La Voglia d'aMare

Wasn’t a fan on first try, but wearing it now on a warm spring day, I think I get it now. I’m really starting to see it. It’s a fascinating, dirty yet fresh, masculine coconut. I smell familiar accords from within Pont Max and Notre Dame Notte di Natale in here. There’s fresh menthol atop smooth coconut, a fine, weightless powder, a damp earth and ancient incense-soaked buildings overgrown, detritus of aromatic vegetation and foliage. There is some industrial quality to it, but it is not obvious or unwelcome. Really creative and complex. Strong and enormous on initial spray but settles nicely into something well-balanced and elegant. Wonderfully atmospheric. An ancient clergyman on the beach. Tropical Vatican. Something serious and refreshing all at once. In my opinion it’s one of the standout fragrances by Filippo. Easily in the top 3. While many of his scents are polarizing, aggressive, or far too unbalanced, he seems to strike a harmonious chord every so often with something sincere and effortless, something with surprising ingenuity that changes what I think I know about what I like in a fragrance. His works are worth wading through to find the few that speak a long lost language to you; one without words and of a familiar, panpsychic memory.

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?" A contrast between material comfort [beautiful house, large automobile] and existential questioning [well, how did I get here]. Wearing La Voglia d’aMare and listening to Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads share a similar emotional architecture for me because both evoke that uncanny sensation of being fully present in a moment, and yet strangely outside of it. It’s the fragrance equivalent of that catatonic state I find myself in when driving long distances on an American interstate and suddenly realizing the scenery has changed around me. La Voglia d’aMare isn’t a warm memory for me, it’s a lucid one. It's consciousness slightly detached, looking around and quietly asking: “Well, how did I get here?” Sorcinelli's originality, creativity, and absurdity is overtaking fellow Italians Gualtieri and Imprezzabile. He has created my favourite perfume (questo) and my most hated perfume (Vento Forte Extrait). Phénoménal! Magnifico!

Whatever you were expecting from a coconut fragrance, this is the opposite of that. It’s the furthest thing from a sweet, lactonic sunscreen type fragrance imaginable. Smoke, pine resin, and a vanilla heavy amber float at the top. Something about that pine resin and the smoke notes combine to create the impression of tobacco. Underneath those is the creamy, meaty texture of coconut, and a soft and powdery floral. This perfume is a must sample, it’s so interesting and fun to experience. It really made me think about how texture is conveyed in perfume and what it adds to the experience. It also tells a story, something not all perfumes manage to do. The dry down on this is an incensey musk, and is completely benign and unassuming and easy; it comes in at about 3.5 hours into the perfume’s life on the skin, and hangs around for several more hours. La Voglia D’aMare has arms length sillage.

A little bit smoky (almost cigarette ashy) juicy ( almost creamy) coconut. It has some sunscreen/handcream vibe too. For me its like you would leave a bounty chocolate, some cigarette and some really expensive handcream to melt together on a beach and than you would take a bite of it with a little spoon also on the beach but at night. I can't decide which season does it fit the most. I bought it for the summer but honestly i would wear it all year around, maybe even more in the winter for a summer-nostalgic moment. Performance wise is way above average. Its loud in the first hours and stays on ur skin/ cloths about 7-8 hours. its the loudest from the line but not the longest lasting one. ( i also own Dolcissimo Sollievo and Luce Dei Cuori) Maybe it didn't have enough time to macerate. Its complex and simple at the same time. Its loud. Its quality. Great addition to my collection!

This fragrance was a great addition to my collection, I just love it! In terms of summer, what we get is not quite the usual composition, but it works great and, in my opinion, leans to be masculine. For me, it's mostly dusty dry coconut, a little powdery, slightly citrus fruity during the drydown and has a deep scent. The overall effect is a bit like an unusually dark, grayer, serious-toned powdery, perhaps earthy, slightly fruity luxury sunscreen. Or maybe it gives the impression of a gray, slightly fruity wax from certain undertones? I definitely love wearing it! We get an absolutely wearable, delicate, non-boring and pleasant composition that avoids any kind of offensive impression. Performance is fine, the intensity is also absolutely correct! I think it could work well from spring to fall.