xev

I am loving LP black more and more. It is sexy sexy with a touch of darkness and just a hint of hippie (from the resins I guess -- I've always thought resins=incense). Anyway, I've just about burned through my trial vial so I'm going to have to pick up a bottle of it.

I think my scent preferences have being going through (yet another) metamorphosis. Like, I'm ready to try other things that I thought I'd never like (or tried in the past and didn't like).

When you say b-nols...are you refering to b- androstEnol or b-androstAnol? I've come across confusing info at the other forum...there's just so much info out there!

AndrostEnols

You are the Still Waters that Run Deep, xev! Do you have your Spiders From Mars yet...?

Haha I had to google that...

Hurray, I'm now Ziggy Stardust.

Only 600 posts and I've been here since 2008. I guess I'm not much of a talker.

My vote would be to wear nothing, or very little. If you get really hot and sweaty, scents (perfume, pheros, and body) will start amping like mad and pheros can break down in to funky BO smells. EoW will start smelling like it does before dry-down. I generally workout at the end of the day; I have whatever remains of whatever I applied in the morning, but I don't ever reapply anything before working out.

I love pherogirl!! This thread reminds me I will need more soon. I'm down to the dregs of a bottle and one trial vial.

Oh wow, I got some of this in a trade and tried it last night. I am so glad I have a bottle of this -- it is really a very unique scent! And yes, very very naughty, somethin I would never wear to work for sure!

The interesting part is that it reminds me of Chanel no. 5. Definite aldehyde-y notes to my nose. (no one else described it this way - I wonder if it has matured in some way since its brewing). I even compared it to my bottle of knock-off Chanel no. 5. Yes it is similar. But more musky and more fruity. I've always liked 5 but its not quite me -- to lady-like and too many old ladies wear it. But add the musky, dirty, peach and its alot more me :-)

After sleeping in it, this morning it is just a barely there skin musk.

How do you know if you're 'amping' something or not?

Well I can tell you what I mean by "amping". It means that a particular fragrance note that is perhaps minor and balanced in a scent when smelled wet, becomes stronger and stronger the longer it sit on my skin. This can be good or bad, but usually people comment on "amping" when they don't like the result.

I'm so worried thatI'm going to smell too strongly that the "I'm 'allergic' to all scent" folks will be feigning attacks or something...yet, I want to have SOMETHING hovering about me.

Well, ask for some trusted opinions if you want, but in my experience, Love Potion scents do not bother perfume-hating kinds of people. I know a few of these people, and they've never been bothered by LPMPs, which hang close to the body because they are oil based. Though, even when you order these scents in sprays, they are still never as obnoxious as conventional commercial perfumes.

Even when I "slather", I don't think it becomes offensive to other people.

And as for the pheros, which is mostly my interest rather than plain scent, that's a harder thing to guage, since there's no meter to rely upon that goes from green to red as a re-ap is needed. I just keep rolling and rubbing and adding...and hoping for the best!

Pheros are whole 'nother matter. How much is enough has to be gauged by people's behavior and what they say around you. But again, if you are using oil based or silicone based pheros, you are probably not overdosing everyone around you.

Oh...and...drydown? How does one know, particularly with an oil, if the 'dry' is completely 'down'? I find myself using the roller oils, then spraying my fav (from elsewhere, who's scent seems to make most here very unhappy but that I myself adore...maybe it just works well with my chemistry) and letting it all 'do it's thing'. Is there a protocol for one oil with another with an alcohol-based spray?

If you are talking about drydown of cops -- 15 mins or so? is probably good. If you are talking about fragrance, you don't need a particular drydown time, but you might notice that the scent changes during drydown.

Are you talking about spraying alcohol-based pheros on top of oil-based perfume? I do that sometimes, and it seems to give the best of both worlds in terms of phero silage and making it last longer than alcohol-based alone. I used to not mind a certain androgenous default scent in a certain brand of phero, but over time I think my nose just got more sensitive and it began to bother me in terms of how well it blended with my fav LPMPs.

This is really beautiful and complex. It has some similarities to Nakai Nectar, but more sophisticated.

As soon as I smelled it, it caused a bunch of memories, thoughts and feelings to flood back that I was having during the time I was wearing Nakai Nectar. It is so amazing to me how smells can be tied to memories. Just takes my breath away, fighting some tears, feeling melancholy, yet at the same time loving the experience.

Mara, thank you so much for the Zzzap! peppermint spray -- I really like it!! I forgot to request that as my freebie when I placed my order, and you are so generous to inlude it!

An LP sniffie would have mixed with the alcohol though. Possets uses vegetable oil base that doesn't mix with anything.

