I bought this product in January this year, 2014 after buying some fake product on line from e bay which give me a full refund without taking back the product.

I have been using this genuine one since then, only once a day onto my whole face, I find it helps to reduce my dark spots a fair bit, both in size and in darkness, i would say they reduced by around 60 to 70%, you can still see them but not as noticeable, I am 51 and I feel the retinol ? in it also reduces my fine line too ;-)

I don't know why, but I am on the fence about the Menscience PRF. I purchased this to even out my skin tone, and also as a bit of a preventitive measure.

After a few weeks use I can say that it definitely does even out skin tone, as well as generally brightening and tightening things up a bit. Surprisingly good for smoothing out moderate wrinkles,with an added bonus of acting as a pore refining serum. I suppose over time it would even out darker spots - but probably over a few months.

It is quite a heavy cream and requires a decent amount if you are shooting for full face and neck coverage. Despite it's thickness it was surprisingly good at not inducing unwanted blemishes.

The smell is quite good, a bit like vanilla cheesecake meets clag... it's better than it sounds!

So... I see this as an excellent night cream and ultimately a good spot treatment if you can wait a few months. However it is quite expensive for just that purpose, given that a bottle would probably only last 4-6 weeks daily use. I think there are better options out there...

hydroquinone 2%? well, it's no good for our face.