BPAL review: Usher

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USHER

"This is Roderick Usher: a faded genteel light musk and fougere, heightened by hectic white mint, gleaming mandarin, ethereal tea leaf and gritty blackcurrant brushed by the scent of the tarn that surrounds the House, and the gloom and decay of the walls that hold him."


Mint never used to give me a headache. D: I've tried it twice, and the while it didn't hurt my head the second time, the mint--a flavor and scent I usually love and like just fine in tea--makes this smell like...something cheap and chemical, like toothpaste, or candy. It just doesn't mesh with the other notes at all, and when I've got it on, I just want to scrub it off and put on a nicer perfume.