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Geza Schoen reflects on the art of arranging classic perfumer ingredients in new shapes.
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Escentrics
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Past, Present and Future of Scent Cultures
Scent and culture have had a symbiotic relationship since the dawn of humanity.
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Escentrics
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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.
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Escentrics
Molecules
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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.
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Geza Schoen
Molecules
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Scentscapes
Sophie Bew, Editor of AnOther Magazine, deconstructs the notion of scentscapes — redolent fragrance environments that evoke distinct moments, faces, places and eras.
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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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Art
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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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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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Art
Escentrics
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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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The 15th Year Saga Collection
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Celebrating 15 Years of Chemistry
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Escentrics
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My spiritual home
Perfumer, Geza Schoen introduces us to his "spiritual home" and gives insight into the development of EM05. "Escentric 05 is an evocation of my summer retreat on a Mediterranean island."
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EM05
Escentric perfumer, Geza Schoen on cashmeran, the star molecule in his new Molecule 05, and the inspiration behind Escentric 05, his most personal fragrance ever.
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Molecules
Rip the Heart Out
Reducing a fragrance to just one molecule is radical. But the nonconformism doesn’t stop there. In the Escentric fragrances Geza Schoen does something else pretty rad: he rips the heart out.
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Escentrics
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The private world of a perfumer
Geza Schoen talks molecules and minimalism in his hometown of Berlin.
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Summer Decon-structed
Escentric Molecules 05:
a study in the scent of summer
Written Article 9 min read
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Geza Schoen
Molecules
The animal imaginarium
Beaver Morse code, petrified poo, and ‘something like a pearl’. The animal ingredients in perfumery may be a strange bunch, says Geza Schoen, but wait till you meet their lab-born kin.
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Escentrics
Geza Schoen
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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Escentrics
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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Geza Schoen
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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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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