Essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is. Essence may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Television and film The Essence, a short film series by Nathaniel Thompson "Essence" (The X-Files), a 2001 episode of television show The X-Files Music Essence (John Lewis album), 1962 Essence (Don Ellis album), 1962 Essence (Eric Kloss album), 1973 Essence (Shelly Manne album), 1977 Essence, a pseudonym of The Space Brothers, a UK trance music act Essence (A Guy Called Gerald album), 2000 Essence (Lucinda Williams album), 2001, or the title song "Essence" (song), a 2020 song by Wizkid featuring Tems Videogames a measure of a living being's lifeforce in the role-playing game Shadowrun the mystical force in the pen and paper role-playing game Exalted Other uses Essence (magazine), an African American magazine with a primarily female readership 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 Essential oil, of a given substance Extract, used as a food flavoring an OMG standard on software engineering created by the SEMAT initiative See also Esence (disambiguation)