Celrynnya

I'm on the BPD spectrum, and it's notoriously difficult to self-diagnose. My advice would be that she should see a health care professional to be properly assessed. If she's seen a therapist and they didn't diagnose her with BPD, she probably doesn't suffer from it. I also suffer from generalized anxiety disorder and major treatment resistant depression. From my experience, certain pheros can put me in a not very good state of mind. I have to be careful with LAM, for example, because something about it can make my depression spike. These kinds of reactions vary from person to person, so it can be hard to pick something for someone else.

I went ahead and got a bottle of Lick of Cream boosted with with Mother's Little Helper; and let me tell you, LoC was no where near heavy enough to cover it. It really does need something heavier and muskier, because the phero note dried down like pee on my skin. Still, at least I now have a sweet base for MLH to layer a heavier scent over

Lovely crumbly cupcake base, with a white chocolate note. Actual white chocolate, not coco butter. This is a similar scent to Lick of Cream, but is more crumbly and cakey than soft and creamy. I'm so very glad this works on me!

This is really pretty, but at the same time it's a little... odd. Well, not odd, but more unexpected. It goes on like Special Delivery (which I adore), but with a deeper core. After an hour or so the currant comes out, but also the coffee to balance it out. Eventually it dries down to a deep resin with the barest hint of chocolate and cherry/currant. It's more of a copal and amber resin than a frankincense resin - it's round at the edges, sweet and dark. This is a more resin-heavy, chocolate-light, barely-fruity Special Delivery. Great for night time wear!

I normally can't wear coffee or dark resin scents, but I'm totally going out on the FB limb with this one.

I so hope this works on my skin...

I can't wait to see the notes!

OooOOOOooo - stalkings already!

I have amazing floral/citrus/patchouli amping skin

I like this. It is a floral with a green/bitter back. It's a little too floral for me, but it isn't overly strong offensive. It would work well layered under something either sweeter or fresher, depending on your preference. It sounds like a very complicated mix of notes, it is very smooth and well-blended. I havn't noticed any other effects from the G2, but it seems to make me a little more mellow and relaxed, particularly around other females. I think this is another of those self-effects-stronger-than-other-effects type of scent. Worth a try if you like florals

Update; unexpected results I've always thought that because I don't slather I'd never really get much in the way of results with pheros other than self-effects. I'm having something of a career quandry at the moment, and I've lost faith in the field I'm in. If you've been aiming for a career for 25 years and finally get there only to find that is all childish selfishness over a rotten core, you kind of have an understaning about where my head is right now. I was going to have a meeting with someone about something I said in passing that I didn't realise I wasn't supposed to bring up, because the managers had a vicious argument about it just the day before. It felt a little like being called to the principal's office. I slathered myself in Red Lace because, well, if there was even a chance of it working I was prepared to give it a shot. I ended up chickening out of the meeting because I'm so disheartened at the moment that I was afraid I would break down in tears with frustration. Everyone in my office knows that I'm very disappointed in the workings of our career, and that I was talking about getting out of the field entirely. That's how frustrated I am. I was alone in my office with one of the boys I work with, staring balefully out of the window, when he looked up from his computer and tried to console me. Now, I like the guy, but he's a little socially awkward (as all nerds like us are), and generally keeps to himself. It was a really nice, if unexpected, gesture. I don't know if it was due to Lace or not, but it's always touching to have someone try to make you feel better when you're down. I think I'll use this for non-work situations, though. It's not that it's not appropriate for the workplace, it's more that I try to be independant and reliable in my job. I don't want to necessarily have people think that I need looking after.

I'm really looking forward to the descriptions!

Oooo, exciting! I'm putting my money on a very "green" scent... kiwi, bamboo, cardamon, sage, all that good stuff.

LP Black is the only standard LP scents that work on me, and I can't for the life of me work out why. Maybe it's because my bottle is super aged (it comes from the era before roller bottles). Dark scents generally don't work on me, and certainly patchouli is a death note on my skin. If used with a light hand, however, the thick, rich, dark combination of honey, patchouli and super dark vanilla works wonders on my skin. It is a dark, heady fragrance that really needs to be used sparingly, but it can do amazing things. It's long lasting, and gets richer and yet lighter on the skin. A perfect perfume if you want to have that lightly-scented yet heady lushness going on.

