Reviews of Usher for Men (2007)
by Usher

Smells like a rip-off of Unforgivable (which was, in turn, a rip-off of Creed).

Pathetic.

Dousing yourself with Pepto-Bismol would probably be wiser than wearing this brew, and you would be less offensive to those in your immediate surroundings. Nauseating.

Not impressed at all. I tried this after a suggestion from a female friend who thought it was wonderful (and I tried the sample.) After buying it and wearing it for a few days, I was not impressed. It seemed like a cheap pungent knock off of Versace. You definitely pay for a name and great packaging rather than the scent.

This is not a pleasent scent. At least to my nose its not.. I would have thought Usher would have developed a better frag then this but I guess I was wrong! It has really no distinct smell to me & it should def go in the bargain bin but it wont because it bares Usher's name on it. + the bottle is plain & ugly! Nothing sticks out that makes me say HEY! I WANT TO TRY THAT! LAME & BORING!

Where do people get the comparison to Versace Black Jeans? I smell no tar or leather in this, just a cheap lavender and vetiver in a simple black with silver lettering on it to encourage hipsters that it's good. This smells more like a really, really fake knock-off of Silver Mountain Water/Green Irish Tweed hybrid. I fear this only sells because of the name. I witnessed two teenage girls in the store go straight for this after they saw it, smelled it, giggled, said they loved it, smelled nothing else and walked off. Oh, this stuff is boring but I suppose it appeals to the pre-adolescent girls' noses.

Let me say before I go any further that I remain steadfastly neutral with regards to celebrity perfumes. I think equating a complex fragrance with many ingredients to one particular person is pretty much dumb. I own Sean John Unforgivable on the merits of it being an excellent fragrance, and honestly don’t give a damn if it was made for Sean Combs or Sean Connery.

Gratuitously lifting the notes from K over at Now Smell This, Usher He features pineapple, verbena, melon, white pepper, lavender, violet leaf, vetiver, amber wood, black suede, sandalwood, guaiac wood and musk. Upon applying, all I could smell was slightly overripe melon a la Paris Hilton for Men. The drydown was a chemical mess, but I got a little glimmer of where they were trying to take this, and that was to copy Creed Himalaya. Of course, I’m not against this; Unforgivable is virtually identical to Creed Millesime Imperial and I have no problem wearing it (and saving mad bank, to boot). The problem is that they didn’t put the effort into the copy that Sean John did. I get the pepper, and the vetiver/musk duo, but that’s really all that I can pick out, everything else is just a blob of scent.

Color me unimpressed.

Ditto smells a like a watered down version of Versace Black Jeans.

Smells like a very cheap version of Versace's Black Jeans.