Name: Molecule 01 + Cistus
Brand: Escentric Molecules
Price: 225.0 USD
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Escentric Molecules

Molecule 01 + Cistus

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The most minimal fragrance is a single aroma-molecule: Molecule 01.

The next most minimal adds 1 to 01: 01 + 1. This is Molecule +.

Molecule 01 + Cistus consists of Iso E Super + Cistus.

Iso E Super is an abstract synthetic molecule with a cedarwood tonality and a warm, velvety cocooning sensation. It is one of those scents that makes you want to nestle into it. Cistus is derived from the resin of the Mediterranean Cistus ladanifer shrub, with a warm, resinous, and slightly smoky aroma.

In Molecule 01 + Cistus, Iso E Super meets the raw sensuality of Cistus. The result? Radiant depth. A haze of warmth, sheer and lasting. Cistus is a note that lingers like heat on the skin. Cistus is resin tapped from a wild Mediterranean shrub. Sticky, golden, intense. It smells of labdanum but brighter – amber with a sunlit edge. Smoky, mineral, with leathery undertones that ground the sweetness.

"Cistus is a cut of labdanum, a plant which grows everywhere in the Mediterranean, which we've also used in Escentric 05 for that alternative summer impression. Here, with M+ Cistus, it gives you this particular leatheriness with all its sweet and salty aspects. We use 4% of that Cistus absolute. That's a lot, which is why you can smell it throughout the fragrance from top to bottom. Cistus is one of the supra accords; it's powerful. For people who like strong expressions, you can't go wrong with it."

"When pairing just one ingredient with Iso E Super, it's hard to tell what happens. This stuff is really a miracle. And with Cistus, I thought the result was beautiful," says Geza Schoen, co-founder and master perfumer at Escentric Molecules.

The latest M+ offering, M+ Cistus, is a study in contrast - sweet and leathery, smooth and animalic, quiet and insistent.

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Escentric 01 200ml

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To mark 20 years of Escentric Molecules, Escentric 01 is now available in a 200ml edition - it’s the scent you love, maxed out in scale and designed to last. 

Escentric 01 200ml debuts with a new design detail: a weighty cap, precision-engineered in anodised aluminium with CNC-engraved circle detailing. The internal fitment is crafted from silicone, friction-fitted to the screw-thread pump for a seamless, secure closure. 

A nod to Escentric Molecules design-led aesthetic, the cap adds a tactile, architectural finish, elevating the flacon into an object of desire. Still minimalist, but more luxurious. This shift marks a new chapter. E01: More collectable than ever before.

Escentric 01 is a love letter to Iso E Super - a molecule that didn’t exist until it was created in a lab at IFF in 1973. Cocooning, woody and inexplicably addictive, Iso E Super hovers close to the skin to create an aura rather than a trail, radiating from the wearer in a way that’s hard to pin down.

In Escentric 01, master perfumer Geza Schoen used this super molecule at 65% of the formula, an extreme concentration surrounded by a tight edit of 18 ingredients designed to draw out its fresh, radiant and sensual facets. 

The opening spark of lime peel and pink pepper leads into a heart of green jasmine bud and orris, anchored by balsamic notes and clean musk in the base that lingers. Quietly magnetic, never shouty.

“With Escentric 01, I made the scent that I would want to wear myself,” says Geza. “I wanted to create something unconventional, not too perfumistic - something for my friends who said they didn’t like fragrance.”

Escentric 01 was never about fitting in, and the 200ml edition stays true to that ethos. It’s not just bigger, it’s built to stay. A bottle to return to, again and again. For those who’ve been with us from the beginning, and for those just discovering the magic of Iso E Super.

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Escentric 02 Extrait de Parfum

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Escentric 02 explores the many faces of perfume's most prized aroma-molecule, cloaking its wearers in an air of romance and enigma.

Escentric 02 100ml is centred on the elusive power of nature-identical Ambroxan (13.5%), a sensual amber molecule with almost mineral smoothness, together with the aphrodisiac notes of green jasmine bud and a sparkling 'gin and tonic' accord, a hint of Almdudler, and "that specific smell you get when you unwrap a new Apple laptop".

Ambroxan is a crystal-chemical structure identical to the ambrox derived from ambergris. For centuries, ambergris has been one of the most prized ingredients in perfumery. It is a somewhat mysterious substance expelled by the cachalot or sperm whale, which only attains its fine scent after a long maturation floating in the ocean.

Ambergris is rarely found these days, and the 'amber' in a modern fragrance will be a lab-created equivalent of some of the aroma-molecules that make up its scent. The finest of these by far is the nature-identical molecule Ambroxan, synthesised from materials of plant origin by chemists at Firmenich in 1950.

Different in tone from other animal ingredients, ambergris has always been valued for its refinement as well as its sensuality. These qualities persist in Ambroxan.

Geza Schoen describes the final effect as a "super long-lasting freshness into the drydown, with a subtle sensuality". This fragrance is the olfactory equivalent of a warm, love-fuelled weekend.

