Phantasma Eau de Parfum

Wow! Bought blindly as a travel bottle. Astonishing - at first I thought there was a mistake. The initial spray was of gorgeous yellow and white pollinated flowers. For me that’s a ‘yuk’ normally but like all Liquides Imaginaires it wins me over with the build and quality - and for the first time I’ve gone - hmm - I could wear this - damn - it’s female but I can definitely wear this! Then, I snapped out of it - I realised I hadn’t ordered this because I like florals. Then I remembered - it was a tea and some other fresh things as notes. An hour later by the time I refreshed my memory as to the notes and the sticky musky sweetness has subsided enough that I can pull apart the notes - the rice in particular that was misleading my olfactory senses drops back enough that you can see/smell the tea with yuzu over the top backed by wood. A very well made smell and very pleasant - so much so I’d consider a full bottle but maybe not for the full price as I can not imagine wearing it enough other than for a ‘mood’ scent. Easily one of the most impressive brands I’ve had the pleasure to own. This would make the 6th full purchase!

Phantasma is a really wonderful herbal tea scent. In the drydown the yuzu and ginger notes show themselves, and it blends exceptionally well. It smells exactly like a nice, hot cup of green tea. However, I think the bottle and name is unfitting. I care quite a bit about the visuals, and an unfitting bottle can confuse me and throw me off when taking in the scent. This bottle should be green, to tie the story together better, like Liquides Imaginaires usually do well. But that's just an aesthetic critique - the scent is still one of the very best.

As an Asian, this is so far the most realistic eastern tea that I ever scent. Unlike western tea, it's not sweet or floral at all. I don't really like sweet tea. However, I've found out that most tea perfumes are somehow smelled sweet. For tea fragrances, I recommend this one, Blue Tea by The Merchant of Venice (eastern floral tea, not sweet indeed) and Tea Tonique by Miller Harris (lemon + black tea, a little bit sweet but fine for me).

Super safe blind reach for me for work days. Can't see how this can go wrong. Very safe DNA yet it smells slightly unique in a sense. Gotta a lot of good going on all at once. Very much worth the sample. Don't understand the rating it currently has. Slightly masculine ezliabeth arden vibes.

I love it, everything about it, even the atomizer! The only problem is my bottle started to leak during a plane trip, and it was in the cabin with me. That's quite the bummer as the perfume is pretty expensive. Still, i don't exclude buying it again or exploring other Liquides Imaginaires

I like the rice powder note in here, it’s the most prominent note on my skin with the tea playing much more of a background role. It’s an easy reach for me as a casual day time scent.

Wonderful balanced floral-woody chypre with dominant notes of narcissus, clary sage and hazelnut. Slightly animalic, long lasting, but not overly loud. Thumbs way up!

I love the smell so much its tea like its airy its light but i just discovered SC Johnson off! MAX mosquito repellent smells exactly the same as the main note

A beautiful tea scent , soft but also very long lasting

My initial impression of Phantasma is cozy chamomile tea, blooming citrus, ginger, and a hint of savory steamed white rice. There is also something in this fragrance dry down that comes off as powdery with warm woods in the finish. The juniper is barely perceptible to my nose. That's a note that usually turns me away. This is a great intimate tea fragrance that is expertly executed. It's a good book, in a comfy chair, in your best and comfiest loungewear. LLI is a very consistent house and this fragrance is in line with their quality and dedication to niche perfumery. Like most tea fragrances, it is short lived on skin but clings to clothing very well. I don't mind respraying if only for the stress relief.

This is definitely not what i expected, speculatin from the notes It smells very clean and a bit aromatic Remiding me kind of some ceramic or paint I guess I would describe it as musky aromatic but there is not uch tea or rice to be detected, which I was really excited about

Something about the way all these notes blend actually smells like a fresh lilac bush to me. Just resmelled -- I think I initially got lilac bc of that indolic blooming smell going on. It's like lilacs and mothballs with a touch of yuzu.

Tea, green tea, plus ylang-ylang and jasmine. These three are what I mainly pick up; the rice note isn’t very noticeable. The texture is decent, and compared with J-Scent, it’s better.

This one reminds me of Nivea Body lotion although it's has a little sharpness to it. My friends disagree. Only I seem to like it.

Smells a bit like trash but not in a bad way, ever so slightly fermented.

