She killed, dismembered and boiled three women. She used their fat to make bars of soap, and dried their blood in the oven, crumbling it into dough to create crunchy teacakes for herself and her friends. She was Leonarda Cianciulli, the first Italian serial killer, also known as the "soapmaker of Correggio". Leonarda was driven by a macabre maternal desire to protect her son from harm, which she believed required human sacrifice.
This extrait perfume is an olfactory portrait of Leonarda, part of Spiritica’s Crime Collection. The opening of Marseille soap is clean but strange, combined with the spikiness of a peppery accord that conjures caustic soda. And the dirty, dusty, somewhat stale gourmand background suggests something ominous. Chantilly cream-dipped homemade biscuits reveal a ghastly surprise within: raspberry syrup mixed with notes of clotted blood, oozing a sweet and ferrous odor. The malevolent dissonance continues in the base notes, where oud and dark chocolate combine with sulphur. Leonarda is a perfume that infuses madness with love.
She killed, dismembered and boiled three women. She used their fat to make bars of soap, and dried their blood in the oven, crumbling it into dough to create crunchy teacakes for herself and her friends. She was Leonarda Cianciulli, the first Italian serial killer, also known as the "soapmaker of Correggio". Leonarda was driven by a macabre maternal desire to protect her son from harm, which she believed required human sacrifice.
This extrait perfume is an olfactory portrait of Leonarda, part of Spiritica’s Crime Collection. The opening of Marseille soap is clean but strange, combined with the spikiness of a peppery accord that conjures caustic soda. And the dirty, dusty, somewhat stale gourmand background suggests something ominous. Chantilly cream-dipped homemade biscuits reveal a ghastly surprise within: raspberry syrup mixed with notes of clotted blood, oozing a sweet and ferrous odor. The malevolent dissonance continues in the base notes, where oud and dark chocolate combine with sulphur. Leonarda is a perfume that infuses madness with love.