Anima Dulcis Arquiste 2012

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7.5 / 10 106 Ratings

A popular perfume by Arquiste for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is spicy-gourmand. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Spicy

Gourmand

Sweet

Oriental

Animal

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cinnamon

Oregano

Sesame

Heart Notes

Cumin

Night-blooming jasmine Chili

Chili

Clove

Base Notes

Mexican vanilla

Oriental notes

Cocoa bean absolute

Chypre accord

Perfumers

Rodrigo Flores-Roux, Yann Vasnier

Ratings

Scent

7.5106 Ratings

Longevity

7.571 Ratings

Sillage

6.672 Ratings

Bottle

7.782 Ratings

Value for money

7.316 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 07/13/2025.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/17/2014

Tresor
12 Reviews

Tresor

Very helpful Review 3

Irrevocable Warmth

Where I live in Canada the mercury is just beginning it's lengthy descent into a realm where the enormous pines are blanketed with scintillating sheets of virginal white (and, less excitingly, where your wet hair freezes to the side of your head). As the process of seasonal decay takes flight I've found myself craving deep, encompassing warmth as if to extend the final, circumferential breath of summer's ambient embrace. Upon the first flourish I am encapsulated within an unctuous aural sphere of bitter dark chocolate, dusted with cinnamon and kissed with glistening dew drops of honey. As its metamorphosis unfolds upon the skin this potion releases vibrations of a mysterious flower, the essence of which I can't quite put my finger on. It's color is sprightly green, a masterful foil to a labyrinthine sequence of oscillating capsicum sizzle and encompassing cacao richness. As it dries I catch pulses of blackened patchouli and sticky, translucent candied oranges and a soft, resonant hum of vanilla. For all of this opulent, cascading baroqueness the composition is not at all suffocating. It wears with a chic, modern ease and comfortable aura. J'Adore.

04/28/2025

SmellerBee
14 Reviews

SmellerBee

Helpful Review 2

A gourmand for non-gourmand people

I have a hard time with candy-sweet caramel, vanilla, marshmallow, whipped cream etc. concoctions that are all the rage right now. I tried liking gourmands and have disliked the majority of them. But this? This is a masterpiece. It starts off like you've opened a wooden cupboard of a 17th century Mexican kitchen that houses cooking spices, dried chiles and cocoa. I can smell the oregano which gives it a hint of savouriness. Then comes the cocoa and chiles with a bittersweet richness and a dash of spice. It's a warm enveloping cup of Mexican hot chocolate. Nothing synthetic and incredibly transportive. It's amazing.

04/29/2014

5
Bottle 5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 7
Scent

WRoth
154 Reviews

WRoth

2

Anima Dulcis

Opens with a truly delicious dark chocolate accord made up by cocoa, vanilla and cinnamon. The chilli infusion is detectable as a fresh-floral nuance which counterbalances the warm and sweet notes. One of the best gourmand fragrances I have tested so far, simple but never boring.

01/17/2015

10
Bottle 10
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 7
Scent

Tar
261 Reviews

Tar

3

How to cure shyness

Sweet Soul... Wonderful name for a scent! Arquiste, the modern perfumer house in New York, wanted to catch historical places, moods, figures from Mexico, France or Russia. ANIMA DULCIS refers to Mexico City, 1695. Cloistressed cooked chocolate with spices, especially chili there, so it is actually a baroque recipe.

Beautiful intention, but the result differs from the expectations, or connected to the object weirdly. The best point to begin the review of ANIMA DULCIS is, if I compare it to WAZAMBA. It is also opulent, and changes a lot. Immediately strengthens fruits after donning, just to turn in an obscene odor in a twinkle. Mixture of chili and cocoa merges to a cumin-smell. After the juicy first shock I expected a humid fragrance, but ingredients are rather dry. Therefore it gets separated from Wazamba at this stage, Wazamba stays in the jungle, Anima Dulcis comes to the city.

What an overwhelming, cultured fragrance, a real trump ace on negotiations, powerful, elegant, masculine! Fits to the top 10 000, and even though body chemistry causes differences, ANIMA DULCIS is still a brutal perfume. If you have to do something, that you do not want, but can not avoid, and you have to collect bravery in your soul, of course you can support yourself with a fragrance like this.

After a big battle, the perfume fades for a while, but the base shows a stronger finale, a noble, spicy, Christmas-like winter evening.

I donned ANIMA DULCIS. As I experienced so far, donned perfumes are less spicy, so I am pretty sure, that you can expect from bottle with spray-top an even more spicy and masculine version.

06/03/2025

4.5
Scent

Deja1sabel
337 Reviews

Deja1sabel

1

dry spice cabinet

dry, savory, and spiced opening with virtually no sweetness. It's a bit too savory for my liking (note breakdown is missing oregano + sesame, which you get heavily). As the scent develops you do get a floral jasmine touch, but the dry, earthy spice maintains with the underlying savory touch which just isn't my cup of tea. I don't get any of the sweet notes aside from a dry cocoa in the dry down.

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