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UNUM But Not Today ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 8 November 2018 10 Comments

Italian niche line UNUM has launched But Not Today, a new spicy woods fragrance inspired by the movie Hannibal.

Inspired by Ridley Scott’s film Hannibal, shot mostly in Florence, it is synaesthetically focused on the moment in which Hannibal Lecter addresses a question to Clarice: “Would you ever say to me: Stop. If you love me, stop?” One runs looking for elegance, art, hating the mediocrity of human, arriving extreme and insane points against “rude and unsophisticated people” or who in some way could upset the Universal Beauty. The other one runs among the cold and impersonal choices of her life, falling in love with an institution who never will repay its adept. Just like seeing and believing, joys and suffering, tracing an infinite ideal by thought to love without borders and without restrictions… in a race that enhances this harmony. Forever.

The notes include davana, licorice, everlasting, benzoin, cedar, leather, labdanum and patchouli.

UNUM But Not Today is available in 100 ml Extrait de Parfum.

(quote via ausliebezumduft.de, additional information via nose.fr)

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  1. Pimientas says:
    8 November 2018 at 4:20 pm

    The notes listed here (from Nose) sound amazing, but are totally different from the ones on ALZD, which are: Metallic Notes, Lily, Leather, Castoreum, Jasmine, Carnation, Animalic Notes.

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    • Robin says:
      8 November 2018 at 5:02 pm

      Wow, they are quite different!

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  2. nozknoz says:
    8 November 2018 at 5:55 pm

    YIKES! I’d been hoping to find another Sorcinelli fragrance that I like as much as LAVS and Rosa Nigra, but I don’t think I can bring myself to try this one.

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    • Robin says:
      8 November 2018 at 9:24 pm

      It would be creepy to have to think about the inspiration every time you wore it.

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  3. Jessica says:
    8 November 2018 at 6:24 pm

    I haven’t seen “Hannibal” but…what? I’ve seen “Silence of the Lambs” many times, and I wouldn’t describe HL as someone whose life was a pursuit of art, elegant, and beauty…

    Is this a reference to the moment in “Silence” when he says to Clarice, “And sometimes you wear L’Air du Temps…but not today”??

    huh.

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    • Robin says:
      8 November 2018 at 9:25 pm

      Don’t ask me — I was too chicken to even see Silence of the Lambs!

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  4. mag20 says:
    8 November 2018 at 6:48 pm

    Yes, that’s supposed to be the inspiration. The description on Luckyscent is quite detailed and includes this: “But Not Today is UNUM’s scented capsule of the tension of that moment, where the pearly innocence of L’Air du Temps’ carnation and lily, as worn by the fresh-faced Clarice Starling, faces off against the depraved bloodlust of castoreum, blood, and metal knives slicing through air, as represented by Hannibal himself. “

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    • mag20 says:
      8 November 2018 at 6:49 pm

      This was in reply to Jessica.

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      • Jessica says:
        8 November 2018 at 9:54 pm

        Thank you!!

        Still… huh.

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        • Sandman says:
          9 November 2018 at 9:13 am

          I’m with you; I’m too chicken to see either Silence of the Lambs or Hannibal, but, honestly, the first thing that sprang to mind after I read that bolus of indigestible ad copy was not Thomas Harris, but Joss Whedon:

          “I think I speak for everyone here when I say ‘Huh?'”

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