Ithaka

Ithaka by Mendittorosa is a fragrance for women and men. Ithaka was launched in 2019. The nose behind this fragrance is Camille Chemardin. Top note is Bergamot; middle notes are Incense and Magnolia; base notes are Benzoin, Incense, Cypriol Oil or Nagarmotha, Labdanum, Virginia Cedar and Patchouli. "Versi Studio is a new olfactive trilogy from Mendittorosa exploring the relationship between poetry and perfumery. The first in this trilogy is Ithaka, inspired by the poem Ithaka written by emblematic Greek Poet C. P. Cavafy, first published in 1911. “(…)May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, what joy, you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time; may you stop at Phoenician trading stations to buy fine things, mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony, sensual perfume of every kind— as many sensual perfumes as you can; and may you visit many Egyptian cities to learn and go on learning from their scholars.(…)” P. Cavafy, from C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Each flacon in the Versi trilogy will have a hand-crafted wooden cap and a hand-incised tablet with a symbol unique for each fragrance. For Ithaka it is a small boat in the sea. The flacon is housed as usual in the classical Odori d’Anima wooden box, inspired by emblematic transportation cases used for the protective shipping of art works." - a note from the brand.