Imaginary Authors The Soft Lawn Eau de Parfum (1.7 fl oz) #10072270

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. (***A little known fact about the author: Claude LeCoq wore only seersucker suits, known in that era as the wardrobe of the poor, and it was his gallant presence at high society dinners and prestigious sporting events that brought the fabric into popularity among the affluent in the '20s.) A strange, softly entrancing fragrance, The Soft Lawn unfolds on skin like an ideal vision tinged with the perfect, slanting light of a late, autumn afternoon. Linden blossom blooms, an almond-like sweetness tinged with the fresh vivacity of galbanum. If linden blossom is the fresh, romantic component in this scent, laurel leave