Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

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Espice Marine
Hermes

14/11/13

Espice Marine

House perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena has remained faithful to his exploration of spacious iridescence and alchemical poise. Suspend precisely between the physical sensuality of woods and spices and the azure ephemerality of an impossible marine accord, Espice Marine has echoes of Angeliques Sous La Pluie (made by Ellena For Frederic Malle) while treading a significantly different path. For something which evokes the fleeting so successfully it is also surprisingly persistent. 

"Whereas the images we receive are exterior to us, smells actually penetrate us. This can be experienced as a breach of our person, and psychologists believe this forms the basis for the pleasure, displeasure or even disgust a particular smell can illicit. "
- Jean-Claude Ellena, 2011, The Diary Of A Nose