Scent Molecule was born from the life’s work of Prashanti Lyree , a Clinical Aromatherapist, Cosmetic Chemist, and global advocate for ethical, traceable aromatics. Her relationship with scent began at seventeen, when she found a small bottle of clove essential oil. The label said it was “warming,” and she used it hoping to create a vibe for the party she was hosting that night. She didn’t understand it fully, but she felt something, an aliveness, a subtle shift in the air that excited her.

Two years later, at nineteen, essential oils became her only support during the natural birth of her son. That experience changed her relationship with aromatics forever. It opened something ancient in her, a deep remembering of how scent can steady the mind, hold the body and shift pain, and offer safety in the most profound moments of life. It shaped the way she would walk with plants from that point forward.

As her relationship with aromatics deepened, so did her relationship with the inner world. Prashanti spent twelve years within a traditional tantric lineage in a guru–disciple relationship, a formative path with Swami Alokananda that shaped her understanding of devotion, discipline, breath, subtle awareness, and the deeper intelligence of the body. This foundation grounded her ethics, strengthened her capacity to listen, and deepened her devotion to the Earth.

In more recent years, she has been studying with Rose Baudin, a true and humble tantric master, whose teachings have refined the more subtle dimensions of her practice, bringing clarity, steadiness, and spaciousness and fun into her work.

Prashanti’s path eventually led her to the Andean Cosmovision. She entered this lineage through Maestra Jemmita, whose teachings first opened the doorway to this tradition. Through Jem, she began studying with Maestro Puma in the lineage holder of the Q’anchis Illa — the Lineage of the Seven Rays. Over the past three years, Prashanti has been initiated into this lineage as a Humpiq Nusta (Healer Priestess) and into the Lineage of Light through the School of Remembrance created by Maestra Jemmita, held with Puma’s blessing.

She honours both of her teachers — Maestro Puma for carrying the ancestral wisdom of this path, and Maestra Jemmita for transmitting it with devotion, clarity, and integrity. These lineages have deepened her sense of reciprocity, relationship, and right-relationship with land. They continue to shape the way she holds her work with plants: with reverence, accountability, and a commitment to service.

Prashanti’s clinical foundation and her spiritual training coexist within her, woven together as one way of walking. Both inform how she listens: to land, to plants, to people, and to the unseen layers of relationship that make ethical work possible.

The spark for Scent Molecule emerged through years of conversations with clients, students, and seekers, all asking the same question: “If the big companies aren’t ethical, where do I buy essential oils I can trust?” She wanted to offer an alternative, but there wasn’t one. And she could no longer pretend that the glossy language surrounding the industry reflected reality.

As she travelled the world, meeting distillers and harvesters who live closest to the plants, Prashanti encountered the real cost behind essential oils, resins & natural incense. She listened as workers spoke quietly about dangerous harvesting conditions, about people injured or killed climbing cliffs to gather frankincense, about women unable to afford school fees, and communities trapped by corporate buying power. She realised how often the word “sustainable” was used without evidence, transparency, or traceability, a marketing term that meant very little to the people whose livelihoods depended on these plants.

She also came to understand that the essential oil industry sits on a long history of colonisation, extraction, and the suppression of Indigenous knowledge. Many aromatic plants have travelled through centuries of trade shaped not by reciprocity, but by power, where land, culture, and labour were taken rather than honoured. This history still echoes through the industry today, where the communities who hold ancestral relationships with these plants are rarely the ones who benefit from their global popularity. Acknowledging this truth is central to the way Prashanti chooses to work.

In time, she also learned something few consumers realise: that most essential oils in the world come from the same handful of large suppliers. Oils often travel through layers of traders, brokers, and distributors before landing in different bottles under different brands, each appearing unique, each claiming purity, yet often sharing the same industrial origin. Behind the scenes, it is the same oil moving through a system built for volume, not relationship.

This model leaves little room for small, artisanal distillers, the people crafting extraordinary oils with devotion, land-based knowledge, and generations of heritage. Their work is exceptional and deeply ethical, yet rarely reaches the mainstream market because mass distribution offers them no place to stand. These are the individuals Prashanti felt called to support.

Her depth of professional training is rare in this field. She holds one of the highest aromatherapy qualifications in the world; Aromatic Medicine, earned in Australia and refined through advanced studies in France with global leaders. Her background spans clinical aromatherapy, formulation, massage therapy, trauma-informed practice, ritual work, and cosmetic chemistry with over two thousand hours of study completed. Yet she believes her truest education has come from sitting with distillers, listening to their stories, and witnessing their devotion to land and lineage.

Scent Molecule exists because of these relationships. It is built on traceability, ecological integrity, fair payment, and direct connection, without middlemen, without shortcuts, without the disconnect that has defined so much of the aromatics industry. It exists so that essential oils can return to their rightful context: as the living expression of place, people, and plant memory.

For Prashanti, scent is ancestral. It is a bridge between cultures and a language older than words. She believes that every bottle carries story, the scent of the land it comes from, the hands that harvested it, and the plant’s own quiet instruction.

Her hope is simple: that Scent Molecule becomes the most ethical essential oil brand in the world not through scale, but through truth. That it becomes a source practitioners, spas, healers, and everyday people trust because they feel the integrity in every drop. And that it grows in a way that allows profits to flow back to the communities who need them, through environmental and humanitarian projects chosen by those communities themselves.

Scent Molecule is not her business.
It is her devotion, a long, slow, steady offering to the Earth, and to the people who honour her.