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Today my daughter had a singing performance, which included her singing "My Way." She had asked my boyfriend to go, and he's actually been to some of the rehearsals. I reminddd my daughter's dad, and let him know BF was coming, too. I was wearing 6 sprays Lumina. We sat together, my ex-husband and son right behind myself and my boyfriend. Everyone seemed more comfortable in this awkward scenario than usual, my son was cuddly with his dad and BF and I weren't scared to touch each other a little bit and we were all making jokes. Afterwards we all took the kids to eat. It was still awkward, but my ex was much more talkative and friendly than usual. So when our kids are involved, Lumina will be my phero of choice. If it's just me and him and no one else, UN Dom or Swimming with Sharks will be my constant go-to's from now on.

Like too much at once? (This is s real question, I am not a troll!) I've been saving it for a special occasion so it would have to be too much at once. Is this a real thing? Strangely, around 11pm, I put a little more on my wrists and smelled it, no problem. And now I'm congested today, but I wasn't yesterday.

Um, help. I love this scent. I feel like I just drenched myself in it. I'm not smelling it!!! I bet everyone at party I'm going to will fall in love with my neck, but why can't I smell me?

I'm looking forward to all of your reviews so I hope Mr Postman delivers!

I'll have to check out Myrrh Merlot today then, I'd say soft purple way before hard, but maybe glossy more than fuzzy. Amber for sure. No lavender in her voice. The feeling is more like the smoothness of very expensive very well made wooden furniture, a furniture company that's been in one family for a long time and each piece takes months to make and the artist signs the piece somewhere. There's a company called Thomas Moser that makes furniture like that. It might not look so amazing in pictures but if you go into the store, it seems like a really good idea to caress and pet all the wood. Not polished glossy, but velvety smooth wood. https://www.thosmoser.com/product/cumberland-table/

Bella, I'm really grateful you wrote this review because I'm sitting here WITH MY LIPS BURNING. EVE generously gifted me this Boo Berry and I'm starting to make my way through her amazing box. Because I get no berries on my skin and enough spice to hurt myself, I decided that possibly I just opened a FB that accidentally had Boo Berry label on but was really something else! So I was comparing it to Boo Berry sample, which I smell the berries in the vial, then was smelling rollerball, where I kinda smell the berries, then slathered so much on the back of my hand that it got all over my lips while keeping my nose on it. I am winning today, for sure. My spicy lips and I have been sitting here trying to figure out the great mystery of which fall LP is actually in this bottle to no avail. I know all the others because they were my first sample set so I've studied them fairly well. I think maybe I just needed to shake the bottle? Or can a scent in perfumers alcohol really behave so differently in oil? My box from Eve included homemade chocolate cookies, btw. Everything I've ever opened from anyone here has been spectacular as far as delightful surprises, but Eve has just up-leveled the entire playing field. If this were a class on sending packages of delight and we were going to be graded on a curve, I would just drop out. Cookies. And they're really good, like perfect. I like a crunchier cookie, and oftentimes if they're crunch enough for me they're a little flat because of all the butter required. I strongly dislike undercooked/chewy cookies. By "strongly dislike" I mean that I'll still eat them, but strongly feel as though so much of their potential was wasted. I'm going to step away from the perfumes for a bit. Mercury is indeed retrograde, but I'm hoping to set up my new coffee pot without electrocuting myself or poking my eye out. UPDATE: I've worn this twice again, and I've found it smells amazing on me at the 2 hr make and stays that way for another 3 hours. If I put a little BBM on top of it like I did today, it's perfect from the gate and stays perfect as BBM fades and Boo Berry morphs throughout the day.

Okay, phew. When Sai Baba said, "Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it Improve on the silence?" he wasn't speaking directly to me, so clearly I'm exempt. I talk A LOT.

I tried the combo for teaching, the Focus part was good, but maybe too much Topper. I've been wearing Lumina a lot, which is great and fun for me but I'm never serious. Today I was a little too personal. That might sound weird but I'm the teacher so I can't always just be like "one of the guys," I can't tell as many personal stories as I do. Focus alone would be better but I love the dheas selfies! I need to be more serious and separate, though. A male student asked me to go get coffee with him after class yesterday and that was unexpected and awkward. Not horribly awkward, just unwanted. And I had SWS on, not cops!

I'm going to try it by itself this am for teaching, because Lumina has been great for making me happing in the am, unless you think it would be okay with UN Focus?

This is what I'm hoping to use Topper for, to kind of switch gears for the day. I ordered it because it could go over other phero's, but now I'm scared. I hardly know what I'm doing now, mixing seems like more and more of a bad idea. These are my main questions 1. Considering the ingredients, is it safe to assume that I could experiment with putting it on top of Lumina, Sexpionage, Open Windows, and/or Treasured Hearts and at least not expect them to cancel each other out? 2. Would putting Topper on top of Blatant Invitation make it similar to Bang? I realize that everyone is different and of course amounts and ratios matter, but I've had great results with Bang laced scents but now have UN versions of Topper and BI. 3. Has anyone layered Topper over SWS?

