First Peach of the Season
Eau de Parfum, Imaginary Authors (2026)

Soft, feminine, playful peach scent. More candy-artificial-peach than a realistic-smelling peach. Even then, it's just not as peach-forward as I would like. Tom Ford's Bitter Peach is my go-to peach reference scent, and First Peach of the Season is far more subtle.

A solid, decent scent, but just not much "wow" factor.

Sampling the latest release from Imaginary Authors, First Peach of the Season, a sort of nuanced fruit salad medley led, of course, by peach, the house’s first fragrance to feature a prominent peach note, from what I can recall. It’s fruity but also a bit nectary and floral, infused with the other contributory notes of Chantilly cream, jasmine lactone, honeydew melon, and bigarade. There are creamy and tart qualities that round out the fruity aspect. It certainly feels loud, announcing itself proudly. I generally find peach to be a challenging note to enjoy in perfumery but unsurprisingly find it to be well-executed in this Josh Meyer creation. I’ll have to give it some more thought, myself, but I think peach fans especially should rejoice at this new creation, a nice spring/summer option to complement others in the line like Saint Julep, Sundrunk, and Every Storm a Serenade.

As with the rest of the house, this is EDP concentration and priced at $115 for 50ml, sold in the US via the house website and (soon) the usual retailers, I imagine, like Perfumology.

7 out of 10