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Thanks, that's great advice! I've been playing around with this today, need a few more days testing to figure out my sweet spot.

Can anyone give me an idea of what a good amount of this to use would be? I know it is trial and error, but what has worked for you guys? Like how many sprays?

Ahh... I have no idea what that could be then... sorry

Ok, maybe it's all placebo but I'm definitely continuing to feel soothed and a little sleepy everytime I smell this. I really do need to get a full bottle. Just can't work out what scent to go for. The only scents I can think of that would be soothing to me is aquatic smells, like waterfalls or ocean, maybe something with some water lilies or very gentle, "open" florals. Something "soft". Does anyone have any suggestions? BTW, is there a thread for just the Balm Bomb phero, or should I start one? I think this is starting to move away from a discussion on Heart's Ease. Please feel free to move it if necessary.

LadyV, this was my experience as well, and I realised that unknown, familiar element was the ginger. Is that the case for you?

Aha! That's why I couldn't find this post, I was searching for "Any color you like" or "color you like" or even just "color" and nothing was coming up lol

Moon Bloom, you've inspired me to try this out next. Your experience with your TG is exactly what I'm trying to replicate - have him see me "with new eyes". (What exactly does TG stand for anyway? Test Guy? Target Guy?)

Eggers, that might be a good idea. I'm tempted to buy a full bottle of Balm Bomb, especially since I've now used up the majority of my bottle (see this post...). Alternatively maybe I could figure out a scent that I find soothing and have the Balm Bomb added to it. I haven't yet thought of any soothing scents but I'll keep thinking about it. Chocolate cookies is about the closest I've come up with so far, but that's not so much soothing as just hunger inducing

This is quite spicy and smoky to me. I have the same feeling Luna does with it on drydown, it becomes perfume-y and old lady on me. Too much like a commercial scent. For some reason I also get florally, or at least the suffocating kind of feeling of too-strong florals - maybe because they evoke allergies in me and this scent somehow reminds me of getting allergies or makes me feel I will get them, although no sign so far.

Turns out this scent isn't really my thing. I can get what you all like about it, but I guess resins just don't work on me - they make me feel old for some reason, so perhaps I associate the resiny smell with some old ladies I've met or something. I do get a bit of cedar and some sweetness as well, which makes it tolerable. The amber and musk smells really sexy, but somehow I just don't like it. This might be good to round out some really sweet blends as Goddesslynne suggests but I probably wouldn't wear it otherwise.

I couldn't find the thread for this so I thought I'd start one up, but please move this to the appropriate place if there is already a thread out there and I missed it. I just loooove this smell. It is all fruity and sweet but I can smell BLUE, like maybe blueberries. It has the candied quality about it that I love in Jungle Colada and Nectar de L'amour. It is beautiful in the bottle and on application, but my skin eats a fair bit and makes it mellow somewhat, which is probably for the best since I am likely to slather this given half a chance. A new favourite for me. My only objection is that the Australian in me wants to spell this Any Colour you Like, hehehe

I'm really really late to this party, but what is the pheromone blend in this? Is it just cops?

