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Helpful Review
'Dennis is a menace with his "anyone for Tennis"?'
The title of this review is the opening line from a Chris de Burgh song called 'Patricia the Stripper', which in a way fits the back story of this fragrance. "Upper class young man falls in love with a young lady of dubious morals trying valiantly to inch her way up the social ladder" sort of thing :) ... the stuff that a fair share of 50's B movies were made from!
The Soft Lawn opens fresh and green ... a bit too green for my liking, in fact. Ivy Leaf and Linden Blossom conspire to create the 'sunrise freshness' of dew on a well manicured lawn but feels a little too florally heavy to achieve this. In fact, I am intensely reminded of Chanel's Egoiste Platinum for the first half hour or so of The Soft Lawn's life ... quite uncannily so! Perhaps it's the Oakmoss/Vetiver/Green stuff combination that is helping this idea along.
The use of Laurel (or Bay) is somewhat confusing here, giving this fragrance a slightly 'foody' edge, to my nose at least. I don't get any 'clay court', but the rubberiness of tennis balls is definitely present. While I am not much of a sports fan, I do like to follow Tennis. I think it's more about the tightly stretched white fabric over Rafael Nadal's rear end than the actual game, but a certain sort of upper crust romanticism permeates venerable institutions like Wimbledon. The Soft Lawn fails to inspire this romanticism in me ... unfortunately it carries a remarkable similarity to a bathroom air freshener that my mother used to buy when I was a youngster.
Now, I know that sounds a little harsh because the idea behind this frag is great. Unfortunately, when compared to the other frags by this house I have tried, this one leaves me unwilling to wear it. I think I would become annoyed with it during the length of wear its tenacity provides.
Far from denouncing The Soft Lawn, I am sure there are those out there who would love this offering by Imaginary Authors ... unfortunately I am just not one of them.
The Soft Lawn opens fresh and green ... a bit too green for my liking, in fact. Ivy Leaf and Linden Blossom conspire to create the 'sunrise freshness' of dew on a well manicured lawn but feels a little too florally heavy to achieve this. In fact, I am intensely reminded of Chanel's Egoiste Platinum for the first half hour or so of The Soft Lawn's life ... quite uncannily so! Perhaps it's the Oakmoss/Vetiver/Green stuff combination that is helping this idea along.
The use of Laurel (or Bay) is somewhat confusing here, giving this fragrance a slightly 'foody' edge, to my nose at least. I don't get any 'clay court', but the rubberiness of tennis balls is definitely present. While I am not much of a sports fan, I do like to follow Tennis. I think it's more about the tightly stretched white fabric over Rafael Nadal's rear end than the actual game, but a certain sort of upper crust romanticism permeates venerable institutions like Wimbledon. The Soft Lawn fails to inspire this romanticism in me ... unfortunately it carries a remarkable similarity to a bathroom air freshener that my mother used to buy when I was a youngster.
Now, I know that sounds a little harsh because the idea behind this frag is great. Unfortunately, when compared to the other frags by this house I have tried, this one leaves me unwilling to wear it. I think I would become annoyed with it during the length of wear its tenacity provides.
Far from denouncing The Soft Lawn, I am sure there are those out there who would love this offering by Imaginary Authors ... unfortunately I am just not one of them.