![]() ![]() “People yearned for emotional connections with other people, yet needed to feel at one with their own world. This is a scent that feels intimate to you, familiar to you, that helps you to feel truly comfortable in your own skin.”Īs for just why skin scents are having a moment right now, Mastenbroek puts this down to a desire for personal connection during the pandemic. “You the wearer are aware of the scent, and confident that you are exuding a warm and comforting aura, while not smelling overpowering in any way. “A skin scent enhances the smell of natural skin, in a radiant yet subtle way,” says perfumer Ruth Mastenbroek. Instead, skin scents are less about the individual notes and more about the overall feeling that wearing the fragrance provides. Light, soft, warm, and clean, skin scents are a more conceptual perfume category, especially in comparison to the more conventional scent descriptors, like ‘floral’ or ‘green’. Right now, skin scents like Molecule 01, are one of the biggest trends in the fragrance game. After only a few minutes a woman passed our table and stopped to say ‘what smells so good here?’-the idea was born.” But, my experience with Iso E Super revealed a possibility for the wearer to leave an impressive olfactoric mark behind, where you appear, yet you don’t inhale your scent with every breath you take.” A decade later and Molecule 01 became a reality when Schön gave a friend a sample of Ice E Super to wear on its own. “I thought it a shame that the present offerings would lead them to neglect that opportunity. “There were a lot of fabulous fragrances were around yet some of my friends stated that they would rather not wear a fragrance at all than wear the powerful and strong scents that were around,” says Schön. Schön’s process for the creation of Molecule 01 began in the 1980s, a time when loud, powerful scents like Dior’s Poison and Opium by YSL were in their heyday. ![]() Furthermore, it has this unique velvety and smooth allure, and it has got this magic to it unlike all other chemicals around.” ![]() If it were to be compared to an existing natural product people know it would have to be cedarwood. “Iso E Super is a single aroma molecule perfumers use to create a fragrance in conjunction with other chemicals and naturals,” says master perfumer and Escentric Molecules founder Geza Schön. Supposedly undetectable to the wearer but incredibly appealing to those around, it contains only one ingredient, a unique molecule known as Iso E Super. The scent in question, Escentric Molecules Molecule 01 is cosy, woody, clean, and a little bit sweet. Two weeks later I received a direct message from an Instagram follower who had passed me on the street and was desperate to know what I was wearing. I then wore it to dinner with my boyfriend who (for the first time in four years of dating) actually noticed and commented on my fragrance without prompting. The first time I wore it I received no less than five compliments from passersby on a quick visit to the supermarket. There was one particular fragrance that ended up totally converting me. However, over the years and as my scent-triggered migraines worsened, I’ve found myself drawn to softer, subtler scents, and oddly enough these warm, barely-there, and sometimes outright invisible fragrances, were often the ones that drew in the most compliments. I liked to imagine that I walked down the street with a cloud of perfume trailing in my wake, and like most people, I assumed that punchy, complex blends would help me to achieve this. My most reached for bottles were vibrant florals, smoky leather-based blends, fresh green scents, and sugary sweet fragrances like Maison Francis Kurkdjian’s Baccarat Rouge 540. Regardless of notes (but ultimately the bolder the better) my goal was to be the kind of person who smelled good from five feet away. There used to be a time the I chose my fragrance to make a statement. ![]()
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