Fantôme is an independent perfume house creating evocative fragrances inspired by the paranormal, mythology, fantasy, the occult, and the often-overlooked threads of magic woven throughout human history. Based in the United States and co-owned by married couple Bree and Megan Elliott, Fantôme has been creating small-batch perfumes since 2017, with each fragrance designed to tell its own story through scent.

The name Fantôme comes from the French word for “ghost”, reflecting the house's fascination with the mysterious, supernatural, and unseen. Rather than treating perfume simply as something to wear, Fantôme uses fragrance to explore places, stories, memories, folklore, and imagined worlds.

Bree Elliott is the perfumer behind the house, formulating every fragrance and drawing inspiration from her experiences living and travelling in places including Russia, Japan, Ukraine, and Italy. Her early fascination with perfume began with childhood attempts to create fragrances from rose petals and garden plants, eventually developing into a serious study of perfumery and a distinctive creative practice. Megan brings her background in small-business management to the operational side of the house, overseeing the organisation, production, and fulfilment that supports Fantôme's creative work.

Fantôme's collections are built around carefully researched themes and stories. The Japan Collection recreates scent memories from Bree's time in Japan, drawing inspiration from places and experiences including Gion, Namba, and traditional Japanese temples. The Slavic Fairy Tale Collection explores characters and worlds from Slavic folklore, while the Goetia Collection takes inspiration from the history and imagery surrounding the Ars Goetia. The Spiritualism Collection explores another side of the supernatural through historical spiritualist themes.

The fragrances themselves range from delicate florals and atmospheric woods to incense, resins, musk, gourmand accords, smoke, earth, and unusual conceptual compositions. Fantôme's scent catalogue demonstrates the house's ability to turn an abstract idea or memory into a detailed olfactory landscape. From the forest atmosphere of Duende to the Japanese cityscape imagined in Namba, each perfume offers its own distinct world.

Fantôme's perfumes are hand-blended and bottled in-house in small batches using a combination of high-quality natural and synthetic fragrance materials. The house offers both perfume oils and alcohol-based extrait de parfums, with both formats made at an extrait concentration of approximately 30 to 40% fragrance compounds.

The house also takes a deliberately considered approach to its catalogue. Rather than relying on seasonal or limited releases, Fantôme's collections are designed to remain permanent, allowing the brand to develop each theme carefully and giving its fragrances a lasting place within the wider collection.

Fantôme represents a particularly imaginative side of independent perfumery, where fragrance becomes a way of exploring folklore, history, travel, fantasy, and the supernatural. These are perfumes for those who want more than a conventional scent profile and enjoy discovering the story, atmosphere, and world hidden within a fragrance.

At The Perfume Apothecary, we curate Fantôme perfume samples in the UK for fragrance lovers looking to discover independent, atmospheric, and hard-to-find niche perfumes. Explore a collection where folklore, fantasy, memory, and the supernatural are transformed into immersive scent experiences.