Jeffrey

"I had these obsessive desires and thoughts that I tried to control, but I couldn't. I was definitely possessed. I killed not because I was angry with them, not because I hated them, but because I wanted to keep them with me, and as my obsession grew, I preserved parts of their bodies like skulls and skeletons."
Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer murdered seventeen men. He drew them in with calm and kindness, then drugged them, took their lives, and preserved them. Some he drew, others he photographed. He sought to keep them forever. Before the court, he declared: "I did not act out of hate." He said he did it out of love—from an uncontrollable need to possess, to not be abandoned, to keep with him what would otherwise vanish.
In that obsession, something paranormal was born: the coexistence of two presences in the same body, two inseparable and warring natures. It is in this suspended space that Jeffrey emerges—the second fragrance in the world dedicated to a serial killer and the second chapter of Spiritica's Crime Collection.
A fragrance that investigates the double, the divided mind, the tension between light and darkness.
The composition was created through collaborative effort. Founder Daniele Muratori Caputo worked alongside master perfumers Paolo Cerizza and Lorenzo Orlandi Berti to construct a complex and disturbing olfactory balance, in which coldness and sweetness alternate like states of mind.
The opening is cutting, cold, almost clinical: iced beer, popper accord, white orange, live yeast, acidic aldehydes. It is the smell of the everyday cracking apart, of a clean surface hiding the abyss.
The heart descends into memory: soiled carpet, clove, coagulated blood, human sweat, sharp blade. Scents that linger in the air like presences, like traces of the paranormal, like residue from a mind that no longer distinguishes between dream and reality.
The base is sweet, oppressive, unsettling: melted plastic, damp cellar, amber, birch, vetiver. It is the final caress, the scent of possession and dependency. A love that does not liberate, that tightens, that wants to survive even beyond the end.
Special recognition is due to Lorenzo and his team at Only the Dreamers for creating a uniquely crafted cap with flocked finishing and subsequent laser work—particularly designed to emulate the carpet of Jeffrey's apartment.
Jeffrey is an extreme olfactory work. A narrative of attraction and annihilation, of tenderness and madness. A fragrance that does not merely evoke: it remains, it breathes, it takes possession.
It is not a commercial product. It is an artistic creation, free and conscious, using the language of fragrance as a medium for narrative and introspection. Like a film or book, Jeffrey tells, provokes, and invites reflection. It is wearable art, a fragment of disturbed and real humanity transformed into sensory experience.
The founder also consulted with Daniela Cavallo, a legal scholar and criminologist, who helped define the behavioral profile and narrative dimension of the project.
As she states: "Fragrance becomes a dialogue of 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 yet capable of evoking, at the same time, a sensation of warmth: a man's embrace."
After his capture, Jeffrey Dahmer declared himself completely guilty. He chose to cooperate with the investigation and asked the judge for the death penalty—a sentence that was not imposed because it was not available in that state.

Top Notes
Iced Beer
Popper Accord
White Orange
Live Yeast
Acidic Aldehydes
Heart Notes
Soiled Carpet
Clove
Coagulated Blood
Human Sweat
Sharp Blade
Base Notes
Melted Plastic
Damp Cellar
Amber
Birch
Vetiver