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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Vaara
Penhaligon's

2/06/13

Vaara

One of perfumeries' genuine travelers, Bertrand Duchaufour, delivers an olfactory sketchbook of the gardens and palaces of Jodhpur. Rose, quince, sandalwood, saffron, coriander, magnolia. Commissioned by the Maharaja of Jodhpur as an evocation of his world, this is one occasion where a client's approval is a reliable stamp of authenticity. Vaara describes an open, breezy, filigree realm of resonant, living aromas shifting gently in the orange Jodhpur light. 

"You take it's cool, smooth substance into your mouth and it is as if the very darkness of the room were melting on your tongue; even undistinguished yokan can then take on a mysteriously intriguing flavour."
- Junichiro Tanizaki, 1977, In Praise Of Shadows