News – Escentric Molecules

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.

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Art Our World

Molecular Riffs

Inside each Molecule is the scent equivalent of a jazz riff ready to bust out into a big beautiful fragrance melody. Geza Schoen takes you into the secret soul of the Escentrics.

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The Fab Four

Geza Schoen riffs on the super-special qualities of the four molecules at the heart of Escentric.

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Molecules

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.

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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.

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The Right Stuff?

Word on the street is that

natural = good, synthetic = bad.

Hold on a minute, says Geza Schoen, life – and fragrance – are not so simple.

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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’.

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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.

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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.

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Molecular Mystery

When she first sniffed Molecule 01, Daniela Rinaldi could smell nothing – “I mean nothing at all”. So how did the Harvey Nichols beauty supremo end up wearing it every day for the last eleven years?

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When Geza met Jónsi

For Sigur Rós frontman, Jónsi, making scents comes second only to making music. On his world tour, he took time out to hang with Geza Schoen at his Berlin laboratory. Listen in...

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Atomic-smitten

While Geza Schoen concocts the juice, there’s a second creative head at work in Escentric Molecules, one that sees a fragrance and thinks, ‘bring me the particle accelerator’. Meet Paul White, our elusive mixologist of the visual.

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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...

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Eau de Trollette

Lets hear it from Ugh & Bõögâr, two trolls who have taken over the Icelandic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this summer and are brewing up a warts n’ all perfume for the show with a little help from Geza Schoen.

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Perfume Pioneers

A new exhibition at London’s Somerset House focuses on ten scents that have pushed the boundaries to create a buzzing new fragrance culture. Lizzie Ostrom, co-curator of the show, lets us in on the scene.

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A Masterclass on Molecule 04

Javanol, star of Escentric Molecules 04, was invented in a lab at Swiss flavour & fragrance giant Givaudan 21 years ago. Philip Kraft, fragrance chemist and molecular designer at the company, unlocks the secrets of an exceptional odorant.

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Molecules

Phial and Error

It took 300 trials and a eureka moment to get to Escentric 04. But it was worth the wait, says Geza Schoen.

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Escentrics

Future fresh

“The psychedelic freshness of liquid metallic grapefruit peel” – is how Geza Schoen describes Javanol, the molecule at the heart of his brand-new fragrances, Escentric 04 and Molecule 04.

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Molecules

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’.

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Measuring Molecules

Functional it may be, but this secretive sanctuary on top of a sixties apartment block in Berlin is where fragrance alchemy happens.

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Geza Schoen Our World

Trend Lab

Fragrance trends have less to do with fashion and more to do with cutting edge chemistry than you might think. Geza Schoen gives you the insider view for 2017.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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Molecule 01 Our World

Olfactory Organ

Geza Schoen on collaborating with artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf for ‘Smeller’, an olfactory machine that plays scent symphonies.

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Art Our World

What makes Iso E Super so super?

Geza Schoen analyses the sensual superpowers of the mysterious Molecule 01.

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Maximum Minimalism

With Escentric Molecules, Geza Schoen has taken minimalism to the max. He explains how his love affair with less led to a whole new niche fragrance trend.

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Sex in a Bottle

Scent and Social Distancing

Summer Decon-structed

Non-Binary Scents

The animal imaginarium

Reclaiming art space

Is Niche Nevermore?

The Smellsonic Forest

Molecular Riffs

The Fab Four

A meeting of minds

Art & Chemistry

The Right Stuff?

True Niche

Escentric Bedfellows

His Dark Materials

Molecular Mystery

When Geza met Jónsi

Atomic-smitten

Rebel Smell

Eau de Trollette

Perfume Pioneers

A Masterclass on Molecule 04

Phial and Error

Future fresh

21st Century Fashion Scents

Measuring Molecules

Trend Lab

Seasoned Greetings

Molecule-maniacal

Escentric Molecules is ten

Is this fragrance witchcraft?

Olfactory Organ

What makes Iso E Super so super?

Maximum Minimalism

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