Synergist

Oh, that's awesome! A scientist star, that's even more neat! He looks hot

I agree with PP being a pretty safe bet - I don't think it takes away the limelight from anyone else necessarily, for me it just makes me popular and makes everyone get along, but not in a way like everyone is hanging off my words and ignoring other people. I'm intrigued now, I wish you could tell us who your BFF star is!!

Mmm, marshmallow. I'm so sad my package hasn't arrived yet. I drove two hours to get to my postbox yesterdy and it wasn't there I can't wait to try this one and Fleur de Vanille.

Lol, QG!

Such lovely tales here from everyone I am glad I'm not alone in my feeling that this is something special here!

I think Mara's Rocket Fuel III... has the popular, and the "sexy but not sexual" going for it, and smells delish! Please elaborate further Shehoss...

Nice review I've always wondered about the effects of pheromones on animals. My cats seem to hate the smell of my perfumes - they smell them on me and wrinkle their noses and back away! I guess if it doesn't smell like food or something in heat they're not interested

I don't really have any tips, but I just wanted to say, I LOVE your avi! What a gorgeous kitty!! Is s/he yours?

"At Ease!" would be a great name for a perfume phero-enhanced with H&S! It could be similar to Heart's Ease, but more tailored to putting other people at ease... a bit of a play on the military term...

I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only one who does this!!

Wow, Gaby, are you saying English isn't your first language?? You are speaking (writing) it amazingly if so!! I admire you so much being fluent in more than one language, sometimes I struggle with just the one, lol

Shehoss, that's a shame to hear. What sort of dosage have you been using?

I considered mixing Balm Bomb with a different perfume as well, but it started to get too hard for me lol. I think if I were going to mix perfumes and pheros I would probably just get Mara to do it, at least that way I know it will be done right. But then you have a lot more experience than I do!

Here's my official review I wasn't sure whether to put this here or in PP, so please move it if it needs to be moved. Review on Love Potion’s “Darling Catalina” and “Popularity Potion” I’m reviewing both of these in the same post because Darling Catalina contains the Popularity Potion phero blend, and I’ve pretty much been wearing them together anyway. I have Darling Catalina in oil form so I’ve been using a dab of that on my wrists, neck, cleavage, behind ears, or any combination of the four, and unscented Popularity Potion in 60/40 alcohol/oil spray, so a spray of that to my hair, or spraying it into the air and walking through it. Pheromone ingredients: The Popularity Potion phero blend consists of alpha androstenol, androstanone, estratetraenol, THDOC, 17-phenyl-androstenol, and epiandrosterone sulphate. I’ve got a handle by now on these first three ingredients, but I’ve got no clue about the last three. Price: Normally $5 for 1.5ml trial vial or $29.95 for full 10ml bottle for Darling Catalina, but Mara was kind enough to throw in a trial vial free with my last order The PP phero blend alone in oil is $39.95, but can be made into a spray for only $5 more ($44.95), which is pretty good when you consider to make any of the perfume-phero blends into a spray is usually $15 more (goes from $29.95 to $44.95) Presentation: PP was one of the first ones I got in spray form. The glass bottle is standard, attractive enough and stacks easily with other glass bottles as it is rectangular in shape. Label is one of the more uninteresting ones out there. Darling Catalina label is gorgeous though, as are all the Bohemian Cats hehe I believe it is actually Mara’s avatar at the moment, so I think of her every time I look at it! Smell: I haven’t detected any smell in PP, although I’ve read some people saying they can smell it. All I get is a slight alcohol smell on first application, which quickly disappears. I usually cover UN sprays with another fragrance anyway, just in case it does start to smell. Darling Catalina is a different story, I love the foodiness of this. In a side by side comparison with this and Kitten Nip, I like this one a lot better. It smells more “genuine” to me, no chemically, fake smell. It is sweet, cookies and cream, cupcakey, sugary yumminess. It feels a bit “warm” to me, like something I would wear on a cold night, somehow I prefer cooler scents for warm weather or activities where I get warm like dancing. Results: This definitely lives up to its name. For me it has the same kind of feel as Super Sexy for Women, but with the sexiness toned down a bit. I just feel more important when wearing this. People seem to want to talk to me, ask me to dance more, seem to enjoy their conversations with me more, and don’t seem to want me to leave; but it’s all in a respectful rather than a pushy way. C2 was strange on this, he seemed to be acting like I was a goddess and he wasn’t worthy of my attention. Now given he is the one who broke it off with me, this behaviour struck me as a little odd. He kept thanking me for dancing with him, kept acting as though I would be doing him a big favour if I could find the time for just one more dance, and when it was time to leave he didn’t seem to want me to go and was very specific about confirming when he would see me next, in a way that seemed to be saying something that I just couldn’t put my finger on. I was trying to analyse it or find the right words to describe it, and all I could manage was that it seemed almost like he was embarrassed in my presence, in a kind of hero worship way? Maybe someone can understand what I’m trying to say here and word it a bit better! Another dancer, who seems to be a very genuine, decent guy in his fifties (I’ll call him Neil), and a lady probably in her forties, who I’ll call Ellen, ended up in a very weird conversation with me. I was wearing a short-ish skirt, but with dark pantyhose underneath, so I didn’t think the look was too inappropriate because I was basically well covered up. But when I sat down after a dance Neil touched my leg, where the skirt ended – not in a sleazy way, just a drawing attention to it kind of way – and when I looked at him questioningly he commented on the skirt’s length. It was hard to ascertain if he was saying it as a good or bad thing, but after a weird conversation with him and Ellen I got the impression that they had been talking about it while I was dancing, and that they thought it was inappropriately short, but that boy did I have the legs for it!! Anyway, the conversation was just weird because it was all about pantyhose and stockings and underwear and all kinds of innuendo ended up being thrown around. Neil himself looked really surprised and out of his depth at the conversation, although he was obviously really enjoying it. Even though all this was kind of sexual, it never seemed to go anywhere sleazy, and even the admiration of my legs was done in a nice, not an inappropriate way. So I am still taking this pheromone as basically not very sexual. I had a nasty experience with this last night due to Roger the inappropriate dancer, and I’ve written about that elsewhere, but won’t repost it here as I don’t think it was because of the PP – I am pretty sure it was either the cops I was still inadvertently wearing from the day before, or his scent memory of me wearing Extracurricular Proclivities. So, putting him aside and looking at the behaviour of everyone else that night, here’s my analysis. The setting was the opening of a new dance club, and the instructors, who I knew from my old club, were obviously trying to woo everyone and encourage them to come back. I was one of the most experienced dancers there, and so obviously they would be keen to keep me coming back, so I’m taking the treatment I received in light of this and open to the possibility that it really wasn’t the phero blend at all. Basically they treated me like I was royalty, and like they would do anything I wanted. When I mentioned Roger’s inappropriate behaviour I was assured steps would be taken and the style of the class would change and so on and so on, and I felt like I could have asked for anything I wanted and would have been assured of it (although somehow I didn’t feel that they would necessarily do it, but they sure were keen to say it). One instructor sought me out as soon as the class was finished, and stood talking to me for a while right in the middle of the dance floor about how good I was and what great technique I had, and as people tried to dance around us I kind of had to lead us off the floor and he just followed, still talking at me! He then wanted a couple of dances, and later in the evening I heard him talking to someone else, and breaking off the conversation with, “Excuse me, I’m going to go grab another dance with Synergist now”! We were on an old and rather crappy floor and I complained that spinning on this floor hurt my ankles, and again it was lean over backwards to try to accommodate me – promises that next week the floor would be polished, and the floor would be getting extended soon, and so on – even an apology from him for asking me to dance in the first place! I should explain that this dance instructor was very snooty previously, basically never danced with anyone but his partner at the old club and never even paid me any attention at all until I became good. Even now, it’s kind of seen as an honour to be asked to dance by him, as he is very selective and gives off the impression that he doesn’t like to waste his time with newbies. Still, I’m not quick to take his behaviour towards me as indication of his liking me or even responding to the pheromones – most likely his niceness towards me has a perfect correlation with my level of dancing expertise. Sorry for the waffly review. One of these days I will learn the art of succinctness