While Molecule 02 zeroes in on the aroma-molecule, in Escentric 02 100ml, "Ambroxan takes a back seat, providing a touch of sweetness, but for the most part, it just provides power, driving the fragrance up into the air in a whoosh of marine-like muskiness, giving that aura-like quality." says Thomas Dunckley, an award-winning fragrance expert of The Candy Perfume Boy. "It's blissful".

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Molecule 01 200ml

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To mark 20 years of Escentric Molecules, Molecule 01 is now available in a 200ml edition – the cult favourite skin scent, maxed out in scale and designed to last. 

Molecule 01 200ml debuts with a new design detail: a weighty cap, precision-engineered in anodised aluminium with CNC-engraved circle detailing. The internal fitment is crafted from silicone, friction-fitted to the screw-thread pump for a seamless, secure closure. 

A nod to Escentric Molecules design-led aesthetic, the cap adds a tactile, architectural finish, elevating the flacon into an object of desire. Still minimalist, but more luxurious. This shift marks a new chapter. M01: More collectable than ever before.

The cult-classic that remains as radical, disruptive and avant-garde as the day it was first bottled, 20 years ago. Molecule 01 is 100% Iso E Super, pure and singular.

Molecule 01 has been said to cause animal magnetism. Mysterious, cocooning, radiant and addictive, Iso E Super combines –  almost caramelises – with your own smell to create a personal scent signature.  

"Molecule 01 is for the individuals who might be a bit bored with fragrance and would prefer to radiate an aura. It's difficult to call a single aroma-chemical a fragrance – it's so much more personal," says master perfumer Geza Schoen. 

Unbounded by gender norms and expectations, the velvety wood-tinged hedonism of Iso E Super makes for an irresistible skin scent.

A modern classic, made permanent, as enduring as the molecule itself. A 200ml tribute to the scent that rewrote the rules of perfumery and never looked back.

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Molecule 01 + Patchouli

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“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.”

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Molecule 01 + Iris

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“It’s not easy to describe iris’ smell as such, but if you smell a fragrance without it, and then with it, you understand immediately what it does. It adds a creamy
powderiness. It brings a physical dimension to a fragrance. I have had a long-standing love affair with iris. Every Escentric fragrance has an iris note somewhere in there. To me, iris is luxury. The iris pallida absolue I’ve used here is one of the most expensive ingredients in perfumery.
You can find iris extracts for way less than that. But they do not have the great and subtle beauty of this absolue. It’s radical to put this much in a fragrance. The sillage is fantastic. This is a bomb, but a subtle bomb.”

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Molecule 01 + Mandarin

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“Mandarin is all about the instant hit. It’s so alive, the way it radiates off the skin with that citrus zestiness. But there’s more to mandarin, it’s very fruity and aromatic as well.
It’s a beautiful ingredient. Its transparency means that it vanishes quickly. I’ve touched it up with a little extra shading to extend it, adding a mandarin ingredient used in flavourings to give it super-juiciness.
Then as it begins to fade, Molecule 01 syncs in, bringing a warm, erogenous feeling to play with that zinging freshness. That’s unusual – for a top note ingredient like Mandarin and a base note like Iso E Super to dance together naked like this, without other notes coming between them. And then the mandarin is almost gone and you are left with the elevated simplicity of Molecule 01.
That’s what I love about Molecule 01 + Mandarin – it may be a dance of two but the story changes completely from beginning to middle to end.”

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Molecule 05

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Molecule 05 features the beautiful molecule of Cashmeran well known for its dual nature of woods and musk. This multi-faceted molecule is a signature by itself.

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Molecule 04

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Molecule 04 harnesses a smooth sandalwood sillage in isolation.

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Molecule 03

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Molecule 03 was constructed around the aroma chemical vetiveryl acetate, a refined vetiver note celebrated at its purest.

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Molecule 02

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Molecule 02 is composed by the unadulterated Ambroxan (or grey amber) to enjoy in its purity.

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Molecule 01

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Molecule 01 contains nothing but Iso E Super ‰ÛÒ a single ingredient.

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Escentric 05

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Escentric 05 opens on birght citrusy notes mixed with the woodiness of the Cashmeran. This is the smell of an orange tree, trunk and fruit placed in the middle of an herb garden growing rosemary, juniper, and basil. The green notes of pine amidst woods and musk. gets amplified by labdanum and mastic resins veiled with magic hedione.

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Escentric 04

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Escentric 04 harnesses a smooth sandalwood sillage in isolation interwoven with ribbons of pink grapefruit, rose and pink peppercorns. A scent that builds to an understated crescendo of a salty, creamy dry-down that lingers for hours as it warms on the skin.

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Escentric 03

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Escentric 03 melds vetiver with a ginger beer-like fizz, gorgeous wafts of amber woodiness with peppercorns, tea and leather for a surprisingly uplifting sensation.