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.

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Olfactive FX.
Comme des Garçons

25/06/13

Olfactive FX.

Unlike earlier colour-coded series from Comme, this new, Blue group have been released in Comme's signature pebble bottle. In keeping with the companies' sometimes radical, often playful approach to perfumery, this series proposes an olfactory paradox. By presenting three traditionally warm notes: sandalwood, cedar and incense as ozonic, cool and almost marine in character, they each confound predictable olfactory behavior. Cleverly signaling the chilled association with the blue and silver graphics, the idea is reinforced by the irresistible tactile connotations of the flask: a water-smoothed rock, a complex, naturally occurring form. Each of the three relate to the house style, a certain linearity, a certain simplicity, but they are linked by a cleverly tweaked breeziness which animates what might more often be used as bass-notes.

Comme des Garçon Perfumes
"It feels like the olfactory equivalent of a monochrome image. The pleasure of this unrefined smell is well and truly a physical experience, an experience in which thought is eclipsed."
- Jean-Claude Ellena, 2011, The Diary Of A nose