Use Abuse

I have the travel size for testing. I really quite like this. I'm not certain if I will get a full bottle just yet. And I'm not sure I would have made the association of this with Queen and Freddie Mercury. I lived the 80s as a teenager and am a big Queen fan. Freddie's was a larger than life figure to me. So I would have expected a perfume inspired by his music to be large and OUT!!! To me this is a new romantic fragrance reminding me of Spandau Ballet or Adam Ant. Beautiful spicy and fresh. Goody two shoes, don't drink, dont smoke...what do you do? A subtle innuendo is how this sits on my skin. So I'll use my travel size and see if I am desperate for more!! I think I like this for spring and summer. I'm getting lots of incense and floral notes. It lasts about six hours on my skin but forever on my clothes and I'm here for it!

Use Abuse is not very neat and tidy, however I am drawn to its uniqueness. The first spritz there is a crayon-esque odor that made me think I need to scrub, but then it wafts around in a spiking white floral and settles into a orange pomander. Weird, but the top note of mandarin orange influences the base notes even at dry down. Also, the incense note in this concoction is not usual either, I cannot abide incense and I cannot even detect it in Use Abuse. I'm looking for more because it is a strange, quirky scent that make me happy.

This smells amazing! Its musky, perfumey, and unique

Despite being a white floral I don't find this remotely feminine. I don't know if I'm smelling something different to everyone else and my bottle got mislabelled but it's distinctly masculine to me. Instead of the standard one drop of tuberose which overpowers anything anyway, it hits you with a very heavy dose of tuberose. I can't even smell the vanilla but I can tell there's something softening the harshness of the tuberose one moment and the next moment the citrus which I also cannot detect but know something's there enhancing the harshness of the tuberose and sharpening it to the point it smells almost metalic. The only fragrance I can I can identify without looking is the tuberose but it's being dragged in every different direction it can go either by complimenting it's different qualities or contrasting with them. I don't think I've ever liked a tuberose fragrance as much as this. The dry down only takes place about 10 hours after wearing and just slowly fades into a skin scent of light cedar after 12 hours like nothing has ever been there. I'm definitely looking forward to wearing this on a night out.

This gives me a strong synthetic vibe, like someone else mentioned below an oriental spa, but a perfumey version of it, not actual oils and plants. The musk and the mandarine are strong, then opoponax takes a twist on them and makes it something else, something that is not as clean and simple anymore. I'd call this a weird citrus-floral scent, it reminds me some of the Blue Bottles of Histoires-de-Parfums, cant put my finger on which one exactly, #5 or #6...I'd wear it in warm weather, but not sure it's full bottle worthy for me personally