Stalky stalk..

I'm sooooo impatient. I keep telling myself that I should hold off on buying GC bottles when I know there's an update soon... but I waaant smeeeliies. So far I'm eyeing off bottles of OCCO Gold (just to see if I can tell the difference between it, Sugared Honeycomb and Phero Girl) and Compromising Positions (which shouldn't work on me, but totally does). Maaaaybe Regal Confection. Probably a sample of Lap of Luxury - seeing as how Art of War was such a disaster on my skin, I'm hoping that LoL will be a scented SWS blend that works for me.

I have a bad relationship with chocolate - I love it, but it tends to turn ashy on my skin. This is not the case with A Regal Confection! It's a lovely, rich, sweet, true chocolate. The problem is, after about 90 mins I start amping the coco butter. On me, coco butter doesn't smell like white chocolate, it smells like moisturizer made with coco butter - that sweet but comseticically perfumey scent. It's nice, but I really would have preferred more chocolate.

Thanks ladies! I never slather, so it sounds like I should be okay

In my lab, I get along really well with the man who sits next to me in our office, who is very comfortable with the fact that be prefers gentlemen. We actually joke a lot about how attractive (or not) we find other people in the lab. I have really poor self-esteem and I am always terrified of rejection, so I am concerned that by wearing female pheros I might end up seeming unpleasant to him on an unconscious level. Has anyone had any experience with blantantly female pheros (cops are my poison of choice) causing gay men to shy away? I know it sounds a little silly, but I'd hate to think I come across as some how offensive (because I smell like horny lady bits).

Thanks for the update

Holy myrrh, Batman. Myrrh and I have a difficult relationship at the best of times, and unfortunately this is one of those times where it's all POW! I'M MYRRH! This is incredibly bitter on my skin, but not from a bad reaction with my own chemistry. It's just that the myrrh is so very much stronger than I was expecting. I can smell the other notes under the myrrh, but even the anise (which I tend to amp) is masked by the myrrh. I'd love to wear this, because I was hoping that SWS would help in my current work environment, but unfortunately I think that this just isn't the right scent for me. :/

I got a sample of this on a whim. This, by all rights, should not work on me. So many creamy vanilla scents turn to ashy doom on my skin. My skin amps resins, particularly patchouli - which is unfortunate because I don't like patchouli in the slightest and it makes me feel ill unless it's very, very light. This should be nothing but a horrible, ashy, dirty hippy mess on me. But it works. It works in ways that it should not possibly work. It's a lovely, creamy vanilla with a base of patchouli - but the right kind of patchouli that is so hard for me to find. It's frankly amazing on my skin, considering just about every other cream/vanilla scents from LPMP (except for BBM and Lick of Cream) turn to bitter ash tray dregs that I cannot wash off. As for phero effects, nothing much to write home about. From my test runs of pheros part of this is because I don't slather, but I have a feeling that the pheros I've used blend with my natural pheros and my personality that - if anything - are making me seem more like me, if that makes sense.

OCCO Red Super apricot and almost savory spice as soon as it goes on, but it morphs into sweet apricot within a few minutes and after wear becomes a rich (but not overpowering) brown sugar/maple scent. I am so glad this isn't a disaster on my skin like LP Red or OCCO White! The initial cops + apricot scent is a little cream-cheese-with-fruit smelling, but it is a really good cover all things considered. The apricot is sweet but not cloying like many fruity scents can be. I'm actually really surprised I don't get much in the way of cinnamon given so many of the OCCO Red reviews... my skin continues to be wierd

I really do appreciate the sentiment, but I do enough orders from overseas to accept that it happens sometimes. Besides, I'd rather you not lose money by reshipping a few samples half way across the world. I'll certainly keep this in mind if a full bottle breaks, but that has never happened from LPMP!

I've learned the hard way that if I just get samples in an order, they are likely to get crushed and broken in transit to Australia. My trick these days is to make sure I buy at least two full bottles when I place an order to protect the poor vials! Needless to say, my bottle collection is a little out of hand