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Can I just say, "WOW"? He pounced. Man oh man, did he POUNCE! Not only did he pounce, he dropped his controller in the middle of playing a BRAND NEW VIDEO GAME in order to make the pouncing! Shocked the hell outta me. WOW. Now *that's* power. hehe... If my browser wasn't so crappy, there would be the BIGGEST, wiggly-browed happy face right smack where this puny one is: :-)

Heehee! That whole post made me laugh out loud! I'd imagine that eventually I'll get to the point where I prefer to use the unscented, for exactly the same reasons. But still being a noob, I have to go the goof-proof way for now. SO.MUCH.DRAMA. hee! so funny...

Thanks Miss DC! So sweet! I keep forgetting about the UN pheros! My original thought was to try using mostly unscented pheros after a while, (after I've tried them in scented stuff), 'cause I like the idea of being able to switch up pheros & perfumes according to what I want to wear every day. But I think the dry-down time puts me off the idea. Right now I have loads of time to play around with this stuff, but come summer, I'll have no time to fiddle around with dry-down. But that idea still appeals to me. Hrm... Maybe that is the way to go?

Thanks Luna - those two sound like they're right up my alley, too. Yum!

Raq On, I can totally fake myself out about the house being clean. Does this scent come in wax melts? 'Cause I'd totally buy them if it did. Ha! I'd never have to clean again. (Don't I wish...) I used to have a roommate who had OCD, and one of his 'things' was smells. Everything couldn't just *be* clean, it had to smell clean, too, so he rubbed dryer sheets all over everything - including me, if I happened to be sitting on the sofa at the time. Or lying on the floor. That's the only downer about CB '09: it gives me flashbacks of Bounce-sheet 'massages'!

