
Fantôme
Queer-owned artisan perfumery inspired by mythology and magic.
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.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.





































