Rose Blackthorn

 

True, it's so easy to make, I figured I would offer it regularly since there seemed to be so much enthusiasm for it. Was thinking of making a label for it and putting it into the UN phero line for November. (Pheromas, as Beccah has dubbed it!)

Oh Mara! Thank you, thank you, thank you! It really is such a beautiful fragrance. Am glad it is easy for you to make! This one stole my heart. I just love it! I will be placing an order in early August and will definitely be ordering a bottle of this when I do! My heart is smiling just thinking about this! Mara and Levity, thank you for helping us smell so lovely while lifting our spirits!

Of course! I carry my bottle of Levitation with me in my cosmetic pouch in my purse. And.... Somehow twisted itself open and leaked about 1/3 out boo! At least it didn't empty itself I guess... And my bag and makeup smell GREAT now.

OMG! Hearts, i so feel for you I would have been FREAKING!!!

This sounds tricky. Especially since you guys live together at present. If he DOES start dating other women, I have a feeling it's gonna cause a hell of alot of at best awkwardness and at worst hostility in your home life. And your home is your haven, you don't want that.

I'm sorta confused as to the actual reason he broke up with you in "round 2".

"Moving too fast" and "being scared" are very vague reasons to give you. And if they really ARE his reasons for not being with you, then why is he trying to date others? I dunno. My bullshit-o-meter is sounding a bit here. Not on your part,but his.

Could a large part of the problem be that your living together?? Maybe he's scared of a volatile living situation.

Its a big step, but could you possibly move? You could date each other maybe and take things slower,but still have your own respected houses to go to should things get rocky...just a thought.

Phero wise, I honestly wouldn't go TOO sexual, cause sex is sex,not love,and even if it happens it doesn't guarantee a damn thing.

I'd try Cougar maybe, or one of the newer ones like Gotcha or Perfect Match. I've never tried Gotcha,but I've heard great things,and PM is alot like the old Soulmate phero. I tried it for the first time today and had a wonderful experience.

Maybe look into BAM too. I mean sex is awesome,don't get me wrong. If it happens in addition to bonding, great!

But I think your after more than that, which is why I'd go with more of a bonding type of phero.

Good luck though! Y'all sound kinda like Ross & Rachel or somethin!

Keep us posted on the sitch,and what you order!

 

ETA: I just reread your post, it says you THINK he got scared and moved too fast. Hmm.

What was the actual reason he gave for breaking up with you?

Welcome Queen of Limbo. I did read your story and I am going to second a few of Cheeseburger's sentiments here. things being as confusing as they are with you guys, maybe going strictly for pheros to amp up the sex factor could not only make it more difficult to know where you really stand, but actually confuse things more.

Also, Cheezy's bullshit alarm is going off and I think I hear it too. Maybe a good approach would be to try something like TMI? I have not tried it, but many people here sing its praises for having a truth serum sort of effect. Then again, anything which would encourage open communication to simply cut through the BS. Why not consider trying a mult-lateral approach and take Cheezy's advice about the Cougar, PM, throw in some TMI and mix it up and see what happens.

Again, welcome Queen of Limbo and good luck with your situation. You will get some good opinions and advice from the people here. They rock!

My bottle is half way down now!! I'm freaking out....Levitation is my go to everyday perfume now. I love this scent so much and so does everyone that gets around me. I'm actually starting to feel separation anxiety!! Yes, please rebrew! Pretty please!! I don't think I can live without this now!!

I thought there were a couple bottles left from the second rebrew?

 

I've also bought the mad scientist mixture of the pheromone combo in Levitation, so there's always that option too even though it won't have the pretty Levitation smell.

Could alway do a PE in the Levitation vein.

I know! All I have to work with is my little trial vial and I do have a bottle of Open Windows on the way, but the scent of Levitation. OMG... it's fragrance heaven.. I would SO love a rebrew of this, but beyond that, is anyone else with me when I say that this one should be a permanent fragrance? It's just too beautiful to not be. Mara, you really out did yourself on this one. Beautiful doesn't aptly describe it. This one is heaven...