Wow! There was a lot of activity here while I was at work! Halo - so far, of the samples I ordered and the little sniffy vials Mara sent, the only ones my boyfriend hasn't liked are Passion in Pink and Carolyn's Man Nip which didn't really like me anyway. He's particularly fond of Garland and Lace, which is awesome, because I love that one too, and can see myself wearing it at home quite a lot. Miss DC - I have that same boyfriend issue. After we break up, they adore me. I was the best girlfriend they ever had, they were crazy to let me go, blahdiblahblah... Hrmm.... Luna - I agree that it's nice to have all kinds of perfumes for all kinds of situations. And in the end, because my boyfriend is not all that keen on PiP, I'll probably save it just for me. He's out jamming 2 or 3 nights a week anyway, so it's not like I won't have time to appreciate it. I can't actually believe how greedy I am about wanting all of these different scents, though! I've been hoarding money from my tips, sort of syphoning off the top, in order to pay for more. I think my next order is going to be disgustingly gigantic. But honestly, I've spent the 8 years I've been with this guy going without stuff that I want because he needs a new guitar, or new golf clubs or new work clothes or new fill-in-the-blank, and we didn't have a lot of money between us. And I never really minded 'cause all I need to keep myself entertained is a pen and some paper. But now that our finances are in better shape, I've been going a bit crazy buying nice things for myself - expensive skin care products and lovely perfumes etc... I'm making up for 8 years of lost purchases! Lol! And he doesn't seem to mind, so, all the power to me! hee hee. Raq On - I hope MRF smells yummy on me. Haven't tried it yet. You still wear it, though, don't you? I think I remember reading that in one of the threads. It smells amazing in the vial. I hope it loves me. Invi - I have a similar issue with bees. When I was about 4 I was playing in an old train yard where someone had dumped a mattress. I, being the clever child I was, jumped on it and disturbed a bee hive that was inside. I got stung all over my body, and ran crying to my Grandmother's house where I insisted she put band-aids on every place it hurt! The weird thing about this memory is that it was extremely traumatic for me, yet no one else in my family seems to remember it. Not my Gramma, not my uncles who were with me at the time, and not my mother. I remember it vividly. And then when I was in high school, I was on the back of my boyfriend's motorcycle, and a bee got stuck between my bare arm and my boyfriend's leather jacket. Of course it stung me, and then the body of the bee flew away, but the stinger and sack were still attached, and my boyfriend was going so fast that he didn't realize anything was wrong. I was squeezing him between my arms, and yelling at him to slow down, but he couldn't hear me, so he just kept going. I had that stupid stinger in my arm for about ten minutes. I still have a mark from it. But I forgave the bees, 'cause they make my favourite food. My boyfriend and I had a great conversation about these perfumes last night, after he came home to do the 'second sniffing' of Passion in Pink. He's quite happy that I don't wear commercial perfumes because the alcohol in them makes them all smell similar - which is exactly why I don't like wearing them. I don't want to smell like everyone else. Plus, I think it was Raq On who said something along the lines of them all smelling like Windex, which they sort of do to me, too. He said he loved how different they all are, and that they seem to hug me, meaning that they're not assaultive. (ETA, is 'assaultive' even a word?). He also likes that he can still kiss my neck while I'm wearing these perfumes, because he's not getting a mouthful of alcohol. And I'm pretty happy about that, too. :-) I always feel the need to apologize after I post these monster-sized posts. I must look like such a blabbermouth. Honestly, I do not talk this much in 'real life'. Really I don't! ETA a question about the phero. I love the phero in Pip, and I would love to use it with the boyfriend, too, so how would I go about choosing an appropriate scent? Get a few samples & let him sniff away, then choose the one we both like the best? I want one that's congruent with the phero. I was thinking Lovers in the Clovers or something along that line. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Invi - yes, he said hospital. I know! I couldn't believe it either. I have an aversion to the smell of vetiver essential oil. It makes me anxious for some reason, when I smell it on its own, and sometimes when it's in a blend, it will rip through every other note, and it's almost all I can smell. Funny thing is that I don't dislike the smell, it just causes anxiety. Did you get stung by the wasp? Or did you get away? Wasps give me the heebie jeebies. My parents bought a really old cottage on a river just south of Sudbury, and when they tore the awful inside panelling down while renovating, they discovered nests between the studs. A lot of nests. It was like some spooky horror film! No wonder you don't like honeysuckle. Wasps and hornets kind of remind me of T1000 (Terminator 2). When the beau came home, he said it smelled better. Maybe he didn't like it because it was freshly applied? I dunno. After a while I started to smell a little like a caramel popcorn ball! Or pink Cracker Jacks. Anyway, I like it. I'm still thinking of marrying it.

I'm almost inclined to say potato, pot-o-to! Lol! Not long ago I had a diabetic cat called Moody. He was my most precious little buddy. I still swoon when I think of his l'il orange & white face! Ahem... anyway, I had to test his blood sugar before each of his meals so that I could administer the proper amount of insulin afterwards, and he had to have his meals spaced at certain intervals. Now of course he hated me poking his ear with a lancet three times a day, but he grew, (in a remarkably short time), to realize that he wouldn't be fed unless I poked his ear. Soon, whenever he was hungry, I'd find him sitting in front of the box I kept his glucometer in, waiting patiently, and hoping I'd get the hint. I'd imagine this perfume thing would be something like that.

The label alone makes me happy, not even counting the 'happifying' nature of the phero and the pinkness of the perfume. I likey!

I will definitely be wearing this around the house when he's not here. I don't know what it is but this pink really agrees with me. And so does the chihuahua on the label! :-)

Hi Luna, I might try it, just to see what happens. He said he's gonna take another sniff when he gets home, after it's mellowed a bit. He smelled it right after I put it on, so it may have been a bit sharp for his nose. Kind of funny though - he always says that no matter what, even if I'm not wearing perfume, I smell like flowers. I find it ironic that once I'm actually *wearing* flowers, he doesn't like it! Go figure... I would definitely wear this out - with my girlfriends, my mom etc... I find the scent itself so comforting, I want to be able to wear it at home. That's why I was asking. I love it so much, in fact, that if I wore it out of the house, I really might just run away with it! Salted caramel and roses? Come on now!

