de Parfum

A Fragrant Journey Between Light and Shadow

CHIUDI GLI OCCHI E POI VEDI – translated as “Close your eyes and then see” – is not merely a fragrance. It is an invitation to retreat inward, to rediscover the unseen and the deeply felt. This green-woody unisex Extrait de Parfum, launched in 2024 by Filippo Sorcinelli, echoes his signature artistic vision: to translate the unseen into scent, to awaken memories that live beneath the surface, and to challenge the boundaries of conventional perfumery.

The Fragrance – A Dialogue of Emotion and Contrast

The opening of CHIUDI GLI OCCHI E POI VEDI feels like a fresh, unexpected breath of air. Lemon, bergamot, and lavender combine with a whisper of strawberry – a surreal, slightly playful note that blurs the line between innocence and abstraction. This initial brightness speaks not of naïveté, but of heightened perception – as if the world reawakens behind closed eyes.

In the heart, the fragrance deepens and finds grounding: artemisia, with its bitter-green intensity, collides with the dry elegance of clary sage, while petitgrain and patchouli lend texture and introspection. There is a hushed complexity here, a subtle tension between clarity and dissonance, inviting you to explore your own inner contradictions.

The base unfolds in sacred silence. Vetiver, cedarwood, sandalwood, amber, and a refined, restrained touch of oud create a warm, earthy, yet abstract structure – like a floor of cathedral stone still echoing the vibrations of choral sound. It is a fragrance that lingers not with volume, but with presence. A scent that feels like skin touched by spirit.

The Perfumer – Filippo Sorcinelli

Filippo Sorcinelli is not just a perfumer. He is an organist, a liturgical couturier for the Vatican, an artist in the truest sense. Under the name UNUM, his fragrances transcend the idea of mere olfactory pleasure. They are contemplative experiences – tactile poetry in vaporous form.

Each scent is an act of creation that blurs the boundary between sacred and profane, between ritual and personal memory. Sorcinelli’s perfumes do not flatter – they confront, transform, and illuminate. With CHIUDI GLI OCCHI E POI VEDI, he explores the duality of seeing through not-seeing, of truth that only reveals itself in silence.

The Inspiration – Between Innocence and Fear

The concept behind CHIUDI GLI OCCHI E POI VEDI is rooted in the unsettling ambiguity of the clown figure – a symbol of both joy and unease. Historically associated with jesters and theatrical play, clowns also carry the power to disturb. Their painted-on smiles, exaggerated gestures, and unreadable expressions provoke a dissonance that Sorcinelli explores olfactorily.

The fragrance reflects this emotional paradox – from cheerful citrus to earthy anxiety, from sweet mischief to dark reverberation. The unsettling, distorted presence of clowns in popular culture – especially embodied by Pennywise, the infamous clown from Stephen King’s It – forms the deeper conceptual background. It is not the figure itself, but what it awakens: a fear of unreadable intention, of hidden darkness beneath bright surfaces.

This theme taps into the phenomenon of coulrophobia – the fear of clowns – and draws upon Sorcinelli’s ongoing exploration of anxiety and transformation. It follows a line that began with But Not Today in 2018 and continued through Né Il Giorno Né L’Ora – a poetic confrontation with internalized fear, rendered here with subtle emotional intensity.

An Olfactory Allegory of Vulnerability

CHIUDI GLI OCCHI E POI VEDI does not soothe. It does not entertain. It reveals. It exists not to be worn, but to be witnessed – a sensorial self-portrait that unfolds across skin like a forgotten memory suddenly recalled.

This Extrait de Parfum is for those who do not seek decoration, but meaning. For those who walk through the world with open hearts and closed eyes – and still manage to see more clearly than others.

Discover CHIUDI GLI OCCHI E POI VEDI by Filippo Sorcinelli – now available at scent amor. A fragrance that does not ask for attention, but offers a revelation.

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