POLTERGEIST

LIMITED EDITION • Part smoke, part wood, and all wild magic. Poltergeist is a blend of sexy galbanum, wormwood, rich ambers, and scorched birch tar for an otherworldly fragrance. Samples available.

Top: Juniper, Pine, Wormwood, Frankincense
Heart: Champaca Flower
Base: Birch Tar, Cade, Cedar, Vanilla, Patchouli, Labdanum, Palo Santo Fruit

FRAGRANCE STORY

Poltergeist is part of our Limited Edition series, meaning it's not available regularly. We make small batches of this fragrance occasionally when its natural ingredients become available. This special release will be available only while supplies last!

Take a late-night motorcycle ride through a lush, dense pine forest with Poltergeist — a fragrance inspired by the physical energy of spirits themselves. But this is no soothing forest, it's the forest alive, watching, rattling from the inside.

A Poltergeist is a chaotic spirit, a sacred disturbance that doesn't haunt gently. This fragrance is one of sharp, herbal charge wrapped in smoke and splinters. It begins with the volatile green shimmer of pine needle and juniper's gin-bite, cold and resinous, cut with the ghostly bitterness of mysterious wormwood (or Artemisia Absinthium, which is the key ingredient in the nefarious drink absinthe). Then the smoke comes: scorched birch tar rising in dark curls, cade oil smoldering at the edges, frankincense burning clean through the middle llike an invocation. Labdanum anchors it all with molten depth: thick, golden, slightly feral.

A limited re-release of one of Douglas Little's first original creations, Poltergeist is back for Fall but only in very limited quantities! This perfume is part smoke, part green, and all wild magic.

HOW TO WEAR A GHOST

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.

Heretic Parfum is a clean fragrance house founded by Douglas Little, the nose behind the iconic Goop candle, built for those who want their scent to say something. Every extrait de parfum is plant-based and free from synthetic musks, parabens, and phthalates, crafted from raw botanicals, resins, and absolutes that evolve on the skin. From the smoky warmth of Midnight Toker to the forest-bathed stillness of Dirty Hinoki, Heretic makes fragrance that is unapologetically sensual and rigorously clean.