Heritage
A house, in its own words
The Sergio Scaglietti fragrance house was founded in 2017 by Matteo and Simone Scaglietti, two Italian brothers who named their project after their celebrated namesake, the Modenese coachbuilder (1920-2011) responsible for sculpting some of Ferrari's most iconic postwar bodies, including the 250 Testa Rossa and the 250 GTO. That Sergio Scaglietti, based in Maranello, ran a carrozzeria that became inseparable from Ferrari's racing identity, shaping aluminium forms for Scuderia Ferrari and a roster of private collectors through the 1950s and 1960s. The perfume house borrows directly from that legacy, opening its catalogue with a quartet of fragrances whose names evoke the chromatic vocabulary of classic motorsport liveries. By choosing colour as the conceptual starting point, the founders positioned their debut as a tribute rather than a literal homage, inviting wearers to associate scent with the visual language of speed and competition. The 2017 launch of Racing Orange, Racing Yellow, Racing Steel, and Racing Green established the brand's DNA in a single statement year, and the racing motif has remained central to its identity since. Sergio Scaglietti approaches perfumery as an exercise in association, mapping chromatic memories onto olfactory structures. The creative vision rests on the idea that colours carry emotional and mechanical connotations, and that fragrance can function as a portable, invisible extension of those signals. Rather than building compositions around conventional floral or oriental pyramids, the house treats each colour in its debut series as a brief, then translates hue into ingredient, texture, and drydown. This method reflects a broader Italian sensibility in which design, craft, and material culture converge, the same sensibility that defined the original Sergio Scaglietti's workshop in Maranello. The founders appear to view their role less as perfumers in the classical sense and more as translators between visual heritage and scent, treating the debut quartet as a foundation for a continuing colour-led vocabulary. Racing Orange, Racing Yellow, Racing Steel, and Racing Green are therefore conceived as a set, each sharpened by contrast with the others.