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Fresh on the skin this starts out SO very deliciously - round and full and deep and sensual. After about a half hour the musk takes over a little too aggressively and the whole thing takes a soapy turn but I think letting it sit for a few weeks will solve that. I imagine this will age beautifully. For now I've layered with a small scribble of Moondust Cocoa - makes it all mega mellow and creamy, almost nutty. Love.

Yes!! I finally did on Thursday afternoon. It was farcical all that occurred and I had to bare my teeth on more than one occasion to make it all happen, but I've been happily in a cloud of scent since so I consider it forgiven. I blame (mostly...) Mercury Rx. BTW did you get my 2 emails? No rush - I have just been noticing those are getting lost too... 🙄

Omg, is Rocket Fuel gone??? I know there's no more SS4W but is the scent going to be coming back?? Please please please??? 😰😰😰

Lord, I really really love this one. It makes me feel so slinky and sexy and powerful and mysterious. I'm so curious what it was like when it was first brewed because to my nose this feels like it's at its prime! Cohesive and full of depth. The vibe to me is elegance with an edge - rich and luxurious, smooth black velvet and a glass of champagne, stealing off to make out and drive around with the top down, showing back up an hour later full of secrets, full of [tales] of mystery, mwahahaha. I wouldn't be opposed to a man wearing this but to me it feels sexier on a woman with that bit of darkness. Maybe I'll try it on Husband if I'm feeling generous... I have a super fancy dinner Friday night and I think I know just what I'll wear! Paired with some Leather and good dose cops of course.

I just had to come in here and vent. I have a big shipment that was slated to arrive yesterday Priority Mail, so you know I was bursting with excitement!!! 11:23 am the tracking info said out for delivery. I damn well planned to stay at home till it arrived so I could sign for it and spend my Saturday rolling around in heavenly bliss. Long story short, it never arrived. 1:23 am I get an alert in big angry red letters saying "Delivery Date Unknown" and "Awaiting Delivery Scan". I know I shouldn't panic but I'm panicked. Of course I can't get a hold of anyone on a Sunday, but Google tells me Priority Mail still gets delivered on Sundays, so I have every digit crossed and hoping it's not lost and arrives safely to me today. But I'm going crazy!!! Aaaaaah!!!!!!! Did the Mercury Retrograde gods filch my precious goods???? AAAAHHHHH!!!!! ETA: 8:30 pm and still nothing. I'm melting.....😫 ETA: It's now 6:30 pm Monday and still nothing - I'm on hold with USPS and hold time says greater than 1 hour. Lord please grant me patience... and pray that they find my package!!!

Yeah, the weepies are never fun, but at least testing out all these molecules is!! 😁It's so interesting how my perceptions and selfies and even hits have evolved over the time I've been experimenting. I've been using pheros off and on for over 15 years but it hasn't really been until the last several years that I've gotten more into the science bit... so enlightening and exciting!

UUUMMMMMM!!! I've had a trial of Un Dom for a while but never really got around to road testing it since I'm such a big fan of Leather. This past weekend I gave it a go, mostly to temper some Cuddle Bunny because I was worried about the est and WOOOOOW. Not only did I get awesome selfies (felt really grounded, sexy, calm, and content), my man absolutely cannot get enough of me in this one, I would say even more so on it's own than with CB which surprised me - he was so reverent and awed and weepy with love, could not stop grabbing and rubbing and telling me how beautiful and sexy I am, how lucky and grateful he is to have me, and he spent the better part of the weekend fawning and cooking and taking care of me, all of which definitely kicked things up several notches at bedtime... ? He kept saying, "You're the boss, you're in charge, you're my queen, anything for you." Okkkk!!??? Needless to say a full bottle is going in my next order. I want to bathe in this. Drink it, even. Looking forward trying scented Dominance too. I could get used to this!!

Thanks, NuTrix! Just tried Gossamer Threads w/ Cuddle Bunny yesterday and happy to report everything went swimmingly! Bae looooved the scent and was buried in my neck all morning, and I felt happy and upbeat. After a couple hours I refreshed with an added a drop of Dom for funsies and WOW. Winning combo! Now I've got to give Lace a try... ?❤❤❤

You know, originally I thought it was the EST, but after further analysis I'm now realizing I think it's b-nol in a blend that gets me particularly weepy, angry, and emotional. I mean Leather and I are bestest buds but Perfect Match? LFN/LFM? Gotcha? Forget about it. Gushtown Express. Like instantly. The tiniest dab of LFN makes me catatonic and depressive in 3 minutes flat. Every time I put on Perfect Match I start a massive fight with boo - pretty contradictory to the intended results. Which sends me down a rabbit hole of, what have I been repressing that decides to leak out when b-nol is in the picture??? I consider myself a pretty open person but looks like this molecule has something else to say about it. Or I'm so open already the b-nol pushes me over the edge?? These are questions for my therapist of course, but it's good to hone in even more deeply on what molecules love me, and a relief on my wallet knowing I don't have to collect 'em all. ? So I will be saying goodbye to my TMI and BAM and LFN and Empathy Potion. And I had been frightened of the EST but perhaps it's time to try Cuddle Bunny after all...

Thank you, Luna! Guess I'll just have to try both! ?

WOW. I am so in love with this. I don't know what I envisioned, but it is so much more than the sum of its parts. It's absolutely delicious without being overly sweet or foody. Just perfectly light and fluffy and dare I say refreshing? So fitting for the summer storms and horrifying sauna of humidity - I want to smell lickable but don't want to wear anything that could be construed as sticky - this is just lovely. Can anyone enlighten me on how this compares with Fairy Cake Sweet Pea?