Oh hi, lemon tea! There's plenty of tart black tea from the outset, all given a citrussy lift by the yuzu. It's a spot on rendering of iced tea. I don't know how this relates to the idea of phantasm. Given this house I was expecting wispy, murky weirdness and I got a regular green-leaning tea scent. Dry and a bit austere. This could be a Le Labo, especially with the pale woods in the base, but at a better price. Phantasma is identical on blotter and skin and the note list is a great indicator of the accord. The exception is the rice note which I'm not sure I can detect, perhaps a faintly sweet quality on my skin. I enjoy it more as the woods settle and intensify. Not what I was expecting.

I was put off by the first sniff of Phantasma. It smelled sour in a bad way, like a citrus fruit that's rotten inside. Not charming. But, having learned that not every love is immediate, I tried Phantasma again and again. Mostly just an hour or so before a planned shower, so I could wash it off before it annoyed the bejeezus out of me. When I started to postpone showering for just a little longer, I realized I'd started to love Phantasma. Phantasma is at first a very yellow scent to me, but not an innocent and fresh yellow. I still get an odd, rank citrus. Is it the rice mixed with the yuzu? After about fourty to sixty minutes, it turns sky blue. Fresh and airy, completely irresitible.

In my opinion, this is a well-done, very unique niche fragrance. The notes listed here on Fragrantica- along with the little icons- are exactly what this smells like and the kind of vibe it gives off. Black tea and rice with an intimate, musky feel; slightly bitter and citrusy, with a subtle woody, almost foresty edge. It’s minimalist, but I wouldn’t call it a “clean” scent. As the notes suggest, it has an Eastern feel, and I truly do think it’s great. I just don’t identify with it, and to me, it leans slightly masculine.

The opening is really sharp, not what I expected at all! Also, is there ylang-ylang in it? I cannot stand yellow florals :( Dries down to a powdery jasmine tea scent, which is ok. There are much better scents from LI than this one.

Smells like someone sprayed dirty underwear with bous 1920 Oltremare. Could be worse. It honestly smells like an old man blue fragrance.

Not what I expected unfortunately. On my skin, the tea note is really light and I don't get any projection from it (I smell it only when my nose is right against my skin). Instead I get something powdery and musky on the drydown, and that's what sticks around. Does not project well but lasts a long time, and by then I end up smelling like old soap shavings, baby powder, and cheap jasmine body spray. The search for a lovely, deep black tea fragrance continues... I see that yuzu and rice are listed as notes, but I get neither citrus nor grassy/grainy notes from this - maybe a mistake by Fragrantica?

I genuinely expected to love this, with its promise of black tea and rice, but Phantasma verges on being a scrubber for me. I've revisited this perfume several times over the past year, and it genuinely doesn't get better. It smells very synthetic and pungent in the opening and lingers uncomfortably on skin, never quite settling into a comforting scent. All I get in the dry-down is a disappointing melange of musky, synthetic woods.

Phantasma by Les Liquides Imaginaires – 3/10 I expected something more exciting, but it ended up smelling kind of plain and synthetic. It doesn’t last very long and didn’t develop into anything interesting on my skin. I couldn’t really find anything special in it, so I wouldn’t recommend it.

Big disappointment, smell like an old soap rotten on a sink. No rice, no yuzu just a bad jasmine, very harsh on the nose

To me, it just smells like sweat. Both on paper and on skin.

Absolutely terrible. Like acrid burned tea with soap shavings

smelle like a trash bag, disgusting

This is such a bizzare fragrancem i bought it because i was attracted, to the name the bottle and the brand, however it was almost impossible for me to find out much abiut this anywhere, nor could i find a tester, so i will try and explain well for any potential buyers. okay it does smell green, also quite brown to me ill explain why. these notes mixed with green notes almost gives a grass like a synthetic mild grass like vibe and that combined with the woods to me smells very earthy, i dont know if there is a dirt note in here but the combination if a few does give this subtle earthy dirt like smell. kind of like the air after you have watered your garden or it has rained in your backyard but the dirt note like smell is more subtle than that. it is quite woody, it smells like a scent you would come accross somewhere in nature, like your going through a walk in the forst or but on a dewy day and wafts of flowers are blowing at you in the atmosphere. i would say if people think its sweet maybe its mildy sweet, it doesnt appear so sweet to me, compared to todays version of sweet, i wouldnt neccesarily cal this a sweet fragrance lol. but floral yes. the hazelnut isnt really a sweet hazelnut either more of a realistic one. also i tend to think this smels diferent on skin to clothes and paper. so test well if you do, before buying!. its very niche, i havent quite smelt anything like it before in my opnion, its not for everybody, i would say its safe to wear all year round. not neccesarily a compliment getter as its not generic mass appealing it is interesting though. not so sure about silleage but longetivity is amazing. Oh and by the way worth noting that the notes listed on here are actually wrong thsi fragrance is a green floral with green notes, narcissus, clary sage, woods and hazelnut.!. I think teh notes listed in here are actually another of Liquides Imaginaires fragrances!.

