Essence (disambiguation)

Essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is.

Essence may also refer to:

• The essential oil of a given substance
• Essence (poetry journal), edited and published by Connecticut poet/author, Joseph Payne Brennan, New Haven, CT. Forty-seven (47) issues, I - XLVII, 1950-1977.
• Essence (magazine), an African American magazine with a primarily female readership
• Essence (John Lewis album), 1962
• Essence (Don Ellis album), 1962
• Essence (Eric Kloss album), 1973
• Essence, a 2000 album by A Guy Called Gerald
• Essence (Lucinda Williams album), 2001, or the title song
• Essence (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics), a United States Department of Defense health-protection initiative
• Essence (yacht), an American yacht sank in a collision with a cargo ship on 29 April 2009
• "Essence" (The X-Files), a 2001 episode of television show The X-Files
• Essence, a measure of a living being's lifeforce in the role-playing game Shadowrun
• Essence, the mystical force in the pen and paper role-playing game Exalted
• Essence, an OMG standard on software engineering created by the SEMAT initiative
• Extract used as a food flavoring