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Odori d'Anima

Id Mendittorosa 2012

7.7 / 10 109 Ratings

A popular perfume by Mendittorosa for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Floral

Oriental

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Ravansara

Heart Notes

Jasmine

Clove

Violet

Iris

Nutmeg

Base Notes

Labdanum

Birch

Ceylonese cinnamon

Siam benzoin

Precious woods

White musk

Ambroxan

Indonesian patchouli Oud

Oud

Perfumer

Amélie Bourgeois

Ratings

Scent

7.7109 Ratings

Longevity

8.086 Ratings

Sillage

6.886 Ratings

Bottle

8.188 Ratings

Value for money

6.517 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 06/03/2025.

Interesting Facts

The name of the fragrance is inspired by the local's nickname for the volcano on the island of Stromboli – Iddu.

The fragrance is part of the Odori d'Anima collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Oud 777

Timbuktu

Attaquer Le Soleil - Marquis de Sade

Reviews

11 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/20/2016

AromaX
33 Reviews

AromaX

Very helpful Review 6

A meditation on a lava stone.

Wearing Id by Mendittorosa is like following a guided meditation where my olfactory impression of the scent replicates the story behind the perfume.

Charcoal darkness of warm porous lava stone, soothing sound of sea lapping against the rocks, caressing warmth of the midday sun weakened by the clouds and a lot of space filled with the calming loneliness. A picture drawn without colors but rather with contrasts and slight tints added to the greyscale.

A perfect meditation place where the metallic mineral odor of lava stone surface mixes with the smell of salt from drying sea drops.

Being there makes me aware about the dark layers slowly flowing under the surface of my subconsciousness. They are so close, I can almost touch them. So close, the feeling that reminds me of the song So Close by Ólafur Arnalds.

In Id I can barely recognize the components it's made of. Well, I can smell labdanum, cinnamon and the metalic oud aspect the most, but inside this scent they are playing the roles and each of them lends its aspects into the total picture which is different than just a sum of the components.

04/14/2015

6Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Drseid
828 Reviews

Drseid

Very helpful Review 7

Immediate Satisfaction, Left Wanting...

Id opens with slightly muted sweetened cinnamon with a jasmine floral undertone before quickly moving to its heart. As the composition enters its early heart the cinnamon gains strength, becoming more vociferous as time passes with the jasmine remaining in support, adding in hints of ginger and deep clove spice infused relatively sweet vague woods into the mix. During the late dry-down the cinnamon and clove recede, leaving their remnants to join faint hints of slightly peppery labdanum forming the relatively transparent base. Projection is on the low side of average, as is longevity at about 6-7 hours on skin.

Id represents yet another outing by Mendittorosa where the composition starts off relatively impressive, this time with a fine cinnamon, jasmine and clove trio before losing ground considerably in the late dry-down. Speaking of the late dry-down, it almost isn't there. The composition is near baseless, with the primary notes and accords falling apart in relatively short order. Considering the composition is listed on the company web site as being an extrait, the relatively shoddy performance of now two compositions in a row from the house is starting to show a disturbing trend. Also somewhat troubling is the lack of consistency in the company's product description on its web site to the actual product packaging. The descriptions all say "extrait", but the bottles all say "Eau de Parfum"... Hmm... In truth, the two compositions that have received complete wearings on skin so far perform even worse than either classification, so it is difficult to know what to believe. Oh well, at the end of the day, Id is another "good but not great" release from Mendittorosa that is pleasant enough but needs some more work on its base and distinctiveness. The bottom line is the 185 Euro per 100ml bottle Id seems highly top-loaded, satisfying early but ultimately leaving one wanting, earning a "good" 3 stars out of 5 rating and a recommendation with some reservation.

09/28/2020

Pepdal
238 Reviews

Pepdal

2

Me and Iddu

My second review from the house of Mendittorosa, this time from the Odori d'Anima line.
Id was inspire by the volcano on the island of Stromboli north of Sicily. Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoy the review.

06/03/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Luxuriously 'white'

Id's opening is so beautiful that I keep applying the sample over and over again on the same spot to cycle back to it. It smells luxuriously 'white' to me - a smooth, creamy mass of velvety musks whipped up with a drop of phantom fruit (plum? apple?), anise, a white chocolate patchouli note, and a sort of spiced cream dessert, like kulfi or rice pudding (slightly browned milk skin, that light dusting of cinnamon) - but it is undercut with a surprisingly animalic element, like the salty, mammalian funk of ambergris.

I love it. It smells so clean and skin-like, with a powdery, chewy mochi-like bounce, that I think it would not be out of place in the Egyptian musk line up of the Narciso Rodriguez line up (the fluffy cashmere sweater genre of the perfume world). It also smells very close to the white, anisic, floral airy-creamy-musky puffiness of Histoires de Parfum's 1826, a perfume I really love. But then, the slightly dusty-milky cinnamon, clove, and benzoin tandem makes me think of papiers d'Armenie and therefore of Lui by Guerlain, therefore there's probably a lot of associative bias at play in my fondness for Id. Obviously I have a type.

