Né il giorno né l’ora (Neither the day nor the hour) is the twelfth creation in Filippo Sorcinelli's UNUM collection, a conceptual and disturbing fragrance that addresses the most ancestral emotion: fear. Not a screaming fear, but a suspended, silent one, that of waiting and the unknown. The inspiration comes from the parable of the ten virgins narrated in the Gospel of Matthew, where vigilance becomes the dividing line between salvation and exclusion, between light and closed doors. The perfume translates the moment before the event, the time when anything can still happen or vanish. The olfactory materials move as if in a night vigil: warm and enveloping at the opening, crossed by a floral and marine heart that recalls the bated breath of waiting, then melting into a brighter and sharper base, like a sudden awakening. Even the ritual of opening the bottle, sealed, hidden, to be cut, becomes an integral part of the experience, transforming the fragrance into a physical gesture of awar