Escentric Molecules
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The lime provides a brief citric snap, almost effervescent, before pink pepper adds a fizzing, resinous quality that prickles at the edges. Aldehydes create a soapy shimmer that feels deliberate rather than dated, setting the stage for what's essentially a slow-burning reveal.
Hedione blooms with its characteristic diffusive radiance, creating space around the fragrance whilst the orris root introduces a powdery-rooty earthiness that keeps things grounded. The Iso E Super begins its gentle siege here, wrapping everything in that cedar-like, velvety haze that seems to hover just beyond conscious detection.
This is where Escentric 01 becomes utterly itself—a second-skin aura of warm, musky woods with the frankincense and mastic adding barely-there incense wisps. The muscone pulses gently beneath, animalic and intimate, whilst the Iso E Super continues its hypnotic, almost subliminal presence that you smell more in absences than presences.
Geza Schön's Escentric 01 is a polarising study in radiant woodiness, built around the molecule Iso E Super in concentrations that border on the narcotic. This isn't a fragrance that announces itself with traditional flourishes—instead, it creates a cerebral halo that seems to emanate from within the skin rather than atop it. The opening crackle of lime and pink pepper feels almost incidental, a brief sparkle before the hedione-rich heart takes hold with its jasmine-like translucence, amplifying the woody core rather than competing with it. The orris lends a subtle, chalky elegance that prevents the composition from becoming a one-note Iso E Super sermon, whilst frankincense and mastic add resinous whispers in the base that catch the light like amber through gauze.
What's remarkable is how Escentric 01 creates intimacy through an ostensibly synthetic framework—the muscone provides an animalic warmth that grounds the ethereal cedar-velvety qualities of Iso E Super, making it skin-mimetic in the most beguiling way. This is for those who find traditional woody compositions too literal, too earnest. It's worn by people who understand that a fragrance needn't shout to seduce, who appreciate the way Iso E Super creates a magnetic pull that draws others into your personal space. It's the scent of clean skin after a sauna, pencil shavings on blond wood, the warmth of a neck in winter. Divisive, yes—some smell it powerfully, others barely at all—but for those attuned to its frequency, it's quietly addictive.
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