Made by SPIRITICA (Milan, Italy)

Perfumer: Paolo Cerizza

Homemade soap and blood orange fizz with caustic brightness, sterile yet edged with menace. Delicate sweetness follows — warm biscuits, Chantilly cream, and raspberry syrup melt on the tongue before the metallic lacings of blood filter through the dough. Domestic duty clumsily masks violence. Beneath, oud smolders with sulfur’s acrid bite, dark chocolate bitter as guilt, ambergris lending an unsettling depth. The facade collapses, revealing her crimes, grotesque and deranged.

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Notes—
Top: Homemade Soap, Blood Orange, Caustic Soda Accord, Black Pepper, Blood
Heart: Chantilly Cream, Homemade Biscuits, Raspberry Syrup, Metallic Notes
Base: Oud, Sulfur, Dark Chocolate, Ambergris

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She killed, dismembered and boned 3 women. She used their fat to make bars of soap. She dried their blood in the oven in order to crumble it into a dough and create delicious biscuits to offer to her friends with tea.
She is Leonarda Cianciulli. The first Italian serial killer also known as the “soapmaker of Correggio” who, victim of superstition, driven by a morbid and aberrant maternal love, wanted to sacrifice the lives of 3 women:
In this way she believed she was appeasing the evil spirits who, according to the prophecies of a sorceress, were to kill her children.

Spiritica, the brand of luxury paranormal perfumes, wants to olfactorily tell the story of this very complex historical character and does so with LEONARDA: the first fragrance of the CRIME COLLECTION. The conceptual idea was born from Daniele Muratori Caputo, the founder of the brand, in collaboration with the influencer, a great expert in both perfumes and criminal psychology, Ariosto.

The perfumer who managed to masterfully convey the ideas of the olfactory pyramid is Paolo Cerizza.
A clear and unusual opening of Marseille soap immediately makes us think of something clean and strange, combined with the sparkliness of a peppery accord that recalls caustic soda, but the rich dirty, intricate, dusty and sweetly gourmand background makes us predict something secretly: disturbing and accommodating at the same time.

Leonarda is a powerful fragrance, which communicates uniqueness and madness. In the heart, the welcoming and succulent notes of fresh Chantilly cream combine with the typical smell of homemade biscuits. Biscuits, however, have a surprise: inside them the raspberry syrup mixes with the opening notes of clotted blood, thus creating an explosive accord that is sweet and ferrous at the same time.

But the real icing is in the base notes, with an opulent and impactful Oud, which, mixing with accords of dark chocolate and alchemical notes that recall sulphur, opens the doors to a dark and unexplored area.

A very powerful extract that will not fail to generate in anyone a truly new, unique, very long-lasting and memorable silage. With Leonarda we want to go beyond the judgment of what is right or wrong: inviting people to see things with new eyes. Leonarda is a perfume that integrates madness with love. Which unites that thin thread that links crime to justice. A controversial and polarising new luxury fragrance. Despite having admitted having carried out the 3 murders, Leonarda Cianciulli has always considered herself innocent in front of the law.

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Name: Spiritica Leonarda Extrait 50ml
Brand: Spiritica
SKU: 22097
Availability: InStock

SPIRITICA

Spiritica was founded in Milan in 2023 by Italian visionary Daniele Muratori Caputo, known in the fragrance community as NasoDani. A lifelong fragrance enthusiast, Daniele created the brand to explore scent as a medium for personal storytelling and spiritual expression.

From the beginning, Daniele envisioned Spiritica as a dialogue between tradition and modernity. His perfumes draw inspiration from historical uses of scent – incense, resins, and botanicals – while employing contemporary perfumery techniques and materials. His compositions balance natural ingredients with innovative synthetics, upholding a cruelty-free ethos that excludes animal-derived materials.

The ILLUMINATA Collection is inspired by spiritually charged places and moments, with each scent linked to a specific the location. In contrast, the CRIME Collection delves into darker narratives. Its debut fragrance, Leonarda (2024), is named after Leonarda Cianciulli, the infamous “Soap-Maker of Correggio.” Developed in collaboration with perfumer Paolo Cerizza, it juxtaposes unsettling references with rich accords.

The brand’s visual identity mirrors Daniele’s fascination with symbolism and design. Packaging incorporates references to geometry, spirituality, and cultural heritage, reinforcing the deeper themes behind each scent. As an independent founder, Daniele personally oversees every stage of the creative process – from concept to production. Spiritica produces in limited batches, ensuring close attention to detail and craftsmanship.

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