You felt something leave, but you couldn’t say what. A warmth pulled backward into the trees. A breath that never returned.
There are departures without sound.
Disappearances that don’t scream,
but hush the world around them.
The Veil is a fragrance of absence.
A vapor-trail of skin and shadow, of life just past the veil.
At its heart, the earthy ghost of matsutake mushroom, damp, sacred, feral. A forest floor still warm where something once lay.
It rises in curls, mingling with soft decay and the afterglow of breath.
Threaded through the scent: musk apparitions, invisible, instinctive, fleshless yet intimate. They whisper of bodies remembered rather than seen, sensual but faded, like the trace of sheets after sleep.
The air is dim. The sky has swallowed its light.
And something, someone, has gone.
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.
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
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.
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.