I have a package that will arrive tomorrow or friday. Super excited!!

This is another scent I'm going to have to revisit. It was one of my first orders, I think, but my tastes have changed so much since then.

Don't know if there will be a Feb. order because I have to call in a plumber to fix the kitchen sink, but if I find some slush, I'd like to get

LP Pink in a spray, amped with something -- cougar maybe.

and I'm going to try LP red again. I've found I can wear LP black (much to my surprise) if I layer on something very vanilla-y (a similar vanilla to what's in it) to counteract my skin's tendency to amp resins, spices and patchouli. I always loved Red when wet, and I'm hoping this blending strategy will allow me to wear it.

I like UN pheros because of the versatility in terms of scents. Though, the last two phero bottle's I've bought I've done beta sprays lightly scented with Sugared Honeycomb. This is one of my favorite scents and it layers with just about everything else I like. So its like a scent undergarment.

They found that without a "target female" involved, that men's testosterone levels did not rise as they hoped they would.

Yes, this is true -- I've read the original research papers.

Copulins alone do not raise a man's testosterone.

Copulins + female human = elevated testosterone

Let me put it this way: in a world of male hegemony, I'd say one advantage is entirely fair.

Indeed :-)

I tried a little decanted sample of this a long time ago that I got in a trade. It did not smell anything like the descriptions here. I have wondered if it was mislabeled or contaminated. The notes I got were all incensey and resins -- no vanilla or brown sugar.

I need to try this again.

I just ordered a spray bottle Darling Clementine, and couple of wax melts (haven't tried them yet), and Treasure of Pearl and Treasure of Emerald samples.

It is important to remember that people vary in whether or not they can smell some pheromones, and if so, whether they smell pleasant or unpleasant.

For example, I really cannot smell androstenone (one of the male pheros). It smells a little musky, like clean sweat, neither pleasant nor unpleasant. However, to some people it smells sweet, and to some other people, it smells very unpleasant even at tiny doses.

Just something to remember -- just because something doesn't need a cover to your nose doesn't mean it doesn't need a cover to other people.

Here is another thing to expect from trying LP fragrances: expect your tastes to change over the course of a year or so. When I first tried these scents, I traded away quite a few things that I should have held on to. And some things I kept but didn't care for at first, I found that I liked a lot after a while.

Maybe I am misreading Cman888's and Isa's posts? But it sounds like there is some confusion about what an essential oil is (if not please pardon my explanation.)

Essential oils are mixtures of all the volatile compounds that can be extracted from one particular plant species. To be an essential oil, the oil must not have anything else added to it. But essential oils by themselves don't make great perfumes, because they generally don't last very long without being blended with base notes. Also, many essential oils are caustic and irritating to the skin, so they can't be used without dilution.

LPMP's potions are perfumes, not essential oils. Some essential oils are used as perfume ingredients, along with other natural and synthetic perfume compounds, and whatever solvent its in (DPG, silicone, or alcohol).

Hi 888:

If you go back to the home page, click on "gift shoppe" and then click on "for men" you will find all the men's and unisex scents together in one place. Some are already pheromone enhanced.

Or, from the home page, click on "perfumerie" and you can filter a search by "men" and also by the fragrance notes you are interested in (woodsy, resinous, etc).

The perfumes can be ordered in an oil base, an alcohol base, or (on the beta testing page) a 60/40 alcohol/oil blend.

The unscented pheros can be ordered in the same bases, plus an additional option of a silcone base.

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable about the men's scents will help you out here with regard to specific pheromone cover suggestions.

I keep refreshing the new content page. January is usually a themed set of some kind, right?

Welcome Jones! Another favorite of many people is sugared honeycomb -- very sexy!

Advice to both of you is to let your tastes evolve a while. Especially if you haven't experienced artisan perfumes before and have only tried department store scents. You many initially not like a scent, or thing its just not you, but after a while you may both change your mind. So don't immediately trade away or give away one you don't initially like.

I didn't try this until this week. Why? because LP original and red didn't work well for me -- they both started out fabulous but then the patchouli and spices would amp up and take over. And I usually can't do brown sugar -- it ends up smelling like hot dogs on me. Plus I generally don't like resinous scents on me (okay to smell, just don't go with my personality). So far, the only scent that works for me that has patchouli is LP Pink.

So I was surprised at how marvelous this is! I don't get the funny brown sugar effect, and while the patchouli and resins do take over, its not so much, plus I mitigated that somewhat by layering it with a vanilla-centric scent. I've tried both Nom, nom, nom, and LP Pink and both tame down the resins and patchouli in the black and keep it smelling like it does wet.