That scent belonged to everyday work, travelling alongside the objects on their journey and lending the sense of smell a part of the story that the formal language of sight had left unspoken. In time, it was the very people who received those boxes who recognized that signature and asked that it might exist on its own.

LAVS thus became a fragrance, marking the beginning of Filippo Sorcinelli's olfactory exploration.

Twenty-five years have passed since then, and as the scent journeyed through different countries, cultures and sensibilities, its creator journeyed through himself. Tailoring was joined by photography, painting, music, performance and an ever more personal olfactory universe, in which perfume has taken on the dignity of an artistic language.

Olfactory research has become a means of questioning the sacred, the body, memory, vulnerability, desire, and that unfathomable realm of the human being where beauty and unease so often come to recognize one another.