In 1998 a group of students who were members of the song-writing club at Chinese Culture University created the band Peppermint. With the "band fever" of that era, mainstream companies expressed interest in signing them, "but the condition was the lead guitarist had to be replaced with a woman, so that Peppermint could be marketed as a girl band!"
1998 年由文化大學詞創社學生所成立的獨立樂團「薄荷葉」，當年在「樂團熱」之下，也曾有主流唱片公司表達簽約興趣，「但條件是把吉他手換成女生，把薄荷葉變成更有『賣點』的女子樂團！」