Celebrate the fluid nuances of love on a molecular level.
Our world of art & chemistry
Filters:
How do trends come about in perfumery?
Geza Schoen reveals how new aroma chemicals come into existence.
Molecast 25 min listen
Geza Schoen
Molecules
Our World
Trend
Scentgraphy
"What if I could take the molecule and add just one other beautiful ingredient and see how they danced together in the bottle?" — Geza Schoen
Written Article
Art
Molecule 01
Molecules
Our World
Weird, Wacky And Wonderful World Of Olfactory Art
Geza Schoen reminisces on past, ongoing and future collaborations with Karl Lagerfeld, Smeller machine and Icelandic madman.
Molecast 25 min listen
Geza Schoen
Molecules
Our World
Past, Present and Future of Scent Cultures
Scent and culture have had a symbiotic relationship since the dawn of humanity.
Written Article 4 min read
Escentrics
Our World
Fragrance triggers EMotions
Can the woody, patchouli aroma scent of M+ Patchouli really affect our disposition? Award-winning journalist and author Bethan Cole charts the emotions our luxury fragrances evoke.
Written Article 5 min read
Escentrics
Molecules
Our World
What makes a fragrance cult?
Art or alchemy? Accident or design? Grooming journalist Lee Kynaston takes a look at what really elevates a fragrance to cult status.
Written Article 6 min read
Escentrics
Geza Schoen
Molecules
Our World
Trend
EM03 and EM04: Behind Scents
Geza Schoen deconstructs the scents of Javanol and Vetiveryl Acetate, the hero molecules of EM03 and EM04.
Molecast 25 min listen
Geza Schoen
Molecules
Our World
Scentscapes
Sophie Bew, Editor of AnOther Magazine, deconstructs the notion of scentscapes — redolent fragrance environments that evoke distinct moments, faces, places and eras.
Written Article 5 min read
Escentrics
Our World
Trend
Scent and Sound
Fragrance lovers are generally sensorial creatures, but it would be strange if a love of some of the finer pleasures in life were limited purely to olfaction. What about things that stimulate the other senses — cinema, art, dance, theatre, opera and music?
Written Article 6 min read
Art
Escentrics
Molecules
Our World
Trend
A microscopic look at our new Escentric packaging
Investigating the colours behind our products and packaging, the specific messages and ethos each colour conveys to enhance and not conflict with the fragrance's aromatic profile.
Written Article 7 min read
Art
Escentrics
Our World
Trend
Can we smell colour?
An examination of olfactory artists working with scent and colour in the context of contemporary art.
Written Article 7 min read
Art
Escentrics
Our World
Trend
The latest findings in Neuropsychology and Neuroperfumery
How sensory experience, synaesthesia and the super additivity of stimuli are linked to certain brain regions and how they can be used for the psychology of fragrance selection.
Written Article 11 min read
Art
Escentrics
Our World
Trend
The interplay of colour and fragrance on our emotions
Colour is a universal language that elicits physical, emotional, and mental reactions in us. An exploration into how colour and aroma trigger memories and how we can form connections through colour and scent to people, places, and experiences.
Written Article 6 min read
Art
Escentrics
Our World
Escentric Synaesthesia
We break the enigma of the multilinearity of the EM fragrances by revealing the kaleidoscopic ecosystem of neuroperfumery.
Written Article 3 min read
Art
Escentrics
Our World
Trend
Celebrating 15 Years of Chemistry
Written Article 4 min read
Escentrics
Our World
The Smellsonic Forest
Unsound’s Małgorzata Płysa on Foris, the immersive installation created by field recording artist, Chris Watson, and our very own Geza Schoen, that plunges participants into the beating heart of a vanished wilderness.
Written Article 3 min read
Art
Our World
A meeting of minds
Prima ballerina POLINA SEMIONOVA, memory champion CHRISTIANE STENGER and perfumer GEZA SCHOEN riff on bottling the Bolshoi, mapping memories, and making beautiful fragrances together.
Written Article 6 min read
Our World
Art & Chemistry
Escentric Molecules collaborated with Frieze on Making Scents: Art & the Olfactory, a mind-expanding symposium with pioneers in multisensory VR, olfactory art and neuroscience. Catch a whiff of the future.
Written Article 2 min read
Art
Geza Schoen
Our World
True Niche
24 years ago, Mark Buxton cooked up a fragrance that ‘works like a medicine and behaves like a drug’. It was Eau de Parfum, the first fragrance from Comme des Garçons, and the first flowering of the anarchic creativity we now know as ‘niche’.
Written Article 3 min read
Our World
Trend
Escentric Bedfellows
It’s the coolest store in Berlin, maybe even the world. Escentric Molecules’ stockist, Andreas Murkudis, is where Geza Schoen goes browsing for green trousers and brown paper hats… Here are a few of his favourite things.
Written Article 2 min read
Our World
Trend
His Dark Materials
Designer Boris Bidjan Saberi is intimately involved with his primary materials, moulding leather jackets on his body and using his own formula to tan the hides. When it came to creating a fragrance, he wanted that intimacy, bottled. And as a Molecule 01 wearer, he wanted Geza Schoen to make it happen.
Written Article 3 min read
Our World
Rebel Smell
What happens when three true grit perfumers band together for a showdown with the bland world of commercial fragrance? Project Renegades, that’s what. Hold onto your psychedelic Stetson, it’s gonna be a wild ride...
Written Article 2 min read
Geza Schoen
Our World
21st Century Fashion Scents
She’s brainy, beautiful, and she edits The Gentlewoman, the most discerning fashion magazine on the planet. Penny Martin explains why her latest issue calls Escentric Molecules ‘the scent sensation of the twenty-first century’.
Written Article 3 min read
Escentrics
Molecule 01
Our World
Measuring Molecules
Functional it may be, but this secretive sanctuary on top of a sixties apartment block in Berlin is where fragrance alchemy happens.
Written Article 2 min read
Geza Schoen
Our World
Seasoned Greetings
With his off-the-wall flavour pairings and leftfield aromas, Berlin’s star chef and Escentric Molecules’ favourite, Tim Raue was never gonna cook Christmas the way your granny does it.
Written Article 2 min read
Our World
Molecule-maniacal
When rapper Danny Seth first smelt Molecule 01 he knew he had to have it. But what the heck was it? Some bros don’t give up their secrets so easily...
Written Article 1 min read
Our World
Escentric Molecules is ten
How do you celebrate a decade of maverick art and singular chemistry? With a monster great party in Berlin, of course.
Written Article 3 min read
Our World
Is this fragrance witchcraft?
Bibi Lynch was the first journalist ever to try out Escentric Molecules – as we celebrate our first decade, she recalls what happened when she spritzed on Molecule 01 ten years ago.
Written Article 1 min read
Molecule 01
Our World
Olfactory Organ
Geza Schoen on collaborating with artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf for ‘Smeller’, an olfactory machine that plays scent symphonies.
Written Article 1 min read
Art
Our World