Shit, okay, I have a question. What if someone makes 194 posts but only 3 of said posts had anything resembling valuable content? I'm asking for a friend.

On thursday nights I teach a yoga class called Rockasana, which is a year by year "Dari's opinion" best rock songs that one could play in yoga class. Now, I do own the studio, so I'm pretty sure "Girlfriend in a Coma" isn't generally considered yoga music, but fuck it. I won't fire me. Tonight was 1987 so I did add in Heart's Alone to wrap up all the Prince and INXS and Cure and Patti Smith and Depeche Mode and Siouxsie and whatnot. So I just re-listened to it for a scent comparison and I got nothing. No idea. All I get is "purple, round, smooth, & circular." Those are not scents! I understand the reference to lemon and cinnamon, though. The word mahogany comes to mind, but I have no idea what that smells like. I'll just keep making set lists, I'm glad you guys are in charge of the perfumes now. @johnsonlisa, I have 21 years now. I have no idea how that happened, that's a really long ass time as far as I'm concerned.

Honestly, I don't like this at all on me, from the vial or on my skin. It's probably the cranberry, I cannot handle apple or fig on me either. *(edit below) Almond also rubs me the wrong way, but not like I have to wash it off or anything, and I have had to wash off scents with heavy apple or fig notes. That's the best I can do as far as a review scent wise, sadly. If you love apple, fig, and almond, maybe you're the exact opposite as me, and maybe you'll love Totem. I dunno. (* My two year later edit- I now realize that I love fig and enjoy apple in scents and it was the almond that goes wonky on my skin. ) I do know that SWS is an amazing phero and I'm really glad that I bought my man an unscented phero. But I believe in this phero enough that I kept this sample in my car to refresh/put on top of the UN SWS I had on this afternoon/night because I had to go into the bank to deal with an "unfortunate and uncomfortable" situation, for lack of a better explanation. But there was enough potential for it to go wrong that I made my man wait in the car because if I needed to open a can of whoop ass, I didn't need to frighten him. As it turned out, I got multiple apologies and an extreme (and deserved) amount of ass kissing. Even a last little mumbled "I'm sorry X bank hasn't met your expectations lately," which was totally unnecessary because she's totally sweet and had nothing to do with her and they had gone above and beyond in making it right, including the required amount of graveling and then some. I was still "under the influence" of the SWS when I went to see a band at what used to be my favorite bar and restaurants, until the service got crappier and crappier and my favorite waitress quit. So someone near the hostess station chided me for being late, so I decided to tell head hostess that I hadn't even been offered a soda the last 9 times I'd been there. She was appalled. I wouldn't have told her but she actually is an acquaintance and I like her so I told her how I actually have to eat before I go there because I can't even get a fucking soda there anymore. It's not a cheap place, so if I'm there alone I would always spend $30-45 just on food and soda for myself and would always tip Julie 30% for my meal because when she would see me she would just bring me a diet coke without me needing to chase anyone down. If I was there with my kids it would always be $50 - $90 plus my 30%. So 10 visits of me being thirsty and hungry costs them $500 or so, and I'm late to see band because I need to eat before I go. For the record, I'm not dirty or smelly or loud or gross or rude, I don't let my kids run wild, I'm an adult. Anyway, I told Nika (the head hostess) because I'm tired of missing half the show, I like the taste of diet coke, and I like several of their dishes and I'm awfully found of desserts, especially their bananas foster. She said to tell me which waitresses have been ignoring me, I told her that I wanted to try my luck in getting a soda without her help and i'd report back. I stressed to Nika that I did not want her to say anything to anyone because I wanted to see what would happen that night. I did ask a server as he ran by, but I was closer to the restaurant side (the band is in the middle), and he did say yes but never came back. For the record, a private dining area there could cost $3000- $12000, and I have no idea where he was actually going, so I didn't take that personally. But it didn't help my thirst situation. So, I went back to the server station behind the front of the house soundboard and asked a male waiter that I never saw before if I could please get a soda. He said of course, "just meet me over by the place at the bar where the servers order drinks." Now, I've never gotten a free drink here before. Ever. It's not that kind of place. I waved my man down, told him I needed some $ (wasn't going to run a card for a soda) and he asked me and waiter for a ginger beer. He said, "Oh, I'd have to have you pay for that, they won't give me that for free," and then the bartender said "Oh no, it's cool," and waved us away. Um....? My man does work sound there occasionally but they pay like crap and only give them a discount on food and not even free drinks while working. Nothing comes for free there. I did run by Nika to show her my lovely beverage as I was very pleased. The waiter's name was Jay and I now have a new waiter and I'm so happy because that's the thing about being in a bar/restaurant, it reminds me of eating and drinking. In case I now sound like a person who's always complaining or running to go tell mom or demanding special treatment, I'm not. I once actually had a waitress whom i was only friendly with because she was a waitress there pick up my soda and put her drugs in her mouth and take them WITH MY SODA, USING MY STRAW, and I didn't even complain about that. (Nor did I touch the soda again.) Anywho, SWS works. If you need proper service, elaborate apologies from an entire bank branch, or just a fucking soda. I'm still looking for the proper SWS pheroma for me. But some SWS, any SWS, will always be in my arsenal! I want my man to keep his whole UN SWS for himself so I'm going to keep trying them all.

