Songs for Olympia
Putting your wrist to someone’s nose and watching their expression change, trying to figure out what it is, is a form of intimacy, another way of communicating. Understanding that they can connect to the world in that way means they are open to other connections. A favourite memory is someone who was smelling my wrist when I was wearing Ostens Patchouli Heart I, a resonant, woody scent with a faint incense-treacle note. He had his nose and lips to my skin and his eyes looked like he’d experienced the divine, but it was more than sexual. It was a genuine realisation of another world, and he was trying to find the words to describe it. Seeing that is a turn-on like no other.
Tomoé Hill interviewed by Paul Sullivan.