Geza Schoen

Escentric Molecules is the brainchild of maverick perfumer, Geza Schoen.

It celebrates perfumery as the art of chemistry. In 2001, disillusioned with the industry’s increasing commercialisation, he resigned from his job at fragrance manufacturers H & R in Paris and moved to London.

In 2006, Escentric Molecules was launched at Harvey Nichols, London, as an entirely new concept in fragrance. Today, it is stocked around the world in over 50 countries and across over 70 key locations in the UK and Ireland. To this day, Escentric Molecules is the highest selling fragrance at Harvey Nichols, with one bottle of 01 being sold every 15 minutes.

Escentric Molecules owe its existence to an aroma-molecule that does not exist in nature. Iso E Super was created in a laboratory at IFF in 1973. It remained unknown outside the world of perfumery until the launch of Escentric Molecules, though its elusive presence hovers at relatively low concentrations in the background of many fragrances for both men and women. Among perfumers,
it is prized for its velvety, cocooning effect. Geza developed the idea to create a pair of fragrances foregrounding Iso E Super in its own right. It would be called Escentric Molecules 01, and it would become the scent sensation of the 21st century.

In 2009, he initiated The Beautiful Mind Series, working with outstanding, women in different creative fields to construct fragrances dedicated to the power of the female mind. In 2017, he launched Project Renegades with friends and fellow-perfumers, Mark Buxton and Bertrand Duchaufour. Throughout h r, Schoen has collaborated on conceptual projects such as Paper Passion, a fragrance with Steidl, Wallpaper* and Karl Lagerfeld; and worked with artists such as Wolfgang Georgsdorf, for whom he made 64 odours for Smeller, an olfactory organ that spectators can play like a piano to make aromascapes