The Escentric Molecules refill is a 30-ml bottle for your Escentric Molecules Travel Spray metal case.
Iso E Super is an abstract synthetic molecule characterised as a cedarwood note with a warm, velvety cocooning sensation. Patchouli is a natural extracted from the leaves of the patchouli plant.
“Patchouli is a unique natural. Unlike 99% of perfume ingredients we associate it with a particular period, with the sixties and seventies and that Bohemian spirit. It has a cool, rather aloof woodiness to it. I love it for its moody beauty. I’ve used two qualities of patchouli here. The biggest chunk is Patchouli Coeur which is a very clean, soft patchouli oil fraction with the camphor-like top-note removed. I have also included a patchouli oil from Indonesia to round it out with a little bit of a top-note. The result is a sophisticated, clean patchouli that pairs fantastically well with Molecule 01.” – Geza Schoen
The most minimal fragrance is a single aroma-molecule: Molecule 01. The next most minimal adds 1 to 01: 01 + 1 This is Molecule + In 2006, Escentric Molecules launched Molecule 01, a single aroma-molecule in a bottle. The molecule was Iso E Super, an abstract synthetic created in a lab at IFF. Molecule 01 became a cult phenomenon, hailed as the anti-fragrance fragrance and the scent of the 21st century. A love song to minimalism. Now Molecule 01 gets a plus one. In three iterations, it is paired with a single scent ingredient.
“Molecule 01 is an exceptional molecule: radiant, velvety, cocooning. There’s nothing else like it, people find it irresistible. It’s mysteriously effective on its own as Molecule 01, it’s great in a fragrance as in Escentric 01. But recently I started to wonder if there might be another way to play with it. What if I could take the molecule and add just one other beautiful ingredient and see how they danced together in the bottle? That’s Molecule +.” Geza Schoen, perfumer
“Molecule + is Molecule 01 + 1 singular olfactoric element. If that element had been another aroma-chemical, this would not have worked. Each of the pairings has to be a natural. Only naturals have the complexity and radiance to work in a dance of two like this, while maintaining the simplicity of the concept.” Geza Schoen
Design
“In the early days, when we were designing the packaging for Molecule 01, I wanted to create a visual corollary for the way its scent expands into the airspace. It’s a really radiant molecule. We used dots, rings, bubbles to show this radial blooming effect. With Molecule + we revisited the Molecule 01 packaging and investigated different ways of looking at it.
What we’ve come up with is different levels of scale for the dots and rings – from micro to macro. We’ve created something bolder and more graphic overall, but deeply rooted in the Molecule 01 visual language.
When you pair Molecule 01 with another ingredient, you see the molecule through a different lens. We echoed this by playing with materials that have great iridescent properties, colours that have a sort of gauzian filter over them, with metallics layered on top of that.” – Paul White, creative director
