Filippo Sorcinelli Notre Dame Notte de Natale Extrait de Parfum was released in 2024, inspired by the drawers of the Sacristy of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a rich incense and amber fragrance with notes of amber, tonka bean, chocolate, cinnamon, cedarwood, orange blossom, and Virginia Cedar. Filippo Sorcinelli Notre Dame Notte de Natale is an Extrait de Parfum.
From the brand - "Inspired by the drawers of the sacristy of the Paris cathedral. It is the olfactory memory of Philip in Paris, during his visits to the sacristy of the cathedral. The person in charge of the sacristy loves to prepare an ever-changing mixture of incense, according to the numerous anniversaries of the liturgical year."
Filippo Sorcinelli Notre Dame Notte de Natale Extrait de Parfum REVIEWS
Fragrantica - "Warmth, beauty , sweetness, absolutely elegant and wearable. The PERFECT autumn and winter scent , 100/10 . Magical and gorgeous, balanced to perfection. Chocolatey, woody, incense , a sexyness both sweet and rough. Perfection. Incense doesn't overpower and truly smells like Christmas in the best possible way.
Including the smoke of the woods being burned in the chimney on the roofs. The panettone and other Christmas delicacies, the warm hot mullet wine, but not cheap and shitty.
I'm addicted ."
Fragrantica - "Here, for Our Lady of this Christmas Night, the notes of amber, chocolate, and tonka combine to produce a syrupy, chrism-like, honey accord. Hypnotically drawn forward, one enters into this (un)holy sanctum sanctorum of a gilded shrine, one dedicated to some dark pagan daemon or martyred saint. The full affect is as if resinous drops of desertic incense have been lit and left to smolder upon a glistening pool of glowing honey. Of course, this envisioned setting must be so sacramentally operatic. This is a perfume for 'church', ...however you define 'church' to be."
Fragrantica - "Notre Dame Notte di Natale is potent, and churchier than the church itself. The moment you spray it on your neck is the moment you step out of the cool, incense-filled air of a massive stone cathedral into a sunny spring Sunday. A surrounding garden welcomes you with some unknown bloom’s warm, honeyed spell. Bees busy around heady flowers. You wander among the bushes, contemplating the nature of things, breathing in that soft sweetness. Two hours pass like a happy moment. And then you’re like, 'nah, this world is not for me', and you go back inside. To your incense, your pews, your weeping icons, and just sit there still, for 10 hours. Those blooms faintly touch your nose sometimes, but less and less as time goes by. You’re not even sure you’ll ever leave."
Fragrantica - "Smells like Winnie the pooh if he was a priest but also drunk to the point where you can tell by the slight Reek of alcohol coming from him."
Fragrantica - "SO STRONG LIKE WOW. almost too aggressive up front for me but it lasts forever!! opens very incense heavy but dries into a photo-realistic honey scent that i love"
Fragrantica - "What a powerhouse of a church incense scent! Incredibly warm heart that comes from the chocolate and cinnamon, but doesn't become sickly sweet because of it. This isn't a cold abandoned church, this is a packed mass, with golden relics glittering in the candlelight."