What elevates Id beyond this 'type' I always fall for is that current of something dirty and borderline plasticky underneath the creamy mass of flowers, spice, and resin. It is almost Oud 27-esque, except not as feral. But the idea is there and it is so damn attractive to me.

12/28/2015

8Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Palonera
467 Reviews

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Palonera

Top Review 46

Identify me.

When I was a child, a small, single-digit one, back in the early seventies, when the little dove was not yet a dove and the world was still big and colorful and loud, that was when I met him for the first time.
He was stuck in the little black spools that my mother and her brother placed in those boxes from which, as they said, a little bird would come, which never came.
The one I wanted to search for and free on that day when I crawled under Grandma's sewing table, secretly, darkly sensing that there would be scolding, for "that's a camera and not a toy!" I had been sternly admonished.
But the little bird, the poor thing, which was surely trapped in that tight box, made me, a little girl, so very sad that I pushed aside every thought of possible punishment and pressed and fiddled until a little door popped open on the device.
Behind it, of course, there was no bird, just a shiny black film stretched between two spools.
It would be underneath, I thought, and pulled at the black film, which grew longer and longer and emitted a strange smell, sharp and dark and piercing and different from anything I had smelled before.
Celluloid - but I couldn't know that back then.
I never found the little bird, but I often encountered the smell later at film screenings, slide shows, and in my school's photo lab, finally in an overdosed "Chambre Noire" and during the very first test of "Id".

Sharp and foreign and exhausting it seemed to me, this first impression, and yet familiar and part of me at the same time.
Bridging decades with just one breath - old images emerge from the nothingness of consciousness, mixing with cinema and fantasy.
Celluloid, flint, rough rocks, dull gray light.
Desolate almost, only almost.
Do I like this, do I want this, can I do this?
Do I understand this?
Questions, riddles, fascination.
"Id" is special in these hours, very special - a demanding scent, up and out, provocative and also motivating, to follow it on its path, no matter where it leads.
And it is long, the path, long and longer still...

After a day and a night, "Id" and I meet in a village in Africa - there, where I have never been and yet so often.
Every time my path leads me there, when "Idole de Lubin" hovers by my side, that dark, bitter, spicy warm Eau de Parfum, which sets me night after night by the flickering fire of the village and wraps me in a cloak of wood and resin and smoke, embroidered with bark-brown cinnamon and dark golden fruits, beside me a glass of heavy, sweet rum.
The dance around the fire, the dance on the volcano, lava bubbling just beneath the skin.
Somewhere a camera clicks - a hint of celluloid, perhaps real, perhaps just imagined.

Sometimes "Id" prefers it bright, soft, and silky clean.
Then the scent hugs close to my skin, melts in and becomes the "I-am-you-are-I", to skin and salt and a hint of musk.
Then I do not know: Where does my I end, where does "Id" begin?
Is "Id" a synonym for I, an abbreviation for "identity"?
Then I search and investigate, I guess and sense that I can never know, feel your hand in my hair, your mouth on my skin and forget that there were ever questions.

Always different, always new.
Gray and glowing, cinnamon on dry woods, black night and misty day.
Man and woman, Yin and Yang.
Revealed and yet hidden, wet stones, red tide.
Moving images, mirror shards, dust.
Come here, go away.
And stay with me.
Identify me.

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Statements

30 short views on the fragrance

AromaX

9 years ago

4

It's like meditating on a warm porous black lava stone listening to the soothing sound of the sea, a mix of mineral smell of stone and salt

Sweetsmell75

4 years ago

9Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

27

24

Resins flow golden
over Mother Earth ...
Wood & embers!
Benzoin-cinnamon warm musk clouds -
in a dream
Iris tears softly fall on violet fields

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Schalkerin

4 years ago

6.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

27

18

It's already rumbling, what will the Stromboli spit out today?
Lots of flowers. Jasmine, iris & violets.
Resins, spices, cinnamon, woods.
Let's see tomorrow.

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Floyd

5 years ago

8.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

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19

Ravensara-tea trees
White light of a birch
Clove rain on flower dwarfs
Labdanum runs across the earth
Balsam with bitter benzoin

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UntermWert

4 years ago

8Scent

24

16

Journey to the center of the Earth: puffs of cloves + cinnamon dust
A raft of precious resins + woods floats softly on a carpet of night blooms

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Chizza

4 years ago

7Scent

22

17

Reminds me of a cola variant, the essential oils combined with the nutmeg are very intriguing. The oud has an animalistic-oily quality.

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Bosworth

3 years ago

7Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

17

16

Spiced flowers, with a slight citrus note. Pale wood, hardly any sweetness. Maintains a consistent transparency.

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Profumo

5 years ago

7Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

11

5

Solid labdanum heart garnished with plenty of spice, on beautiful woods. Unfortunately very monotonous, without development & with way too much Ambroxan.

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