The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Imaginary Authors has built its reputation on treating fragrance as narrative, each bottle a chapter in an ongoing literary experiment. Josh Meyer founded the Portland house in 2012 with the intention of creating scents that read like memoirs and novels rather than cosmetic products. In Love With Everything continues this tradition, taking its title from a 1982 novel that has likely never been adapted into a fragrance brief before. The novel follows a clique of teenage girls navigating the pre-Miami Vice nightlife of South Beach, moving through roller discos and seedy bars with a relentless energy that borders on recklessness. Meyer translated this spirit into a composition built around excess: punch that implies weekend nights, sugar that suggests poor decisions made at 2 AM, and a raspberry note that carries something both youthful and vaguely dangerous.
The note philosophy behind In Love With Everything reflects a specific moment in fragrance history when sweet accords became a dominant force in modern perfumery. Punch, sugar, and raspberry form a trifecta of sweetness that deliberately recalls the era when gourmand fragrances ruled counters and sugar became a primary building block rather than a supporting element. Citruses temper this sweetness with their natural acidity, while sandalwood provides the kind of woody foundation that prevents the composition from existing entirely in the air without any connection to the skin beneath it.
The evolution
The arc of In Love With Everything moves like the plot of its namesake novel: it arrives already in progress, already fully committed to its own momentum. Punch opens with an immediacy that suggests a drink already in hand, the citrus notes brightening the sweetness before it can settle into something too heavy. Raspberry follows closely, its tartness cutting through the sugar like a question asked at the wrong moment. Sugar amplifies everything, pushing the composition toward a confectionery intensity that feels both youthful and slightly excessive. Sandalwood enters the composition as a narrative counterpoint, its creamy woodiness preventing the sugar from completely dominating the story. The citrus notes continue to flicker throughout, their brightness offering brief respite from the sweetness before each new wave of sugar and raspberry arrives. There is no clean resolution, no traditional drydown that moves the composition into new territory.
Cultural impact
Imaginary Authors built its audience on the promise that scent is storytelling. In Love With Everything is the house at its most open, the literary reference is explicit, the mood is summer excess, the composition is unabashedly sweet. It stands apart from the house's more introspective work (Memoirs Of A Trespasser, Yesterday Hit) by being purely about the moment rather than memory. Wearers describe it as an energy boost, the fragrance equivalent of a song that comes on at exactly the right time. The synthetic-forward structure puts it in conversation with modern juice culture, but the restraint keeps it from becoming literal punch. It's a niche fragrance for people who want to smell like a concert, not a cathedral.