I'm going to look into a lot of these movies I've never seen, including "Somewhere in Time." Wrinkle in Time was my favorite book, too! I had a leather bound cover, with maybe 4 other books, including Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe, but can't remember any of the other titles. I did buy my son a W in Time hardcover graphic novel before he was reading chapter books because I couldn't wait. It's being made into a movie now, I saw a teaser for it when I took my daughter to see Coco.

Oh dear. This will not stand. Something must be done to remedy this disturbing revelation. If there was a type of synesthesia (sensory perceptions colliding, like words being perceived as having colors), I would really like to know the smells of certain bass lines and guitar solos.

It's amazing. Rush was one of the first harder rock bands my juvenile self absorbed. Tell me there's a Magic Man PE out there somewhere? Heart's Little Queen was the first album I ever bought with my own dollars, quarters, and dimes.

If I had anything resembling impulse control, I'd say they sound lovely and leave it at that, or maybe grab my man a bottle of Neal's Rush. But since I'm still me, I have to add, it seems like it would be an all around sexy vanilla for not only a modern day warrior but also for the working man.

Thank you Luna! That Will definitely be on my next order!

I need this! Is this something I can currently get in my next order or am I doomed to hunt? I'm also curious if anything with heavy amber as the main note comes to mind for anyone.

I appreciate the "yer time is running out, bub." I was just thinking about watching 12 Monkeys one more time earlier this week. It's truly one of the best time travel movies ever made. I could watch it every year for the next 40 years and still get muddled.

Damn. This thread was hard to find, but I wanted to add tonight's funny BBM reaction- I was in the bedroom and putting on a healthy dose of BBM over some Balm Bomb after a shower. My man turned off the basketball game and ran in the bedroom with a big smile on his face, "I smell butter. Is it bedtime?"

I was kidding about the stinky hippie thing. I believe the original stinky comments trace back to patchouli, and patchouli sure doesn't bother me! Some of my favorite people are stinky/not stinky hippies. I'm on the edge of Berkeley and spend a lot of time in Marin where the hippies live in gazillion dollar houses and do all kinds of kooky things, but they are absolutely positively NOT dirty. I was born in 1969 and I imagine I will end up with this one and a few FB's of the others. They all look amazing, my only raised eyebrow was at the blue camomile. I have the tiniest bottle of German blue camomile EO for emergency medicinal purposes only. I am intrigued, but also concerned, it is not a scent I appreciate in any way. I can't wait to see how you made that work Mara! Very much looking forward to hearing all the reviews while taking a short break from obsessively tracking USPS shipping numbers! I just got a package from LPMP this am so I imagine I'll have plenty to do the next few days.

Thank you Stacy! My beloved mail carrier delivered a ton of goodies for me today, and of course I want to throw them all on at once, so I appreciate your cautionary tale. I'm wearing Focus Potion, so obviously I need to figure it out on it's on and then explore if Topper over it would be okay. (I'm looking for perfect teaching blend/sweet spot.) It makes so much sense to write everything down, including dosage. It may have be hormonal but my headache never left me yesterday, I may have possibly OD'd on something. (Lumina in early am, TH in late late afternoon/early evening.) So much research to do! Thanks for your response, very much appreciate it.

This scent reminds me of when I was young and had the free time to read lots of Tarot card and occult books and hang out in metaphysical book stores. They were my big research/study years. Now if I go into a metaphysical store I get what I need, drive home, prep whatever I'm concocting, and then burn/bury/whatever and move on. There is no research or lingering, I'm all business now. Eve of Darkness smells like the luxury of lingering in the mysteries of metaphysical and occult research. It's a lovely place to visit, but like I said, I'm all business in that regard now. I could never date a man who smelled like this all the time, he most likely takes himself way too seriously and considers himself a "Wizard." I can also assume he has a large collection of black cloaks to wear non-ironically and also braids things into his beard. i might dump it into a wax and put it on the wax burner though. We are dealing with a Full moon/SuperMoon in Gemini AND Mercury has just turned retrograde. I could perhaps manage a few card readings between obtaining groceries and washing laundry. Maybe I'll commit to ONLY washing black clothes.

StacyK , you said "I can't do enone blends with Topper. But, that's me." If you have a moment, can you expand on that? I'm expecting a bottle of Topper this week and it's my understanding I can use it with everything, but I'm curious what doesn't work for you so I know what to look for. Thanks!