"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
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Smells like D‑I‑S‑C‑O
The wait is over! Time to DISCOver our new campaign! The story behind our collaboration with BPCC and the drop of our limited edition DISCOvery Sets.
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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?
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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.
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Can we smell colour?
An examination of olfactory artists working with scent and colour in the context of contemporary art.
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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.
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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.
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Escentric Synaesthesia
We break the enigma of the multilinearity of the EM fragrances by revealing the kaleidoscopic ecosystem of neuroperfumery.
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Reclaiming art space
What use is a glorious artwork if it exists in an elitist bubble? Whether it’s fragrance, fashion or fine art, one could say the most impactful pieces of art are those which speak to an audience regardless of age, gender or income.
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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.
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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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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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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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Olfactory Organ
Geza Schoen on collaborating with artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf for ‘Smeller’, an olfactory machine that plays scent symphonies.
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