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.

A decent dry fruit opening followed by a blast of synthetic spices that had me reeling. The spices are accompanied by a note, perhaps a pungent herb note, I can't identify that really fouled everything up. The sillage must be good because the couple sprays on my neck had me chocking in my office a couple hours later. I actually had to go home on my lunch break and shower the stuff off.

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.

Not a bad scent. Clean and fresh, kinda "incensey!" Nice bottle, cool looking cap. When I first tested this at Macys, I thought it was horrible, but I was offered a few samples and I took them anyway. About a week later after I had forgotten that I even had them I tested one of the samples on my skin and I couldn't tell if I liked it or not, but I couldn't stop smelling it and after a while I thought to myself this fragrance isn't too bad! Only problem is that I'm a Creed Himalaya fan all the way and I'm not saying they're exactly a like at all, but they share similarites that I haden't noticed until testing Usher a few times. They both share a cool, clean, fresh, incense like smell, but you can smell how much more sophisticated and better Himalaya is. Also, I don't think I can wear it just because it says 'Usher' on it! lol! I mean his music's good and all, but it doesn't hold a personal connection with the buyer of the product, you know what I mean?! He could have just helped create the fragrance and named it something cool or sexy or whatever and had a professional model advertise it, but he didn't and to me that ruined it somewhat...he's in the ad, his names on the bottle by itself, i mean what if someone doesn't like you or your music, but likes the scent? I've heard people say they won't by Unforgivable just because they hate P. Diddy! lol! The fragrance is very important, but so is the name and the bottle. Scent is the closest thing tied to memory, which is why fragrance is so important, every bit of that down to the name should show a personal connection to you, have some sort of sentimental value to become a so called "signature scent" just for you, no matter how popular. Even the cap on the Usher bottle is nice, but it's a replica a custom made ring that he (Usher) wears, it has nothing to do with anyone except him. This is the same place that P. Diddy messed up in, everyone knows he wears Creed MI and all he did was give you a less sophisticated version of his favorite fragrance in one of his bottles, only thing he did right though was give his fragrance a name other than Sean John. Sorry to ramble on, but honestly celebrities like musicians and actors are so great until they try to do something that doesn't make them who they are, it's a joke. Johnny Depp is a great actor, but if he created a scent called "Johnny Depp" would I wear it? No! If he helped a brand like Chanel create a scent by throwing some ideas of his own in there and they called it something other than "Johnny Depp" would I wear it, sure if it smells good enough. But it's not "his" scent and the thought that someone like him helped a brand like Chanel create a "Chanel" fragrance, well that's very cool! Catch my drift?!