I am nine and a half years older than my partner. Been together for 20 yrs. in April. We have problems, but age has never been an issue at all. I would not let the age factor disuade me at all.

Because of my interesting and positive results w/ the Open Windows that I was able to experience through my sample of Levitation ( I SO wish I could have gotten a bottle of Levitation before it sold out, but didn't have the $$$ in time ) and because of all of the positive imput I got from people here on OW, I ordered a bottle of spray 60/40 alcohol/ silicone base for both myself and my partner, since he expressed an interest in trying it too. We felt that it was something we could both benefit from.

Also, all for me, trial vials of SMF, Cougar, Sex and Violins, and requested OCCO Black and Gold. Can't wait for my order to arrive! This stuff should all be VERY interesting!

Welcome Loki!

Welcome Janey and Ailsie!

Love the concept of this one! Sounds like a fun and sexy fragrance. Sadly for me, my skin amps Vanilla to the point where it SCREAMS on me. Same thing with Cinnamon) but if it's very, very subtle, or a very light type of Vanilla, then I can do it well depending on what else is in it. I think the Marshmallow would come across as Vanilla on me for sure. But this sounds like a sexy confection.

Ooohhhh.. Dolly's Resin Ho! Beautiful label Mara and the description sounds wickedly dark and sexy. I love Resins. Not surprised that this one went fast at all! BTW, all of the labels are quite lovely on these.

@ Dolly and Beccah. Hi ladies! Just placed my order! Of course I went for OW, also trial size Violins and Sex <smiles @ Dolly>, a trial size of Cougar, trial size of OCCO SMF ( hey, you have to have some fun too, right?) and I requested OCCO Black and Gold as my free samples. So excited!!!

Beccah, I read your post, for many, many years I have practiced meditation, worked w/ crystals. reiki, as well as a solitary practioner/HP of The Craft, etc. These past two years, my life has been really strange, and I felt like I had begun to do a very scary downward spiral. I can't say that I am out of it yet, but I am finding my WILL again and pulling myself up. Hardest I have had to try ever. Your advice is *excellent*! I am a former teacher of working with Chakras, and I have never had all of them so out of whack in all my life. My lines of thought were about the same as yours, i.e., using multiple sciences to complement each other for the best results. I am at a crossroads now and we all know how rough that can be. I totally hear what you are saying about the whole surreal weirdness thing. I have been feeling it too. I just thought it was me w/ a bit of Mercury retrograde thrown in just for shits and giggles. Like you, I sensed a need to shake something up. CHANGE something! I put a pure white rose on my altar to Bast, lit a white candle, and went crazy smudging the entire house w/ pink rose incense ( it helps cleanse my heart). Also, I meditated w/ a rose quartz heart. Afterward I thought to myself, THIS, I must do for myself and do often! And funny you should mention balance, because my favorite meditational breathing is the balancing alternate nostril breathing. Feels soooo good. I have a bunch of quartz crystal points that need cleansing and charging, and once I have done that, I will make and try the crystal water. In fact, I feel the urge to cleanse ALL of my magical gems now. Renewal baby! Because new beginnings can happen any time you want to make them happen! Thanks so much for all of the good advice I have been given. I can't tell all of you how much I appreciate it. And BTW, will be back w/ full reports on the various cool potions I ordered <hugs and hugs and hugs>

@ Dolly and Chai.. I think you are both right! I'll tell you, I must have REALLY been repressing a lot of heavy feelings, because my emotional floodgates just flew open at one point, it all came out, and after that felt utterly exhausted, knocked off for about an hour woke up, felt so.. I dunno, refreshed? Renewed? I doubt that OW typically plays this rough w/ most people, but my situation has been a bit weird for a while. And the fact that my reaction was SO intense, to me, simply means that the windows needed opening ladies. Playful, happy, smiley, friendly, beautiful stuff, but so very, VERY potent. This one could actually help bring on a much needed breakthrough if you are like me.

