GHOSTS DISCOVERY SET
LIMITED EDITION • In special collaboration with the Kunstmuseum’s exhibition 'Ghosts' we have created 500 limited edition discovery sets that explore the scent of the supernatural and ask the question "what do ghosts smell like"? Experience five spirited fragrances that blur the boundaries between the living and the departed using rare resins, ghostly botanicals, and antique musks that conjure the unseen visitors.
EKTOPLASMA: Strange, phantom and once of the flesh - Black water lotus combines with mate absolute, animalic ambergris, and wool grease.
THE VEIL: A vapor-trail of skin and shadow - Matsutake mushroom combines with invisible musks that drift like an echo.
IN BETWEEN: The threshold between presence and absence. Damp oakmoss, vetiver, frankincense, labdanum, and ambrettolide.
POLTERGEIST: The scent of a chaotic spirit, a sacred disturbance. Mysterious wormwood blend with scorched birch tar, verdant galbanum, and fossilized amber.
FANTASMINO: A mischievous vapor, both playful and innocent. Burnt sugars and smoke woven with violets and electricity.
LAYER WITH
This set includes five 2mL samples, perfect for layering, or gifting. Only 500 of these sets were made, so they'll be available for a limited time only! Once they're gone, they will be gone forever.
EKTOPLASMA: The body trembles, the veil thins. Something seeps through. There is a moment during the séance when breath stills and the air thickens with presence. This is that presence made scent. Strange, phantom and once of the flesh - Black water lotus combines with mate absolute, animalic ambergris, and wool grease. *PLEASE NOTE: Wool grease is extracted from the animal's wool after shearing. No sheep or lambs are harmed in the process, however this would still be considered non-vegan, as it is produced by an animal.
THE VEIL: You felt something leae, but you couldn't say what. The Veil is a fragrance of absence. A vapor-trail of skin and shadow. The earthy ghost of Matsutake mushroom combines with invisible musks that drift like an echo.
IN BETWEEN: Not quite here. Not quite gone. The threshold between presence and absence, this is a fragrance suspended in the seam between worlds. It begins with cool green Siberian fir, then a heart of damp oakmoss and vetiver root give way to a base of frankincense, labdanum, and ambrettolide.
POLTERGEIST: The scent of a chaotic spirit, a sacred disturbance. A bold blend of mysterious wormwood with scorched birch tar, smoky cade, verdant galbanum, and fossilized amber - This is no soothing forest. It's the forest alive, watching, rattling from the inside.
FANTASMINO: A little ghost. A flicker. A laugh in an empty corridor. Fantasmino is a mischievous vapor, both playful and innocent. Burnt sugars and smoke are woven with violets and electricity for a scent that's both lovely and slightly disturbing.
BEGIN IN STILLNESS:
Ghosts don't respond to command. They arrive when the body is quiet and the breath is deep.
CHOOSE WITH INSTINCT:
Each perfume is a presence. Some gentle, some strange, some bold. Let the one that calls to you reveal itself.
APPLY TO THE PLACES WHERE YOU FEEL MOST HUMAN:
Pulse points. Throat. Chest. Fabric worn close.
THESE ARE LIVING MATERIALS; THEY WILL WARM, BREATHE, AND CHANGE:
Let it evolve. Natural essences bloom differently than synthetics. They open slowly, move unpredictably, and fade like a memory: beautifully and with mystery.
EXPECT PRESENCE, NOT PERMANENCE:
These scents are apparitions. They do not cling, they haunt. You may forget they're there until a breeze stirs something.
No phthalates • No parabens • No synthetic dyes • No formaldehyde • Cruelty-free
At Heretic, we prefer the real thing over synthetics whenever possible. Our handcrafted fragrances are blended in organic sugarcane alcohol, with real botanical extracts that harness the wild beauty and functional benefits of nature. These plant-based ingredients possess the therapeutic powers of the extracts they contain, like the calming effects of jasmine or the uplifting properties of citrus oils.
Scent is our most ancient and primal sense, capable of conjuring memory, emotion, and atmosphere more vividly than sight or sound. What might a ghost smell like? Not as metaphor or illusion, but as experience.
Apparitions do not walk, they drift. They do not speak, but they are felt. So too is scent. It moves like breath through an empty room. It clings to silence. It alters the air. Invisible, but undeniable. Ephemeral, yet unforgettable.
"Could I distill the moment when the air grows dense, when breath stills and you feel something just out of reach? Could I bottle the tremble of a presence, the scent of the unseen? In approaching this work, I imagined scent as ectoplasm — ephemeral, shifting, impossible to hold. I worked with materials that speak in whispers: incense resins that curl like spectral tendrils, antique musks that evoke the past living within the present, and ghostly botanicals, vetiver roots, iris absolute, and fragments of smoky myrrh, that fade and return like a half-remembered dream. The process was not formulation. It was communion. I wanted these scents to haunt. To stir the marrow, to blur the boundaries between the living and the departed. to make the skin prickle, not from fear, but from that strange and holy sense of being watched, or perhaps, accompanied. This is not a perfume in the traditional sense. It is a ritual. A doorway. An offering to the unknown. I invite you to inhale slowly, eyes half-closed, and let your body become the vessel. Who knows what, or who, might answer back?" -DL
RETURNS: We only accept returns for defective or damaged products. If you’d like to sample the fragrance first, we recommend you start with one of our Discovery Sets or take our Fragrance Finder Quiz for a personally recommended scent.
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RADICALLY TRANSPARENT
We aren’t afraid to bare it all. We list every single ingredient in every single fragrance.
SAFE, NATURAL INGREDIENTS
No phthalates • No parabens • Non-toxic • Always vegan friendly & cruelty-free
GENDER NEUTRAL
Fragrances shouldn’t be assigned a specific gender, which is why all our scents can be worn by anyone.