My boyfriend thinks Passion in Pink smells like the hospital! In other words, he really doesn't like it. Stupid boy noses... Anyway, I LOVE this scent, and I plan to wear it A LOT. Because I think it loves me, too. In fact, I think it's IN love with me. If I were to wear this around him, and then used cops to initiate a little 'wink, wink, nudge, nudge', is it possible that he would come to identify this freaking yummy smell with good things, and learn to love it? I don't know about the phero aspect of Heart and Soul yet, but I fell so hard for this perfume, I'd consider running away with it...

I've tried Cuddle Bunny 2009 three days in a row now. The first night I tried it, I wound up sitting at home, alone, and other than two of my cats, Sunny and Nuts, who didn't want to get off me, or be far from me, there was no one to appreciate how great I smelled. I used a pretty light hand the first night. Just a few dabs in what are quickly becoming the usual spots: crook of elbows, sides of throat, cleavage to belly button & a little on the backs of my hands. Tried it again yesterday, wearing a little more than the night before, and I still smelled great, but still no reaction whatsoever from the boyfriend. Am wearing it right now, heavier even than yesterday, and the only reaction I got from the boyfriend was a great big smile when I shoved his face into my cleavage and made him huff. I can say with almost absolute certainty that the smile was probably more boob-related than scent, although he is a fabric-softener freak, so there might have been a little extra oomph in the smile because I smell like a laundry additive. I was hoping for a little more than smile, (a "hey, can I refill your coffee, Sweets?" might have been nice, lol), but he wound up on a music-band rampage: "Blah blah blah guitar! Blah blah blah jamming!" This is not unusual for him though - he can bitch and moan for hours about the crumminess of his jam space, and anything concerning music, his band, instruments. So I can only assume this is not affecting him in the least, except that he likes the laundry smell, and my breasts. (Well, I guess that's something!). I, however, smell like I took a bath in fabric softener, and I love it. With this perfume I can almost fool myself into believing my whole apartment is clean and tidy! This is another scent that doesn't seem to morph on me much, if at all. I put it on and smell like laundry, and I smell like laundry until I take it off again. Toward the end there is a soft, powdery scent, but by and large, it still smells like the original application, only weaker. These LP scents really have great staying power on me, and don't seem to change much from the moment I apply to the time I wash them off. The scents are all a little sharper when they're first applied, but as soon as they're dry, they're just there, smelling awesome. I don't seem to get the usual top and middle notes dissipating first, only to be left with the lingering base note. When they fade on me, they seem to fade as a whole, which is unusual, but nice. I doubt all of them will behave this way, but it's nice to know that at least some do. I love this perfume. I really do. I love that laundry-fresh scent, and I'm not opposed to dousing myself with it if that's what's required to get the boyfriend's attention. Nor do I think he will mind, since he routinely uses half a bottle of Snuggle in every load of laundry.

RaqOn, what about trying the silicone base? Or is that just to prolong a scent? I was just thinking that if you like the perfume, it might be worth looking into. And it might be helpful in other situations, too.

Thanks Mara. Hmmm... Maybe I will try to find a substitute for my 'crampy' blend. I'd really love to smell Cougar Potion the way it was intended. But I suppose for the moment I'm happy just to smell the amber of it. It reminds me of my mom, (like sandalwood does, as well), so Cougar Potion is a really comforting and comfortable scent for me to wear - 'cause my mom ROCKS - even not being able to smell the grapefruit.

Thanks Luna. I want to smack my forehead now. Of course I recognize this job - my boyfriend is a musician! Duh! I obviously didn't know what it was called. Interesting job though. PM, thank you, too. I do use a lot of grapefruit. I have endometriosis, so my cramps are not necessarily confined to PMS, and for some reason, grapefruit really makes the blend I mentioned so relaxing. I think it's because it makes me feel so clean. Is it possible, I wonder, to reverse a desensitization to a scent? If I were to stop using grapefruit, would I be better able to appreciate it in blends sometime in the future? Or is it a permenant, (Iknow I spelled that incorrectly), thing? I do want to say thank you for making a grapefruit scent that the boyfriend doesn't mind. Not only does he not mind it, he *liked* it. So I'm pretty chuffed about that, 'cause I really love the Cougar Potion, even though most of what I get from it is Amber.