OMG @ Dolly!!! That's *awesome*! LMAO!!! Too funny.

OMG, all of you were SO right! Just a question on this though, I am going along my merry way here enjoying my happy little buzz ( it's been a long time since I've had one of those) and find myself getting a bit bitchy if I feel that anything or anyone threatens to bring me down. ( example: my guy being noncommital about what he wants for dinner temporarily made me growl) I am assuming it is just me because of the long bout of being down I am fiercely protecting the feeling, or is this another weird hormone trick?

I have had so much BS going on in my life this past year, have just been out of it. A couple of months ago, I ordered Sexpionage and Mara very kindly included a sample of this which I never got around to trying until today due to my quest to figure out whether it's OW or h and S that I need to order. The scent description is so NOT my type of scent, I likely read the description and thought, "well that's nice" and put it aside. I am usually more the dark, resiny, exotic, smoky, honey type.

I dug this out today with the sole purpose of seeing if OW in it would work well for me. OMFG!!!!!! NO WAY!!!! I SO love this stuff!! To me, it smells like a delectable edible heart of orchid dipped in a luscious strawberry cream coating. Yummm.. No one could have convinced me at any point in my life that I would fall so hard for scent in this fragrance family! Maybe it's the OW and DHEAs. I don't care! I adore it!

And the feeling... OMG, the high that I get on this!!! I wasted a lot of money on lexapro over the past year and have been off of it for about 3 months since it wasn't working anyway. If I simply put myself on Levitation from this point on, I might never need an antidepressant again and maybe never have to endure one of my abyssmal <sp> Capricornian black mood binges again. I feel so damned UPLIFTED ( Levitated?) and love, love, LOVE this fragrance! I feel and smell like a shiny, happy person, and that is so very out of character for me. Please Mara? P retty please w/ candy coated orchids on top.. won't you please do do a rebrew of this beautiful stuff?

Aha!!!! Guess what ladies? I went through my treasure chest ( I am so very disorganzied- I truly forget what I have!) and found a precious, precious vial of LEVITATION!!! It was another of Mara's very kind samples that I hadn't gotten around to trying yet. Was up til dawn and on the forums and reading, reading, reading. I looked carefully at some of the newer releases, going back to spring and saw the description for Levitation Of course, it contains what... Open Windows!!! Woohoo!! I have it on right now and I don't think I have to tell you how beautiful this one smells. ( swoons) Heartbreaker that this one is sold out! I am doing the wrist sniffing thing in between typing. So, now I can test drive the OW by wearing this scrumptious concoction, and will hopefully be able to make a decision on what to order. In my astological chart, i have my Moon in Libra, so decisions are a bit of a problem for me and to make it worse, my "must have" list is getting long as hell! Thanks again though ladies. If you had not emphasized the OW to me, I may never have dug through the goodies after doing all the reading and found this to try. I think I feel a tad perky?

Welcome VexedGlory!

I am referring to myself as a "recycled newbie" here. I discovered the beautiful potions here and was hooked a few years back or so. I didn't know ANYTHING about pheros back then and am still quite confused and learning about them now. Back then though, i think i thought it was just as simple as "This smells great! It has pheros! This is all that I need!" HAH! Little did I know how complex these things are.

So I came back to learn and to learn it right. The people here are well learned in this arena, are awesomeness incarnate, and have the best advice to offer and are very generous in responding with help. If you're willing to listen and learn, you really can't go wrong. Welcome again and good luck experimenting with your new goodies! And as a bonus.. it really iS a lot of fun here!

Wow Madison! I am just now reading your review and am thinking, "Umm.. I'll have what SHE'S having!!!"

Ohhhh Storemy.. most luscious food for thought! If the hormones don't make you dizzy, then the myriad choices will. BTW, love your avatar!

