Geza schoen fragrances ltd

He’s known as ‘Berlin’s Scent Master’: a maverick perfumer who loves nothing more than to tease, to tantalise and to make us think about fragrance. The scent which catapulted Geza Schoen to notoriety was Molecule 01: a single ingredient – Iso E Super – which he’s been obsessed by all his fragrance-wearing life, and which now has devotees around the world equally obsessed. (Many believe it’s the closest thing to a pheromone in a bottle…)

Alongside his own lines – Escentric Molecules and now The Beautiful Mind series – Geza creates for fragrance houses including Linda Pilkington’s Ormonde Jayne collection. On a trip to London, we caught up with him: here’s Geza reading an early preview copy of the forthcoming print edition of our magazine The Scented Letter (watch this space). Here’s what he told us over lunch at Bond & Brook…

What is your first scent ‘memory’?
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