Nosferatu Heretic 2024 Eau de Parfum

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7.3 / 10 79 Ratings

A new and limited perfume by Heretic for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is earthy-floral. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Earthy

Floral

Aquatic

Fresh

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Ambrette

Lilac

Heart Notes

Petrichor

Violet absolute Cypriol

Cypriol

Orris concrete

Base Notes

Labdanum

Oud

Ambergris

Perfumer

Douglas Little

Ratings

Scent

7.379 Ratings

Longevity

5.963 Ratings

Sillage

5.560 Ratings

Bottle

7.557 Ratings

Value for money

6.155 Ratings

Submitted by DRKSHDW, last update on 07/19/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance was created in cooperation with Focus Features on the occasion of the 2024 remake of “Nosferatu, a symphony of horror”.

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Steamed Rainbow

Reviews

15 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/13/2024

Mlleghoul
445 Reviews

Mlleghoul

Helpful Review 8

fragments of a dream

As I have been wearing this fragrance, I am struck by how nothing seems quite linear about it, how delicately "outside of time" it feels. I realized it reminded me of the feeling I have after waking up and trying to recall the dream I was just having. I am half-here, half-there, both places and neither at once.

Nosferatu is like that--fragments from last night's dreams, scrawled in the grey dawn before they fade: the moon's reflection in cooling bathwater. Soft fog, carved from shadow, packed with frost. A brittle wisp of dried lilac, phantasmal at twilight, fragile rustles of the restless dead. Storm-struck stone, its hollow sparking echo dimly illuminating a subterranean cavern, ghost light lingering between vespers, dawn, and never. The creeping moss of midnight rains veining the marble tears of weeping saints.

04/17/2025

Byrehoe
195 Reviews

Byrehoe

Helpful Review 3

sepulchre stone

Wilted purple petals, fresh turned soil, a shroud of petrichor rising from sepulchre stone. This is one of the most transportive scents I’ve met, and surprisingly wearable too. Few fragrances capture the sensation of coldness so well. This is the feeling of forging through a fog bank, damp earth underfoot. And… cucumber? (Don’t question it). It works splendidly and saves the fragrance from feeling too moldery or dank. As otherworldly as Nosferatu is, I’d argue it’s also totally office safe: at the end of the day this is still a clean, soft-spoken floral. Inside of you are two wolves: the dewy-eyed solicitor and the demon rat man. And they both wear this.

Longevity is the best I’ve gotten out of a Heretic (>5h), but in the end I decided to spring for the candle rather than the fragrance, as I felt it was I scent I enjoyed more filling a room than carried on skin. It was obscenely expensive, but then again... I am an appetite, nothing more.

Mental Snapshot: What can I imagine that Eggers hasn’t? I like to think this is the scent shored within Ellen’s locket, as perceived by Orlok. Desiccated bouquets and powdered flesh, steeped in the rain and earth from a weeks long voyage, now magnified hundredfold to the nose of an ageless predator.

tl;dr: you must spritz it on *wheeeeeezzeee* crazy style

12/01/2024

5
Pricing 9
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 7.5
Scent

DRKSHDW
87 Reviews

DRKSHDW

4

NOSFERATU ON A SPRING PICNIC WITH A BOUQUET OF FRESH LILACS

Unexpected! I thought this fragrance would evoke the earthy, damp scent of a moldy cellar or a musty basement. Instead, it’s a crystalline, wet floral. It opens with a soil-and-dirt earthiness — like mud after a rainstorm — but the petrichor note is subtle, clean, and refined. It's a cold, watercolor floral composition. The lilac is delicate and lovely, reminiscent of the white lilac variety. It’s not warm or indolic but instead evokes a cool Victorian gothic aesthetic — think white lace and pale skin in the moonlight...

(Though I wouldn’t be surprised if Nosferatu was lurking in the shadows, sniffing the lilacs like a romantic undead botanist)

The violet is refreshingly photorealistic, neither powdery, sweet, nor candy-like. It’s as if spring violets are blooming fresh and pure in a dewy meadow. I didn't get any iris, oud or labdanum.

The packaging is stunning, featuring a tasteful gothic font and a Nosferatu sigil atop the cap. Minimalistic and elegant, it also includes a charmingly old-fashioned black-and-white promotional newspaper that tells the story of the film, the perfume notes, and the perfumer.

The fragrance isn’t spooky, though. Depending on your perspective, it could evoke fresh flowers laid on a freshly dug grave — or equally, watercolor Easter blooms in the midst of a spring rain. As a big fan of the original Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror — the 1922 silent German expressionist vampire classic — I find this fragrance to be an intriguing tribute. The trailer for the new film hints at a different story, and I noticed a bouquet of lilacs featured prominently in it. The lilac note, therefore, makes perfect sense. Who knew vampires could be floral enthusiasts? Just don’t expect to smell garlic anytime soon!

04/10/2025

2
Pricing 5
Bottle 4
Sillage 6
Longevity 3
Scent

Succubee
2 Reviews

Succubee

3

A Melancholic Misstep

There exists a fine line between avant-garde olfactory artistry and aromatic misjudgment. Heretic Perfumes' "Nosferatu" unfortunately falls decidedly into the latter category.

One approaches niche perfumery with an open mind, understanding that challenging compositions often reward patience. However, "Nosferatu" offers no such redemption. The fragrance opens with what I can only describe as the olfactory equivalent of unearthing a stack of newspapers left to decay beneath a leaking cellar window—damp, musty, and immediately off-putting.

As the scent develops, it reveals a disconcerting terrarium-like quality reminiscent of a reptile enclosure long overdue for maintenance. The mossy, earthy notes that might have provided contemplative depth instead conjure the unsettling atmosphere of confined reptiles and their unattended habitat.

What proves most disappointing is not the conceptual boldness—one appreciates the gothic reference and the courage to explore darker, soil-bound elements—but rather the execution, which induces a physiological aversion rather than intellectual curiosity. The composition triggered a wave of nausea that persisted well after attempting to scrub the scent from my skin.

Heretic's portfolio contains several worthy olfactory explorations, which makes "Nosferatu" all the more perplexing.One wonders if perhaps the perfumer became too enamored with the namesake's mythology and lost perspective on wearability. While perfume need not be conventionally pleasant to be artistically significant, it should not actively repel its wearer.

Those seeking gothic or earthy compositions would be better served exploring other options in the niche market that manage to convey atmospheric darkness without veering into the realm of physical discomfort.

02/05/2025

4
Pricing 8
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Aufvvachen
2 Reviews

Aufvvachen

2

I keep coming back

On the afternoon my bottle arrived, I quickly tore into the packaging, bypassing the admittedly gorgeous presentation because I just HAD to get my nose on it as quickly as possible.

The bottle was cold to the touch, having sat on my porch for several hours in the winter air making the whole thing feel perhaps heavier than usual. At first sniff, It was odd, even off putting. The petrichor and earthiness with sharp and demanding, and unmistakably smelled like damp wet crumbling stone. Having grown up around many limestone karst caves, the smell was instantly familiar.

However after a brief amount of time on the skin, the floral, musky, resinous notes began to open up, mixing with the damp stone to create some beautiful tension. The warmth of the base and the lightness of the floral notes paired against the sharp, cold, demanding stone notes such a pleasant contrast that I keep going back for more. The floral notes themselves even feel somewhat haunting.

The tension between the unpleasantness and pleasantness captures the essence of the film exactly.

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