Wow, Dolly, that is really strange! How sad that your man reacts that way, especially if it makes you feel good. I guess i just figured that the meno being mostly done, it might sort of balance things out. I suppose that would just be too easy though!

Beccah, thank you for that quote. Chocked full o' info on the stuff. I would *love* to feel adored and could use to lighten up at times for sure. Fact is, some people find me difficult to approach until they know me. I find it funny that anyone would be intimidated by ME. Not that I am a wimp, mind you, but I don't see how I scare anyone. Hormones are very funny things ( ha ha! Just hilarious) though aren't they ladies?

I am thinking I could go digging through my collection and see what contains est and "test" it. The last thing I need is a disagreeable man! Thanks for taking the time to try to help me sort this out ladies. I really do appreciate it. Will follow up on my experimenting and let you know how the est goes over. I guess the results will be a mystery to all of us and you just can't know until you try.

This is great. I love using H&S with my teenage boy, it definitely tames him. It doesn't work on my husband, though & when I have to deal w/ mechanics, car rental guys, my period, etc. H&S turns the protective aspect into a hindrance & amps my PMS to an 11 on the weepy scale. If I was forced to choose between one or the other, for monetary reasons, I would get Open Windows first. Btw,

Thank you Beccah! I really enjoy being here! I learn and laugh at the same time. I wish all lessons in life were this fun! And hey, the company is awesome!

And the confusion mounts! lol!

Tyvvey, funny you mention Cougar, I *have* considerd this one too!

Stacy, I know, OW def sounds like a winner. I will get it for sure, at this point, it's just a matter of in what order.

Beccah and Dolly, I think since I am seemingly mostly through menopause, the est, MIGHT be ok for me. In fact, I am wondering if a little extra estrogen at this point in time might even be a smart thing to add?

Maybe I will break out my divining rods on this question and run each potion by them to see if I get strong strong yesses or noos on any. yes, i really do consult them on things when I am finally at a loss. That is more often than I care to admit!

Ohhh... I am SO curious about this one! Just might have to order a sample vial at least. Gotta love the down and dirty potions, when the time is right, there is nothing like them.

I am completely inexperienced w/ the OCCOs, but Mara very kindly added a sample vial of OCCO Blue to my last order. Thank you PM!!! I was having so much fun playing w/ my Sexpionage (lol) that I had forgotten about the OCCO Blue and am going to be placing an order soon and wanted to order a sample vial and just didn't know which one/s to order, so I brought out the Blue to try finally.

I have it on right now and I must say that this is a VERY pretty, very feminine, soft and sexy fragrance. On my skin, it is a bit too "girly", or maybe that's just my sense of it. It is extremely well blended ! I had a hard time picking out any distinct ingredients in it other than perhaps what I think is a hint of Iris which lends the lovely powdery scent? And then I think there is vanilla. Having the cops, you can expect the usual Cops 'cheesiness" upon initially applying it but give it a half hour or so and it should be fine depending on your skin type. If I had to describe it more simply, then I would simply say, imagine powdered sweet flowers w/ an artfully added hint of vanilla. At least that's what I get. It really is beautiful, but having read all of your delicous descriptions, I think I will just HAVE to go with trying Occo Gold and also Black when I order. They sound delicious!

Thanks so much ladies! From what you are all telling me, Open Windows is def going on my list, but reading the comparisons here, I also think that I need Heart and Soul. I am at that point where after years of BS in the love arena, I have become a bit hardened, numb, and cynical. This is NOT who I typically am! I want/ need to get back to my old self and H and S sounds like who I was So.. I think I will work first w/ the H and S (because no one is attracttive when they have a chip on their shoulder, just in case I have one!) then order the OW once it's time for this social gathering. And again sweet ( and spicy) ladies.. thank you, thank you, thank you. I really appreciate and respect the experience of everyone here and their willingness to share their thoughts. never doubt that you rock! <hugs>