Each Imaginary Authors fragrance is inspired by a novel, and this one, The Cobra & The Canary by James Spundt, is all about the 1960’s angst that pushed so many to give up their mundane reality to explore what they thought would be the answer to life, all done in haze of cigarette smoke on the roads of America.

We can smell the leather of the seats and the sexy sweetness of the Tobacco.

When a tip from a clairvoyant leads 23-year old Neal Orris to a rural Connecticut barn housing his deceased father’s secret obsession, a pristine 1964 Shelby Cobra Roadster, it is the getaway ticket he was desperately searching for.

After liberating his best friend Ike from his dead-end job on the family farm, the two hit the open highway.

Aiming for the Palm Springs race tracks, their journey is a blur of seedy motels, cool swimming pools, hot debutantes, cocktails, and cigarette smoke. Each stop finds the friends inventing new pseudonyms and personas for themselves, their innocent game hurtling into the depths of decadence and desolation.

Notes: Lemon, Orris, Tobacco Flowers, Leather, Hay Fields & Asphalt