I certainly don't see a chemistry degree in my future. *sigh* Can I ask though, what exactly an audio engineer does? I don't know if I've ever heard that term before. Must be kind of cool to have "almost superhuman hearing". Terrible when he has headaches, though. I used to get migraines quite frequently, and as the migraine develops, it increases your senses by what seems like a kajillion times. Light is too bright, smells are noxious, and even hearing is enhanced in a horrible, horrible way - horrible because you can't really get away from the stabbing sounds. I hope Quince doesn't suffer migraines. I can't imagine how that would affect him. It must make regular tension headaches almost unbearable for him!

"Interestingly enough, back in the day, most of the "noses" were smokers (according to Luca Turin, anyway)." - Luna Really? So in other words, I *could* have some new career options! Lol! Mom will be delighted! Where does one go to school to become a nose?

Thanks JOC! I had fun trying a pheromone perfume in public for a change. I have a pretty decent sense of smell, but I was kind of worried I was losin' it last night, because I just *could not* smell any grapefruit on my skin. It's just so weird. I use grapefruit essential oil all the time, because it smells stellar in general, and because it smells great in some perfume blends, (also makes a great PMS kind of bath when mixed with a drop of ginger and some ylang ylang - this is my go-to blend for cramps). But with Cougar, I got nuthin'. I gotta say, it's pretty fun regularly baffling chefs by picking scents out of the air hours and hours after the ingredients were used. You should see their faces - they look at me like I'm crazy sometimes, but I'm rarely wrong. One chef I used to work for loved that I could do this, and often tested me by asking what they'd been preparing that day, before I arrived. It was like a game, and he was always shocked and a little freaked out when I nearly always came up with the right answer. I think he thought I was psychic or something. My mom is disappointed that I've been a smoker, because it tends to ruin one's sense of smell - she thinks I could have been a sommolier, (sp???), or a 'nose' for a perfume company if I'd never smoked! Lol! Thank you for the well-wishing for my friend. I was glad to be a friend to her last night. It was disconcerting in the extreme that she was the one talking about personal issues, as she is the one in our group of friends who is so unwaveringly solid that *we* all lean on her for support. I was glad to return the favour, and I really hope things work out for her, because she is one of those women who is just *the best* friend one could hope to have. Thank you.

