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.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

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Moon Bloom
Hiram Green

5/08/13

Moon Bloom

This is the first fragrance from Hiram Green. A remarkably lifelike interpretation of the notoriously difficult Tuberose. Green has managed to emulate beautifully, not just the static scent of this often overwhelming bloom but the behavior over time of its perfume. The frequent problem with attempts to capture the rather mobile beauty of living scents is the perceived need to amplify their effects unduly. Moon Bloom, when worn discretely, captures the various shades of tuberose, cleverly modulates them and produces a poised impression of the living bloom's presence rather than the feeling of assault-by-bouquet so common with floral perfumes. 

Hiram Green
"Writers as diverse as Marcel Proust and Andy Warhol have been eloquent in describing the power of sensory stimulation to unlock the past. Smells and music are known to be strong triggers from involuntary memories and I ask whether there is anything special about these sensory modalities that makes them particularly effective at unlocking memories."
- Charles Fernyhough, 2012, Pieces Of Light