Fantôme

Fantôme is a small independent American perfume house, queer- and women-owned, that handcrafts its compositions in limited quantities — formulating, pouring, and bottling each release in-house rather than working through industrial fillers. The brand began releasing publicly around 2021 and remains intentionally small in scale. The stylistic register leans gothic and atmospheric: smoke, leather, blackcurrant, dark florals, incense, and resinous bases recur, often paired with literary or cinematic references. The packaging is sober — apothecary-style flacons and minimal labels — and the catalogue is short enough that each scent reads as a deliberate statement rather than a line filler. Distribution is largely direct-to-consumer and through a handful of US niche retailers. Fantôme suits wearers drawn to artisan American perfumery in the lineage of CB I Hate Perfume or House of Matriarch, where authorial voice and small-batch production are the point.