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HA, came here to describe latest experience which I underwent For Science, and it was similar ... Perhaps if LFM is the Carpet Swan phero, Gotcha can be called the koala-huggy-bear phero. I wore Steamy Bikini last night to drinks with my friend and his friend. (But I'm reviewing here instead of there because it's mainly about the phero.) I've met the FOF a few times before - he is very reserved both verbally and physically, and on past occasions he has always he very much hung back, including literally. I got the impression he was a little by my much-more-extrovertedness. Anyway last night by the time he was halfway into his first cocktail he had clasped himself around me like this: and stayed that way until we parted several hours later, petting my hair, running his fingertips absent-mindedly along my forearms, rubbing my back, etc. He was also talking my face off, from two inches away. Actually, cooing or purring might be more accurate. Our mutual friend was just staring at him dumbfounded and kept trailing off while talking Obviously the A-nol / booze combo freaking clobbered him in particular but the overall Gotcha effect of wet-eyed lip-trembling puppy love was in full force.

I tested this blind. I LOVE wisteria but didn't recognize it - in this blend it read on me like a very straightforward rose. It brought Love Blossom to mind. Wet, it was not dirty at ALL, and I amp civet madly. As it dried down the floral backed way off, and the civet and musk must have been to thank for making the whole thing more deep and sultry. After it dried I couldn't have named a single note - it felt well aged already, that well melded. I actually got a mink-coat kind of feeling from it. Very purry and va va voom. it's raven-haired, crimson-lipped vixenish... : black cat swishing tail emoticon :

This is for the phero not the heavenly scented version. Yet another Cougar rave...I have a spray of it, LP silver-flavored. The bottle is 95% air (SOB, the last of my LP silver in any form) and it is OLD, like years old, but was as wallopingly effective as ever. Gave myself a big spritz to crown before a work meeting with a quite senior and powerful woman who, in past encounters, always gave me the impression she was gritting her teeth and tolerating me while wishing she was talking to someone more important. She was a bad listener and talked over me a lot. I made sure to say hello while waving the top of my head in her general direction, which probably looked as weird as it sounds, but -- she still talked over me, but WAY less than in the past, and couldn't stop complimenting me (OMG I LOVE THAT COLOR ON YOU! OMG I LOVE THAT RING! OMG YOUR HAIR LOOKS GREAT!) which she'd never done before, and offered to do WAY more for me than I had expected - WAY more than her function requires her to do, and in fact sort of against her own interest. we'll see if she actually follows through, but in any case what / that she offered was fairly extreme. Score another win for La Cougarrrrr

This is one of those scents that smells VERY different in the bottle vs wet vs drydown. Sniffing from the bottle I thought "oh dear" as there was some floral in there that I always associate with air freshener and cleaning products. I rolled it on and thought "Irish spring" (soap) which was unexpected and not necessarily something I'm keen to smell like. But then within seconds on the skin it bursts into a symphony. The tea and the honey immediately bloom and give an impression of colorful translucent blown glass. In fact if anything it's honey and tea that are just laced with very bright multicolored wildflower essence rather than the other way around. The flower aspect really is incredibly vivid though for me not so much because it smells like any particular flowers, but because the smell "feels" like the variety of *colors* in a wildflower field. I once trespassed across some meadows in the Swiss alps on an extremely gorgeous day when the grass was fiercely almost neon green and choked with a riotous crayola-64 array of flowers, and there were moments I actually felt myself pleasantly almost slipping out of my mind because it was too beautiful to bear. The floral part of this smells NOT like those flowers smelled - those flowers didn't throw a lot - but the way they LOOKED. It's like....a cocktail of port jolie over ice with a few dashes of floral syrup. It's intense.

Thank you for your generosity as always !!

A rudely belated thank you to Mara for the generous, adorable Betsy Apple gift bag!!!!!!!! It could not be cuter. I'm very excited to get all appley with the scrub for my next shower.

THANK YOU

Mara, another question about the slippery soap! Can it just be used like normal soap as well, not just for shaving?

This is so freaking awesome. We joke a lot here about gnawing our arms off but it is truly a challenge not to chew on the application point. From the description I expected something kind of light and sheer, but it's chewy and unexpectedly sexy. I was a teeny bit apprehensive about the berry sugars as berry can be plasticky on me but it just reads as more depth to the apple and the pinkness. This would be HEAVEN in shower gel or shampoo, sigh. In terms of pheros it feels like Lace or OW to me. love love love

Hi, I requested a slippery soap in the sale thread, and just realized I didn't reserve it here. Sorry!

Oh I need bottles of Betsy Apple and tink summer sky please.

That is so lovely!!!! THANK YOU!

It sounds awesome....thank you:))

Mara, can you tell us about the slippery soap - smell, & lather texture?

MUST GET TO PARTY ONE DAY MUST HAVE BETSY APPLE....BOTTLES?????

I love the coconut in this, but I think something about the sandalwood in combination with one or more of the other notes takes it a bit sideways on me - it feels like a question mark in a thought bubble - can't quite put finger on why. It's not any aspect of the sandalwood that I recognize as something that I often don't like about sandalwood, so that's why I think it's the combo with something else - probably the lotus as I'm not picking up any of that as itself. It seems almost indolic on me. Will give it a moment and revisit.