Smooth and Cozy Experience I picked up Phantasma after reading a few compelling reviews here on Fragrantica and finding a great deal online — and I must say, I’m not disappointed. This is a beautiful fragrance to spend a quiet, introspective day with. It features one of the most realistic black tea accords I’ve come across, and I really appreciate how Anne-Sophie Behaghel crafted it here — so different from Russian Tea, which is another favorite in my tea-centered collection. Phantasma leans slightly sweet with a touch of citrus, evoking a gentle Earl Grey vibe that I find incredibly soothing. The opening even reminds me a little of Oltremare by Bois 1920 — especially in the first 15 minutes — though they eventually go in different directions. Still, I find myself enjoying Phantasma more overall. It remains creamy and meditative from start to finish, with the tea note lingering gracefully into the drydown. This isn’t a showstopper or attention-grabber (especially when compared to something like 1272, which I reviewed recently), but it’s a fragrance made more for yourself than for others — ideal for home use, reading, journaling, or even winding down before bed. Both Anne-Sophie Behaghel and Amélie Bourgeois are modern perfumers whose work I deeply admire. They’re still underappreciated compared to more commercial names, but their creations consistently feel thoughtful and layered. I’m grateful to have both Phantasma and Melancolia in my collection — and who knows, maybe one day I’ll complete the trilogy with Lacrima. Here’s to hoping.

Reviewing sample from 2024. Phantasma was launched in 2020. This is a very ethereal woody aromatic scent. Jasmine tea softened by musk.There is a prominent white floral note which becomes indolic . The previous version (white bottle) from 2014 had narcissus and clary sage listed which would make more sense. Also there is no Yuzu here so Fragrantica notes seem incorrect. This dries down to floral green (canary islands juniper) musky woods. I do not find it sour as some have noted. Quality- excellent 4/5 Unisex-leans feminine Performance- stays intimate but lasts 4/5 A gentle floral tea fragrance as light as air. I imagine this worn by a beautiful young geisha in a pale yellow silk kimono walking through cherry blossoms in Kyoto. 8.5/10

...i love this, it makes me feel refreshing, and i LoVe yuzu , so light and refreshing scent, but... just not really on me. The dry down is smoky and dry. And my style usually lean toward more feminine floral fruity and sweet musky kinda scent. If this is on a man, it would be nicer than on me. It could be cos the juniper and the woodsy note, i coudnt detect the ginger note though. But overall i love it. When i first spray it onto the air or i smelled it on my sister i was like ooh nice, it has this opulent, relaxing vibe.

🌾Tea on a Japanese Terrace 🍚 I'm sitting on a wooden terrace, sipping jasmine tea. From the kitchen drifts the quiet, warm, slightly milky scent of cooking rice. The air smells of sun-warmed wood, dry like a summer floor left out in the sun. The tea releases gentle floral notes, but there's something greener in the background—maybe juniper, maybe mint. Underneath it all lies a soft, clean musk. Everything falls into place quietly, like a day with no plans. @the.scent.files

Cozy tea scent, I really like it. Surprised that jasmine is not listed in the notes. As some tea scents, it sits a little soapy. It reminds me also of Blue Tea by The Merchant of Venice, although I think that one is a little more floral and complex.

Fantastic like Mr. Boombastic !! Nice hot pot of white rice steaming up next to some black tea steaming up together . Making this fragrance savory and smells good. —> https://youtube.com/shorts/hXA7Xhx6GaI?si=8TxARTBjtok8SHhP YouTube : NILPSIN

Smells like eating rice pudding and a cup of fragrant jasmine tea on a rainy day. Comforting and soft, not overpowering.

It a just okay-tea scent with a flat woody hint, and there's some rice nuance on the top note. the price is ludicrous.

I smell nothing but rubber doll head Is it just my nose? Everyone else smells tea? Am I having a stroke?