I'm going to assume I've chosen the correct thread for my review of Cougar Potion, (the scented phero perfume, as opposed to the unscented Stone Cougar phero). K. So I have a standing Saturday night drinks 'date' with one of my closest girlfriends, and when I met her last night, I figured I'd give Cougar Potion a go while I was out in public, (as opposed to at home, camped out on my sofa like I've been for the rest of the week!). I applied it the way I've applied my other scented pheros - in the crooks of my elbows, in the warm spot on the front of my throat, a little 'scribble' on the back of my neck under my hair, and a strip from my cleavage down to my navel. And I think I put some on the back of my hands, too. I was concerned before, about the grapefruit in this blend, 'cause my boyfriend hates grapefruit, but I didn't get grapefruit at all, once it was out of the vial. All I got was very soft, very sheer, almost sweet amber. (I loved this; I love amber). I'm starting to think that I have very strange skin chemistry, because so far, all of the scents that I've tried consistently remain the way they smelled the moment I put them on. I mean, this didn't smell any different to me five hours later, or even the morning after. Of course, the scent fades overnight, but neither Cougar Potion nor any of the other delicious blends that I've tried so far have changed on my skin during the course of wear. Having said that, I did apply a little to the back of my hand in order to let my boyfriend have a sniff, (to see if he was bothered by any grapefruit smell he might get), and he said he got a little whiff of grapefruit, but that it quickly gave way, and basically all he could smell on me was the sweet amber scent. And even so, the little grapefruit he smelled, smelled good to him. So this is good news for me, because I really loved this scent, and would like to wear it without offending his tender sensibilities! I do wonder if there's something up with my skin though, because I really haven't experienced any morphing of scents the way other forum users seem to. I would say that it's my nose's issue, except that after using essential oils for years and years, I've developed an oddly good sense of smell. For instance, I've consistently confounded any chefs I've worked for over the year by pinpointing secret ingredients in foods they've made, simply by walking into the kitchen a few hours after the dish has already been made. I haz a gud sniffr. (This little talent comes in handy when I'm out with my mom, who's a baker, and wants to know what's in certain cakes and pastries we try, which she'd like to try duplicating at home). But still, I'm a bit baffled, 'cause good sniffer or not, I still did not experience any grapefruit on my skin, while my boyfriend, who has a, well, a *boy* nose, smelled it. Anyhoo... enough touting the talents of my schnazz... When I met my girlfriend, I actually began second-guessing which perfume/phero I'd chosen, because almost as soon as we had pints in our hands, she launched into a very sad story about what's going on between her and her husband of late. Now this girlfriend is one of the strongest women I know, and doesn't let much out in terms of personal or marital strife. But we had a three and a half hour conversation that was so deep and personal to her, that I actually wondered if I'd accidentally doused myself with Passion in Pink (with Heart & Soul) instead! But no, I hadn't. It was a very strange thing for her to do, I mean, this is *so* unlike her that it has me wondering if there's beta-androstenol in the Stone Cougar formulation. (I will go check when I've finished here). At any rate, we had a very good bonding session, which was great, because I truly think she needed a listening ear, and a friendly shoulder, and I was happy to provide both, because I adore her. I think I may actually have gotten a good amount of Cougar Potion on myself last night, because the first words out of her mouth when I met her were, 'Wow, you look freaking gorgeous tonight!'. I have lovely friends, don't I? And then later on in the evening, we had to go to a different bar which turned out to be crawling with young 'pups', it was like a path carved through the crowd for us. It was pretty impressive. Young guys who would normally just stand there looking stupid when I'm trying to get past them, instead of politely getting out of the way, were smiling and kind of tugging each other out of the way to let us through! That was kind of sweet. And then when we got to the actual bar, which was a few people deep, a couple of young fellas there gallantly stepped aside, (wearing big smiles, both of them), in order for my girlfriend and I to order drinks. So I think I got the right amount on, as it seemed to give us both a sort of 'star-like' bubble. Unexpected deep talking aside, this potion was really fun to wear, and I can see myself wearing this a lot in the future. I may even wear it grocery shopping, if it continues to manifest path-carving magic. No more bumping shopping carts! This one is an A+ in my book. Maybe even an A++, because if it can make grapefruit smell appealing to my boyfriend's nose, it must be freaking magickal.

Oh! Okay, I get it. I misunderstood. Great about the sampler sets. I'm looking forward to ordering one. I'm really enjoying what I've gotten so far. What fun! Thank you Mara.

thanks Luna! :-)

Aw shucks!

I was just wondering if I should be in a hurry to order the New Release trial size thingy. I'd like to get it, but I won't be able to order for at least another week or so. Will there still be plenty around? I was also wonderin' if the new phero is included in the New Release trial size package. I know that usually the UN pheros aren't available in trial sizes, but I think I also read that the new UN's were available in trial size in all-phero November. So I'm just curious. I'm bummed I missed Anti-Valentine, too. Great label. Scent sounded awesome & I love the name.

Lucky! For the pouncing, that is. I admire people who keep healthy long-distance relationships. It must be so tough. Although I'd imagine there's probably a healthy amount of spice kept alive, too. A few years ago my Dad took me to Europe wtih him for 3 weeks, and I missed my boyfriend so much, I actually called him every night. From Germany! He missed me so much, he cleaned the house. huh... maybe I should go away more often. ETA when I got home there was pouncing aplenty! Lol!