The back garden path is a different beast, being exposed to the sun and occasionally hot and baked. It thrives in damp shade, like any other mint. The Corsican mint should be happy here either way. Maybe he'll pause for a moment and breathe it in. I am about to introduce another plant here, Corsican mint ( Mentha requienii) which will do much the same as the mind-your-own-business looks-wise, but will release minty wafts as the milkman stomps up the path at 5am. Slowly the pathway becomes a little less "cheap bricks from Wickes" and a little more "ancient and mossy track to hidden waterfall". In places it has taken and created the look I was after. It will regenerate from tiny sections of the root, so on completion of the path I filled a bucket with compost and chopped a clump of very small stems into it, then brushed this into the cracks and watered it. It creeps along the ground, verdantly, and is perfect for running through crevices. This is often sold as a houseplant, a kind of mound of green in a pot, but it survives outside (though it can look a bit ropey in midwinter). I already had mind-your-own-business ( Soleirolia soleirolii) in the borders, and liked it. At the front of the house I have shade and a gappy path laid a couple of years ago. You have very different options depending on whether your path basks in sun or lurks in shade. I did this around some truly naff crazy paving a few years back, and while it didn't exactly turn it into a thing of beauty, it softened it enough for me to live with it until I had the funds to rent a strong man and a skip.
PLANTING ELFIN THYME BETWEEN PAVERS CRACKED
It's possible your hard landscaping is of a dodgy standard already and with a sturdy knife you can jemmy out some cracked cement between the paving and sprinkle compost in its place. It isn't necessary badly to build an entire path to avail yourself of soil-filled crevices.
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