The Soft Lawn Imaginary Authors 2012

Once it settles on the skin, the first note is that of mint leaves. If you’ve ever bought mint from the grocery, or you happen to have it growing wild where you live, it's that exact scent. It fades quickly in projection to a skin scent in an hour, where it smells like milkweed – earthy, and kind of rancid, with the mint mingling with it. It’s unusual. Very realistic, but it’s not something I care to smell like. At three hours, it smells like something trying to be grassy, but on second and third sniff, it’s the mothball note again. Ugh! How could you do this to me, Imaginary Authors? And so it goes, tacking back and forth from something minty to something mothbally for the next four hours, turning fertilizer-esque at the end, until it mercifully dissipates.