Description
Imaginary Authors The Soft Lawn Eau de Parfum is a fanciful green fragrance for Bright Young Things – blending tart linden blossoms, ivy leaves and an addictive ‘fresh tennis ball note’ to sumptuous effect. All Imaginary Authors fragrances are based on a fictitious work of literature and The Soft Lawn is a coming of age novel by Claude LeCoque. Set amid a backdrop of New England high society, the novel follows rebellious young WASPS as they leave behind the pleasure filled lawns of their youth and enter into the decedent world of the roaring twenties.
Imaginary Authors The Soft Lawn opens dry, green and spotlessly clean – the recreation of a high class idyll. The sun-kissed herbiness of immaculately preened grass meets pollan-filled wafts of linden blossom. Infused with nose tickling honey and tea facets, these yellow blossoms also have a lime-like edge that give bitter citrus refreshment. Darker verdure fringes the arrangement in the form of laurel and ivy leaves with their sugar free, chlorophyll greenness – casting secretive shadows at the edge of a sunlit picnic. Alongside the tart refreshment, a wonderfully bright, freshly washed linen note sets the scene for a Great Gatsby style garden party. The Soft Lawn is a civilized scent for al fresco functions, not the great outdoors.
The Soft Lawn may be poised for high society, but it has a modern twist that subverts formal etiquette with a playfully easy-breezy attitude. Even though nature has been preened to perfection, there is frolicing amid the formal hedges and kissing behind the tennis courts. Undercutting the air of upstanding society, rustic vetiver grounds the scent on earthier soil, while a fantasy note of fresh tennis balls feels modern and unapologetically plastic. There is something incredibly addictive about the aroma of new rubber and fuzzy, fluorescent-yellow nap.
During drydown, Imaginary Authors The Soft Lawn slowly descends into a delicate haylike creaminess – delivering relaxation after a day of pleasure. Oakmoss smooths the edges into a pristinely unified base. A scent of blue-blooded adventure in the greenest of lawns where sensual desire wins out over the respectable rules of play.
Synopsis: “Claude LeCoq published his first book, The Soft Lawn, in 1916 while still attending Princeton University. A controversial portrait of adolescent upper-class rebellion in New England, the coming-of-age story follows Hampton Perry, a charmingly snotty college tennis champ who, after years of having everything handed to him on a silver platter, finds himself handing it all back.”
Notes: Linden Blossom, Grapefruit, Laurel & Ivy leaves, Vetiver, Oakmoss, Fresh Tennis Balls
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