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 and mentor, Swami Anjananda that shaped her understanding of devotion, discipline, breath, subtle awareness, and the deeper intelligence of the body as a pathway to the Cosmos. This foundation grounded her ethics, strengthened her capacity to listen, and deepened her devotion to the Earth.

Recently, Prashanti has been studying with Rose Baudin , a teacher of rare depth and humility, a Women who rejects any title of Mastery even as she embodies a lifetime of devotion to the Tantric path. Rose’s teachings have reshaped the way Prashanti relates to both her humanity and her spiritual life. Rose has shown her how the irreverent and the reverent can stand side by side, how the fullness of human experience is not an obstacle but a doorway. Through Rose, she is learning that surrender is not collapse but an opening to vastness of our existence, that devotion can be simple and unadorned, and that our humanity and our deeper spiritual existence are not opposing forces but deeply interwoven. Rose’s influence continues to guide the way Prashanti walks, not only through her teachings but through the way she moves through the world , with humour and humility, with reverence and irreverence, with a lived integration of deep human nature and profound spiritual clarity.

Prashanti’s path has led her to the Andean Cosmovision. She entered this tradition through Maestra Jemmita in the pathway of Wilka Suyu, whose teachings first opened the doorway to this lineage. Through Jem, Prashanti was introduced to the Q’anchis Illa lineage held by Maestro Puma.

She then entered a dedicated year-long apprenticeship with both Maestra Jemmita and Maestro Puma in the Humpiq Ñust’a path, the Healer Priestess. This apprenticeship deepened her communion with the living universe, the land, and the unseen layers of relationship that shape Andean healing traditions.

Over the past three years, Prashanti has been initiated into the Q’anchis Illa lineage and into the Lineage of Light through the School of Remembrance created by Maestra Jemmita, held with the blessing of Maestro Puma.

Prashanti honours all of her teachers — Maestra Jemmita, Maestro Puma, Rose Baudin, Swami Alokananda, Swami Ajnananda, and the many guides, seen & unseen who shape her path. Each has played a pivotal role in refining how she walks, listens, and relates to the natural world. Their teachings continue to inform her way of holding this work: with reverence, reciprocity, devotion, and impecabilty.

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, studying with some of the world leaders in Clinical Aromatherapy including Rhiannon Lewis, Ron Guba, Madeleine Kerkhof and Deby Atterby, and meeting distillers and harvesters who live closest to the plants, and 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 basic needs for their families or suffering even worse, 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.