The Pope’s Gay Tailor Makes Perfumes Called “Quickie and Coffee” and “Cruising Area”

Filippo Sorcinelli, an Italian tailor known for crafting vestments for Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, and Pope Leo XIV through his studio Atelier LAVS, is also a perfume mogul in his spare time. In a new interview with Dazed about his “conceptual perfume house” UNUM, he opened up about his scents, which bear names like Quickie and Coffee, Cruising Area, and the latest addition: Vulnus.“What part of us continues to live on in the place where we were wounded?” Sorcinelli asked rhetorically about the new fragrance, which is named after the Latin term for wound. “A remark made at the wrong moment, a sense of shame inflicted in front of others, a caress turned into a threat, a judgement that ends up dwelling in our conscience with the voice of the person who uttered it.” Vulnus, released last month, features a bottle meant to resemble a hyperrealistic rendition of “bruised human skin.” Described as both “artwork and body horror,” the vessel also features teeth marks — Sorcinelli’s own — on the bottle cap. See on Instagram “That mark is a sort of intimate signature, closer to anatomy than to calligraphy, which is precisely why it interests me,” he told Dazed. He added that “beauty lies in the dignity of the wounded person and in the possibility that someone might finally pause to look at them closely.”While the perfume is mostly reminiscent of vanilla and leather, it also contains a “rusted iron note reminiscent of human blood,” per Dazed. Afternotes include jasmine and burnt caramel, which Sorcinelli describes as a journey that, like a relationship, “[leaves] the initial tenderness and the mark of what has happened to coexist in memory.”Vulnus joins a host of other fragrances developed through UNUM, including Opus, which is described as “The true smell of Gothic, which begins with the laying of the first stone of the basilica of Saint Denis at the gates of Paris in 1144,” as well as Symphone-Passion, which is inspired by th