JEFFREY - SPIRITICA

JEFFREY - SPIRITICA

43.042272°N, -87.944846°W

Top notes: Ice-cold beer, popper accord, white orange, live yeast, acidic aldehydes
Heart notes: Dirty carpet, carnation, clotted blood, human sweat, sharp blade
Base notes: Melted plastic, damp basement, amber, birch, vetiver

“I had these desires and obsessive thoughts that I tried to control, but I couldn't. I was definitely possessed. I didn't kill because I was angry with them, or because I hated them, but because I wanted to keep them with me and, as my obsession grew, I kept parts of their bodies, like skulls and skeletons.”

Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer killed seventeen men. He lured them in calmly and kindly, then drugged them, took their lives, and kept them. He drew some of them and photographed others. He tried to keep them forever. In court, he stated: “I did not act out of hatred.” He said he did it out of love, out of an uncontrollable need to possess, not to be abandoned, to keep with him what would otherwise have disappeared.

From this obsession came something paranormal: the coexistence of two presences in the same body, two inseparable natures at war. It is in this suspended space that Jeffrey is born, the second fragrance in the world dedicated to a serial killer and the second chapter of the Crime Collection by Spiritica. A fragrance that explores the double, the divided mind, the tension between light and darkness.

The composition is the result of collective work. In addition to founder Daniele Muratori Caputo, perfumers Paolo Cerizza and Lorenzo Orlandi Berti collaborated to create a complex and unsettling olfactory balance, where coldness and softness alternate like states of mind.

The opening is sharp, cold, almost clinical: ice-cold beer, popper accord, white orange, live yeast, acidic aldehydes. It is the smell of everyday life cracking open, of the clean surface hiding the abyss.

The heart is a descent into memory: dirty carpet, carnation, clotted blood, human sweat, sharp blade. Scents that remain suspended in the air like presences, like paranormal traces, like the residue of a mind that no longer distinguishes between dream and reality.

The base is soft, oppressive, unsettling: melted plastic, damp basement, amber, birch, vetiver. It is the final caress, the scent of possession and dependence. Love that does not set free, that tightens its grip, that wants to survive even beyond the end.

Special mention must also be made of the work done by Lorenzo (and his team) at Only the dreamers, who created a one-of-a-kind cap in the world, with a flocked and then laser-engraved treatment, highly distinctive, that precisely imitates the carpet of Jeffrey's apartment.

Jeffrey is an extreme olfactory work. A story of attraction and destruction, tenderness and madness. A fragrance that does not merely evoke: it lingers, breathes, takes hold.

It is not a commercial product. It is an artistic creation, free and conscious, which uses the language of fragrance as a means of storytelling and introspection. Like a film or a book, Jeffrey tells a story, provokes, and invites reflection. It is a work of art to wear, a fragment of disturbed and real humanity, transformed into a sensory experience.

For the historical and conceptual construction of this fragrance, the founder also sought the advice of Daniela Cavallo, a law graduate and criminologist, who helped define the offender's behavioral profile and the project's narrative dimension.

As she herself states: “Fragrance becomes a dialogue between emotional and narrative stimulus, an artistic work that explores the human soul and its contradictions.” “Dahmer evokes very particular and unconventional notes. It is a narcotic fragrance, cold but capable at the same time of evoking a feeling of warmth: the embrace of a man.”

After being arrested, Jeffrey Dahmer pleaded guilty. He chose to cooperate with investigators and asked the judge for the death penalty, which was not handed down because it was not provided for in that state.