Perfumes to the ear: Extrait de Musique

The Perfume Line That Thinks It's a Symphony

Extrait de Musique is another perfume line created by Italian artist Filippo Sorcinelli, positioned alongside UNUM but distinct in concept and execution. While UNUM is closely tied to ritual, architecture, and sacred space, Extrait de Musique is built around sound, rhythm, and musical composition, treating fragrance as a sensory parallel to music.

The line takes its name from the idea of a musical "excerpt," and each perfume is conceived as an olfactory interpretation of a musical structure, emotion, or sonic atmosphere. Rather than referencing specific songs, the fragrances explore tempo, harmony, dissonance, and resonance through scent.

This reflects Sorcinelli's long standing involvement in music, including choral work and organ performance. He's not just using music as a metaphor. He actually understands how it works.

How the Perfumes Are Different From UNUM

The perfumes in Extrait de Musique tend to be expressive but more fluid than those in UNUM. While depth and intensity are still present, the compositions often feel more dynamic, shifting between contrasts rather than holding a single architectural mood.

Woods, resins, florals, spices, and musks appear across the line, arranged to suggest movement, pauses, and crescendos rather than static forms. Where UNUM feels like standing still in a cathedral, Extrait de Musique feels like listening to something unfold over time.

The difference is subtle but real. UNUM is about presence and weight. Extrait de Musique is about rhythm and progression.

The Bottles Look Like a Unified Score

Bottle design sets Extrait de Musique apart from UNUM. The fragrances are housed in dark glass bottles with a more uniform silhouette across the collection, creating a sense of cohesion similar to a musical score.

Labels are minimal and graphic, often referencing musical notation or abstract visual cues linked to sound. Unlike UNUM, where every bottle is a unique sculptural object, Extrait de Musique uses consistency to create unity.

Each fragrance in the line functions as an individual "composition," but the collection is designed to be experienced as a whole. The consistency of the bottle design reinforces the idea of a unified musical language, while the variations in scent reflect different moods, tonalities, and emotional registers.

You're meant to see them together, like movements in a larger work.

Who This Line Is For

Extrait de Musique appeals to those interested in conceptual perfumery that feels expressive rather than decorative. The line sits comfortably between art and wearability, offering fragrances that are distinctive without relying on overt symbolism or religious references.

It provides an alternative entry point into Sorcinelli's universe for those drawn to creative, idea driven scent with a modern edge. If UNUM feels too heavy, too Gothic, too liturgical, Extrait de Musique offers the same artistic rigor with more movement and less shadow.

How the Two Lines Work Together

Together with UNUM, Extrait de Musique completes a broader vision of perfumery as a multidisciplinary art form. Where UNUM leans toward structure and sacred stillness, Extrait de Musique explores movement, sound, and emotional flow.

It expands Sorcinelli's work into a different sensory register while remaining unmistakably his. You can smell both lines and immediately recognize the hand behind them, but they're addressing different emotional territories.

UNUM is the cathedral. Extrait de Musique is the organ music echoing through it.

The Bottom Line

Extrait de Musique is what happens when someone who actually understands music tries to translate it into scent. Not just the idea of music, but its actual structures: tempo, harmony, dissonance, progression.

The fragrances are still expressive, still intense, still uncompromising. But they move differently than UNUM. They breathe, shift, build, and resolve like compositions rather than monuments.

If you found UNUM too static or too heavy, Extrait de Musique might be the better entry point. If you loved UNUM and want to see what else Sorcinelli can do with the same artistic rigor, this is the logical next step.

Either way, it's perfumery as art. Just a different kind of art than most brands are attempting.