I really try to give every fragrance I obtain a week of wearing before I review it because I think you need a bit of time to form a competent judgement. I've never disliked a scent enough to just stop wearing it during my week trial. I wore this for 3 days and after that I couldn't do it anymore. This is the first time I couldn't a whole week of wearing.
This smells like spearmint gum with a hint of natural food store smell, flat out. The spearmint is exactly the same spearmint accord in toothpaste and gum and mouthwash. It's like 80% of the scent experience. The other 20% combo of aromatic herbs is there, no doubt, but I can't pick out the tarragon from the lavender from anything else. Natural food stores have always sort of smelled like old pay-doh to me, and that same effect is in the background here. The drydown is a bit better because the spearmint tones down so the balence between the accords is better, but it doesn't really smell different.
It doesn't feel like a finished, professional scent to me. It smells way way wayyyy too much like gum and toothpaste. Even though all kinds of personal use products have fragrance, perfume is supposed to be a different scent experience. When a perfume smells too much like a Yankee candle or a laundry detergent or a body soap, it has failed in some way. This fragrance smells like I'm brushing my teeth with spearmint toothpaste after chomping down on some really heavily herbed, non-salty bread.
It performs well at least. For being a body spray, it stuck to my clothes for more than 24 hours, and on skin it was still detectable after 7 hours. I do think it's really sensitive to friction though, so if you put it on your arm and are wearing long sleeves you might get closer to 4 hours. It projects like hell for the first 30-60 minutes.
The bottle is easier to use than you'd think. It was very easy to spray it on myself despite the windex bottle design. Plus there's a little stopper thing to block the spray handle from accidentally depressing.