This one is lovely! I expected I wouldn't like it as normally roses smell like my grandma to me. But these are such sweet, girly, sugary roses, I think I can JUST get away with it as a rose scent. That's saying a bit coming from me! It is very girly and innocent, sexy but in a very sweet way. I only get the cookie part at first, on drydown it is just the roses, so I think I would like it more if I got more cookie and chocolate out of it, but it's still quite delicious

I'm sorry but I really don't like this one at all. It just smells chemically to me. At best, once it has softened on drydown, it is like cut grass, which still isn't something I want to smell like. Not one for me.

Oooh... maybe!!

Perfumer's alcohol is not so easy to get, but I've been using Spirytus Rektyfikowany, which is essentially Polish vodka and at 95% alcohol it does the job pretty damn well and doesn't seem to have much of a smell.

Ok, thanks Snow and JOC, looks like I might have to start buying sprays AND oils of some of my favourite blends! Or get them in oil and make my own sprays

I've been reading through this thread trying to interpret some behaviours I've been seeing from people when exposed to H&S and I think I get it now. The effect of this on my crush was to make him a little more emotional, particuarly in regards to his feelings for me - no declarations of undying love or anything, but just how much he would miss me when I left, how much he enjoyed my company, etc. It just altered his usual way of showing affection for me joking and teasing, to just being really nice to me and saying nice, warm and fuzzy things. Good stuff. I can see how this could go wrong with too much product, and turn other people into basket cases around you, but the amount I use seems to be about right.

Does anyone have any thoughts on putting on both an oil and a spray of something? If you only do a bit, like a dab of oil and one spritz of spray, does this give you the best of both worlds (range and diffusion + staying power), or is it still overkill?

This is a lovely, clean, fresh green apple smell with a hint of mint that is just bright enough that you know it's there, but isn't overwhelming. I actually made an aromatherapy sachet for my car with this. I slathered a bunch of this on some cotton pads, as well as a little Winterberry Wonderland and some Shelly B's Bodacious Bomb, then tore up the cotton pads and put them in an organza bag. The bag is hanging from the rearview mirror in my car, and everytime I get in my car it smells fresh and clean and like apples. After being in my car for a bit I feel like I've breathed in some mint, because my mouth goes a bit tingly and fresh-feeling, like I've just had a very mild breath mint. I don't mind it at all, makes me feel clean and not so worried about having bad breath! Have received good comments from others on the smell too. It would be great if, as a bonus, I started snacking less, and being in the car maybe it will help discourage me from stopping at McDonalds!

I love your review style Gaby. I don't normally go for lavender, but I have a feeling I'm going to love this one if it is more marshmallow. Can't wait!

I am dying to try this out just for the Bird of Paradise note.... those are my favourite flowers looks-wise, but I never thought too much about their smell before. I think this will be really interesting - can't wait for my sampler to arrive!!

Lol @ Unicorn Jockey hehehe Though I would prefer Narwhal Jockey, since I still think they are the inspiration behind unicorns