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16 July 2008
Strictly speaking, this isn’t really a review, but in the interest of perfume geekery I’ll share my experience with the latest two fragrances (Escentric 02 and Molecule 02) from Escentric Molecules, the niche line of perfumer perfumer Geza Schoen.
When I “reviewed” Escentric 01 back in 2006, I found that the fragrance was so perfectly described by the brand’s own description that it was silly to say much more, so I just quoted the description and added a few words. The same is true of the new Escentric 02, so here is what Escentric Molecules had to say:
Escentric 02 uses an unparalleled concentration of ambroxan, in combination with vetiver and muscone, a particularly gorgeous nature-identical musk. Orris, elderflower extract and hedione lead into the instant effervescence of the topnote…
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Posted by Robin
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2 July 2008
Boudicca, the London-based design house of Zowie Broach and Brian Kirkby, will launch Wode, their first fragrance, this fall (it was introduced in conjunction with their Paris couture collection this week):
An experiment five years in the making, involving a small army of specialists who've all signed non-disclosure agreements, it's more of an anti-perfume that Kirkby claims “does something never done before and is applied in a new way.” But here's the kicker: it won't be available for sale when it's unveiled in a “spectacular” September launch. “If I say too much I'll be in breach,” explains Kirkby, “but it will not follow the conventional route of a fragrance.”
The fragrance is named for woad…
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Posted by Robin
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17 May 2008
Niche line Escentric Molecules has launched two new fragrances, Escentric 02 and Molecule 02:
Escentric 02 [shown] uses an unparalleled concentration of ambroxan combined with vetiver and muscone, a particularly gorgeous nature-identical musk. Orris, elderflower extract and hedione add an instant effervescence to the topnote, giving it a fresh 'mineral' effect…
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22 April 2008
The Reg Vardy Gallery at the University of Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, England, will host If There Ever Was: an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells:
In his book of essays entitled, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the physician Lewis Thomas wrote, “The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking itself.” And it is with this appreciation of smell as comparable to thought and interpretation that the exhibition If There Ever Was considers scent as integral to the perception of abstraction and representation…
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Posted by Robin
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12 May 2006
Escentric 01 is one of the two releases last year from Escentric Molecules, a relatively new perfume house created by Berlin-based perfumer Geza Schoen. Molecule 01 consists solely of the aroma chemical Iso E Super. Escentric 01, the subject of today's review, is…
…an homage to a single scent ingredient. It consists of 'Iso E Super' in an unprecedented concentration (65%), together with other ingredients (including pink pepper, green lime and balsamic notes like benzoin, mastic and incense) in a new balance — rather than the traditional formula of top, heart and base notes, Escentric 01 moves quickly from top to bottom…
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