Gettone

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History

Nothing in this catalog starts from perfumery. Filippo Sorcinelli trained as an organist at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro and makes liturgical vestments: his LAVS workshop, opened in 2001, works with the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff and has dressed Benedict XVI and the opening Mass of the pontificate of Francis. Perfume came out of that workshop in the most literal way, since he scented the boxes of sacred garments before shipping them. He founded the house under his own name in 2013 and has signed every formula in it since; no third party technical nose is ever credited.

Gettone went online on 13 August 2026 under reference GETT26, as a 50 ml extrait de parfum in a limited edition. It is not sold on its own. The name states its object plainly: in Italian a gettone is a token, the struck coin exchanged for a phone call, a turnstile or a locker, worth what its alloy is worth rather than what is engraved on it.

The house moves by collections, each born of a place or a fixation: UNUM for the sacred, Memento for cathedral sacristies, Atmosphère d'émotion for weather, X SÉ for desire, Délire de Voyage for one off pieces tied to an event. Gettone belongs to none of that architecture, and what it adds sits entirely in its material list. Sorcinelli had already written polished metal into ORGAN #4 and machine leather into ORGAN #3, but never this bluntly, naming rust and mold the way other houses name a flower.

Olfactory pyramid

The house does publish a conventional three stage pyramid here; it is the contents that are unusual, eleven notes and not one flower.

Two notes name a metal, two name a form of decay, and galbanum, the only plant in the base, is also the greenest and most bitter thing on the list: this reads as an inventory of materials rather than a formula.

Olfactory profile

Sorcinelli does not think in volatility tiers but in a score, a subject, a countersubject and a coda, and Gettone submits to that reading. The subject is birch tar, a phenolic material obtained by pyrolysis of bark, the same one that gives Russian leather its smell of boot and wood fire. The countersubject is mold, announced right at the top, which brings damp and cellar to exactly the place where the tar is drying everything out.

Around that pair the house sets materials it has handled since LAVS: benzoin and patchouli, two earthy resinous things that recur across nearly every collection, plus a vetiver for dry root and smoke. In the heart, powder strips the leather down and keeps the smoke from turning balsamic. It is a very short heart, three notes only, held like a passage between two hands.

The base is the unusual stretch. Rust, steel and brass correspond to no raw material: they cannot be distilled, they have to be assembled. What makes them convincing is a cutting cold and that nearly bloody edge the nose associates with iron, which brass then warms toward copper. Galbanum, the only plant matter down there, gives them a green bitter ridge that stops them tipping into abstraction. The coda of Gettone is a cold object held in the palm, which is exactly what its name describes.

Key characteristics

Sillage, longevity and projection

When and where to wear

Gettone is a cold season perfume for enclosed rooms. Its material list rules out sugar, flowers and solar warmth from the start; it asks for a wearer willing to smell of tar and cellar, and a setting where that reads as a choice rather than an accident.

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Seasonal fit

Context fit

Similar perfumes

Gettone stays inside its own house: two of the seven ORGAN scents of 2026 had already gone near metal and machinery, and a 2020 one off worked on damaged matter.

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