I had the same thought!! Dukhan sounds incredible. I'm certain I will love it.

Yay yay yay!!! I'm so excited!!

Indeed - the full spectrum of feeling. The pleasure, the pain!!!! Fine lines all around!

OMG EGG. EGG!!! Now that I know your pleasures, how can I bear the thought of living without you???

Really digging this. I know there's no spice in here but I'm getting spice - something like clove and orange peel? Dunno what's causing that (maybe the way the smoke is playing with the pumpkin), and normally accords like that make me nauseous, but this just feels very yummy and comforting. It's rainy and grey and a bit chilly here today - this is the perfect shroud while I burn some incense and cozy up by the window. I get a lot of walnut and creamy smoke at first which I absolutely ADORE - kind of wish it would stay there, but the dry down is also pretty darn delightful. It gets louder and throws more the longer I have it on. I smell the cops a LOT in this, but I kinda like that little bit of funk. Wish I had snagged a FB - I can anticipate really craving this in the fall.

I feel like I'm constantly up in this thread but seriously, I cannot extol the virtues of this enough. It is flat out insane and dangerous how effective this is both with my man and with the selfies it gives me, not to mention how utterly and entirely delectable the scent is. Anytime I wear this I'm a maniac with my arm glued to my face, and once I get a whiff, well... mama gotta find some playtime stat. And yes, the O's are better. I don't get nearly the same effect with UN Sexpionage either - it's all about the blend. I'm almost all the way through a full bottle, and that's saying a whole hell of a lot considering I own over 1,000 fragrances, I only wear it at home (because Sexpionage), and I've had the bottle less than 2 months. I have never gone through a scent faster than this! I simply cannot get enough! Properly addicted.

Do you guys remember Petite Nate? When I was a kid I had the sparkly skin "lotion" that was more just like a thin gel, and it was my prized possession (I wasted no time starting my scent obsession youuuuunng, I had the Tinkerbelle perfume too, and filched my mother's tiny collectible Yves Rocher bottles on the regular). On my skin this smells exactly like Petite Nate. I'm frankly amazed I even remembered the name of it, but one sniff of this shuttled me right off to the corner of my brain that stores my toddling-around memories, feeling so sophisticated and chic slathering the "lotion" on after a summertime bath, lounging in the backyard with my parents eating Flintstones Push-Ups, picking mulberries, trying to convince my grandma to swim with me in the pool, catching fireflies in a jar. The smell and feeling of this makes me so so so so so nostalgic and happy. I don't even know if I'll be able to wear this on the regular simply because it's so evocative, I'd just spend the whole day smelling myself and staring off into space in a daze of time travel. But for the coming hot lazy evenings of summer, those nights when I just want wine, the sunset, and a long fluffy mind trip, this is going to be the perfect treat. Thank you, Mara, for taking me back to some of the happiest memories of my life.

This. Is. Awesome. I'll have to come back and do a proper review later on, but I just put this on along with OCCO Black for the evening and have enveloped myself in a cloud of divine lusciousness and HAD TO TELL SOMEONE!! I'm in love with myself. Seriously LPMP should be a required resource for any self-love program. I want to seduce myself.

Thanks, girl! This one is dangerous and distracting - I have so many beauties to sniff through from the sampler but it's been sweater weather here for the last few days and all I want to wear is this layered with OCCO Black and slink around in dark corners looking for a makeout. I'm a monster and I can't be stopped...

Thanks Halo, I will definitely give this another - measured - go under better circumstances! From all these great reviews, I'm not giving up that easy...

My period was a surprising few days early this month and not knowing that, I made the mistake last weekend of wearing this a few days before. Wow, was that a big mistake. By now I know Est and I don't get along but I was enjoying the after effects of a Sexpionage night and feeling cocky had a Pherotine vial I hadn't tested yet and thought, what the hell, maybe the other elements will balance it all out, -none and I get along pretty great. Being an UN, it's entirely possible I OD'd on the dosage too, not to mention the raging hormones that create a stampede of havoc in my body when I'm PMSing, but needless to say it was not a restful Sunday. I was zonked out all during brunch with the in-laws, and then my man wanted to take a jaunt around town for Earth day, and that mix of sun and champagne and PMS and LFN somehow turned into a weeping existential meltdown. Whoopsie. Now that I think of it, the one time I wore LFM in Sensual Harmony, I felt wonky too. I got great hits that day, but I felt off and cranky and sad. Maybe I'm using too much. Or maybe I just oughta lay off these two and stick to my dom blends?

Oh dear, I think this one is too sweet for me. I def get the syrup, it's more or less all syrup on me. Makes me feel as if I've eaten 4 stacks of pancakes naked, and one of those stacks I rubbed on my body. I felt sticky and full, had to wash it off. On the other hand, if ever I'm trying to curb a craving for pancakes I know what to reach for!

Yay! Finally a honey I can wear!!! Sugared Honeycomb and Pherogirl go all stabby powder on me. Even LAM original is too much for my skin. But this! Deep and round and heavy like the weight of a water balloon about to pop. 12 hours later it's still going relatively strong, softened into a gorgeous fleshy sweaty-sweet skin scent. I am learning I like stank. I wish I could have tried the infamous Jouir De!!! Looking forward to experimenting with different layers with this - aaand of course test driving on the husband.

Thank you, Mara!