This is wearing very close on me too - maybe my skin is dry. Wet, my nose read the cherry as almond, very intensely, like eating a very almondy butter cake frosted with a 1-inch thick layer of very fresh almond butter. After it started drying down, it became more recognizable as cherry and it reminded me of Ravenwing's white forest cake quite a lot. As quiet as it is on me, it covers the cops completely, from the first moment. It feels summery and celebratory to me. Will enjoy having another CAKE! cops option!!

It IS exactly that!!!! The cinnamon and carnation are so seamlessly integrated that they seem like one single thing, probably a flower, that exists in nature the cinnamon is NOT of the "punch in face" kind at all - just very thoroughly part of the carnation. On me the anise is not recognizable as itself but is lending a roundness and sweetness to the cinna-carnation flower The coconut cream is obviously there at the beginning and reads almost like a vanilla ice cream, and also amplifies the sweetness of the CC flower; in drydown it becomes more recognizably frosting-coconutty and about equally prominent as the CC flower. This is one of those LPs that feels well and perfectly aged already upon release. The real surprise is how close-wearing and subtle it is - from the notes you might expect it to be more obvious and insistent than it is. I have it on just one arm now but look forward to many big luxuriant slathers to come.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this - couldn't get my mind around this combo of notes. But tried it first from the sampler due to these intriguing reviews. It morphs a bit. Wet i thought it was too herbaceous for me (I prefer my lavender to be bakery), and it was bright and seemed almost fizzy - I thought of 7up! - but quickly it morphed and reminded me powerfully of my Flora Royale, though a little more powdery. The only note they have in common is amber, so I wonder if it's the same or a similar kind. It got sweeter and sweeter with wear, and I couldn't keep my nose out of the application spot. In this phase it felt dark-green and lavendery and powdery. I thought sadly how I could picture Prince absolutely loving this. It also seemed to have an almost phero-ish effect of making people friendly and "we're all in this together."

Mmmmm! This morphs delightfully from bottle through drydown. It's a rollicking journey. In the bottle I smelled nothing but banana Runts and I admit I thought "oh dear" as I don't like those but this is one of those that smells completely different on. I did an extravagant slather. Wet, I got the recognizable compromising positions (if I had to look for differences, I'd say the patch seemed a bit lighter and more peppery), but also a mashed, BRIGHT yellow, spotlessly perfectly ripe banana, separate from the compromising positions - not swirled together but next to it and like holding hands of course this may have been because I KNOW compromising positions- someone who didn't, probably wouldn't perceive it as distinct that way. After an hour or so the banana receded but kept shining a waning bright creamy yellow light over everything. At this stage, without being told, I think most people wouldn't pick up the banana as itself. The patch also started backing off at this point, so it started turning into a very creamy, lightly spiced pudding with some sunny fruitiness. Later into drydown now (not quite 3 hours after applying), it's very slightly banana tinted, marshmallow pudding. The patch is giving it depth without being recognizable as itself. It's inexplicably cheerful. It's hot and humid here so I think it morphed and burned off faster than normal. This is so summery to me - it's a banana slice-topped vanilla ice cream cone at the state fair. Gonna slather the crap out of it all summer. Thank you for the nom Mara as always!! - and for the delightful surprise extras!!

:D I have somewhat recovered and my head is back to normal size, thank you

Today's episode of WATCH WHERE YOU POINT THAT THING is brought to you by G2. I had a very limited amount of time to go over a whole bunch of things with a woman I don't know well. So I put on a bit of G2. I know from past experience that I only need microscopic amounts for self-effects and effects on others. Well, for no good reason, I got cocky and put on a thin smear that was the size of this letter --> o , instead of the "period at the end of this sentence" amount that I damn well knew was adequate. The woman was warm and open - definitely more so than I've seen in the past, as she's quite reserved. That is to say, when she was able to get a word in edgewise. I poured out all my guts, scraped for more, and turned myself inside out. I told her everything I have ever heard, learned, or speculated about since birth. I told her every secret I have ever had. I COULD NOT STOP TALKING. I talk fast normally but I was talking so fast I must have seemed insane or coked out of my mind. I could feel myself straining to bring it under control, and it felt like tying a rubber eraser to the back of a runaway train and expecting that to slow it down. Nonetheless fortunately the positive effects of G2 did not make her run away screaming and calling 911. So for any fellow lightweights out there, you've been warned. ETA I just went back and read my previous reviews out of curiosity re my recollection of how much to use. Besides the amount, my fatal error this time appears to have been that I put it on relatively close to my face. Apparently for me it's key to put it as far away from my face as possible. Perhaps I shall start smearing it directly onto my targets Also forgot to mention that it gave me that "my tongue slightly too large for my mouth" feeling (ETA: I always thought this was because of TH-DOC, but looking back I now see that it is probably DHEAS, being the only common ingredient in the things that do this to me) and the feeling that "my head is a slowly inflating balloon that might float away, but that's ok." ETA It's been about 90 minutes since I put it on and I have now moved on to "please just let me sleep for the next 35 hours" phase. I feel like the youtube video of that kid who took the new "Holy fucking shit" drug, in the 21 Jump Street remake

I love me that Bun. Waiting for sampler impatiently even though I just ordered it like ten minutes ago

how funny, I've been percolating a coconut cougar PE! but the scented version - coco and grapefruit