Anima Mundi Perfume

Creative director of Niche&Co Emilia Chinigo, following her famous brand Onyrico, brought a new project — Anima Mundi. The collection is dedicated to the religions of the world and the very first way to appease the gods — through the fragrant smoke of burnt sacrificial incense. The smoke, however, in all Anima Mundi fragrances without exception is delicate and quite appropriate somewhere on the 33rd floor of an office anthill.

Perhaps the most magnificent sacrifice was reproduced by Anima Mundi perfumer Andrea Tero Casotti in the Ankh Sun Amon fragrance dedicated to Egypt. Here, oud and sandalwood chips crackle in the sacrificial fire, amber smokes on hot stones, and in a bowl over the hearth, bronze-skinned muscular priests stir melting wax with fragrant flower honey, spices and dried rose petals. The aroma is sweetish, warm and very corporeal. I predict that Ankh Sun Amon will be the most popular in the collection. 

Ankh Sun Amon Anima Mundi

Honey, lily, cedar, cypress, mandarin, Russian leather, saffron, pepper, raspberry, amber, vanilla, sandalwood, cistus, musk

The main ingredient of the healing ointment prepared by the junior priests of the Temple of Asclepius in ancient Pompeii is basil. Basil grass, ground with rose or myrtle oil or vinegar, saved the Latins from headaches, and mixed with the colorful citrus fruits of the Italian land, the ubiquitous sage, geranium and rosemary, it smelled good in the kitchen of every good housewife engaged in a truly godly business - cooking. Lively and sunny, absorbing the smells of spicy and salad herbs, the Pompeii aroma is my favorite in the Anima Mundi collection. I have big plans with it for the summer. 

Pompeii Anima Mundi

Bergamot, mandarin, lemon, lime, rosemary, petitgrain, cinnamon, jasmine, coriander, cedar, oak moss, amber, vanilla, sandalwood, sage, guaiac wood

Isvara — a bit of temple debauchery from ancient India. Bathe in donkey milk with nutmeg and saffron, rub your dark skin with sandalwood and rose oil, cover your heavy hips with the patterned silk of festive trousers stored in old chests lined with patchouli leaves. And dance.

Isvara Anima Mundi

Saffron, nutmeg, petitgrain, mandarin, bergamot, lime, lemon, plum, cashmere, geranium, sandalwood, cypress, benzoin, tonka beans, vetiver, amber, patchouli, sage

Dusara Anima Mundi will certainly seem familiar to you. We have smelled all these boiling resins, all this acrid incense smoke, oud and dirty musk in dozens of fragrances dedicated to some story from the Middle East. Dusara is also from there - from Jordan, from the Nabatean temples carved into the rocks. Like all niche compositions from those parts, Dusara is rather monotonous, but incredibly diffuse and persistent.

Dusara Anima Mundi

Bergamot, cypress, incense, cedar, galbanum, saffron, cypriol, oud, cinnamon, amber, wood, musk

Central America with its olfactory traditions is an unknown world for most Europeans, so you expect some stereotypical tourist "cranberry" from the aroma with the ancient Mayan name Tikal. In our case - tequila with lime or chocolate with pepper. But you suddenly come across thickets of geranium among gray stones and a wall of impenetrable tropical forest with all its horror, poisonous vines, pythons and pumas. Tikal exudes the damp vapors of the earth and the salty wind from the sea, the spirit of spicy herbs and tree resin hardening in the air, and if it weren’t for the Mayans in its intricate legend, I would say that it smells like a mid-20th century masculine classic.

Tikal Anima Mundi

Bergamot, lemon, sage, coriander, geranium, tonka bean, nutmeg, ambrette, benzoin, cedar, sandalwood, guaiac and mastic wood, myrrh, vanilla

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