Mystic nails the menthol bite, without overpowering and numbing the taste buds. It's pretty darn close to perfection in a life post-menthol analogs. I don't feel like I "gave up" anything.
Have you steeped Southern Classic? The clove flavor tones down dramatically quite a bit, and you're left with a delicate fresh bouquet of citrus and honey. It is however, one flavor you can't get away with not cleaning or swapping the coil/wicks FAR more often than all the other flavors. If you don't maintain the hardware with this one, the flavor greatly diminishes into unsatisfactory territory, dark and muted... but fresh... WOW!