While summer’s ethos is marketed as free-spirited and easygoing, it’s usually not the case as social calendars fill up, deadlines close in ahead of the late summer lull, and there’s a silent pressure to soak it all in before fall’s first crisp in the air. While planning a bucket list trip to Paris might sound enticing in the spring, a long-haul flight (potentially riddled with delays and cancellations) to a European city amidst summer crowds and hot weather might sound less so as the summer gets into full swing. I’m feeling a bit of this summertime angst, too. So when Lincoln emailed me to take a road trip to somewhere outside New York City— where a heat wave has been taunting us for the better half of the summer—I said, let’s go. Their vehicles, which have shuttled our Marie Claire fashion team between crazy New York Fashion Week schedules, are built to feel like sanctuaries—which we often take to heart, piling ourselves, our show tickets, and laptop computers into the car-turned-mobile-office for hours on end. While I was behind the wheel this time instead of in the passenger's seat, and despite my terrible sense of direction— I felt immediately at peace, which was thanks in part to the new Lincoln Nautilus’s curated scent experience that live in the armrest and can omit on-demand fragrances and the massage options built into the seats. Also, I was headed for some relaxation just a few hour's drive from New York City.