My official review: Pheromone ingredients: Contains a phero mix that is listed as “X~ Balm Bomb” on the website and “La Balm Bomb” on the bottle (La Balm Bomb would make more sense I guess, as a play on the song “la bamba”?). Anyway, I will refer to it just as Balm Bomb. This mix contains androstadienone, alpha androstenol, DHEAS, epiandrosterone, beta-THDOC, and estratetraenol. Price: Standard $29.95 for a 10ml bottle, although I actually got this in a trial size of 1.5ml for $5. Even this works out to only be about $33.33 for 10ml, which is still pretty good value. I love the option of having trial sizes, such a good idea, and so cheap! Presentation: Since this is a trial size I got it in a little glass vial with a plastic stopper. My main problem with these vials is the stopper is so hard to take on and off, it is really jammed on, which I guess is necessary to keep the contents in but can be a bit of a pain. I’ve taken to kind of chewing the lid off before when I couldn’t get it with my fingers, and so I can say from experience these potions smell so much better than they taste!! It is also harder to measure out dosages without the roll-on or spray option. But given this is only a trial and I’m paying so little for it, these are really small prices to pay and I guess they’re not even complaints really, just observations. I do prefer the full bottles – they are just so much nicer and tidier. Love the label on this, the bohemian cats are so quirky and unusual. The cat on this one just looks at me so sadly. I’ve seen my cat give me this look when I’m on my way out the door and she doesn’t want me to go, hehe Smell: This is all lavender to me. I don’t really like lavender and so this isn’t a favourite. I know there is supposed to be other notes in there but I’m just not getting them, it’s all just “look at me I’m lavender!!”. I don’t hate the smell, but I don’t particularly like it, and I don’t really like smelling of it. It’s a little milder on drydown, but not enough for my taste. Results: I’m not sure what to put down to placebo and what is actual effect – I’ve read so much about what self-effects this is supposed to have that maybe I’ve convinced myself I’m really feeling them. But whether it’s placebo or “real”, I’m definitely feeling something! When I use this properly it seems to just negate my negative mood, bringing me back to a more neutral state. It gently leads me away from moodiness and negative thoughts, but it doesn’t give me a real kick in the positive direction, which is good because I really don’t want my moods being played with that strongly. It is more sedating and even a bit numbing. The effect is very strong when I use too much. Feeling a bit pissed off this evening, I put some on a cotton pad and accidentally put on way more than I meant to so the pad was a bit soaked (I didn’t intend to, it was just hard to judge coming out of the vial). I’ve had it nearby and the scent has been hitting me strongly. At first I felt just basically a boredom with my angsty feelings – just couldn’t be bothered thinking about this anymore, time to do something else! Now I’m starting to feel a little spaced out and tired, and it’s getting harder to focus – not seriously difficult, just a light feeling. I think this would be good for helping people sleep, in fact I think I’ll put a cotton pad or two of this in my pillow. This is really not a "get up and get motivated" blend! The interesting thing is, since I clearly used way too much, I got a little of the heart pounding, caffeine stuff that I get with alpha androstenol – only a little, mind you, and I did use a lot of product. But I also felt like I really just didn’t care – I knew what it was and that it would go away and I was just relaxed about it. It was also mild enough that it was more energising, while at the same time calming – and I know that probably doesn’t make any sense at all to someone reading it, but that’s the only way I can describe it! In short, I can feel there’s alpha androstenol in it, which on me has the opposite effect to that intended for this product, but it pulls it off ok. As for effects on others, I really have no idea, and while I think I should test it I probably won’t because I don’t really want to smell like lavender. To me it’s an old lady’s smell, and I’ll put up with it because I like the effects but I would rather others didn’t associate me with that smell. One option might be to just get Balm Bomb without any scent added, but I suspect that the lavender and other scents in the perfume are actually contributing towards its effect somewhat as I’ve heard that lavender was traditionally used to help people sleep, so might be better not to mess with it. So to summarise the above: smooths out bad feelings, numbing, may cause drowsiness.

LOL! You crack me up LadyV! What kind of doctor wants to know why you aren't pregnant?? What on earth was he trying to imply?

At first this smells like sweet, lemoned tea. There was a hint of a bitter, tea leaf quality to it, which I really wanted more of, but it was only a hint. Having recently tried Lizzy's Tizzy, it smelled like that but without the ginger, which meant I got all the nice qualities I liked from Lizzy's Tizzy but without the nauseating feel that I got from my scent memory of ginger. The smell is loud at first, but mellows a lot on drydown until I almost can't smell it at all. What I can smell is like a soft, powdery lemon. I'm still not sure if I love this one or if it's just ok. I never thought I would want to smell like tea, but surprisingly it works.

I really like this - but then, from the title alone I knew I would Pretty much what it says, honey and berry. The honey to me is a very light honey, not like some of the deep, rich, almost bitter smelling honey I've tried before. Very sweet. I could not agree more with Tyvey's comment: Yep, pretty much, that. The two scents bring out the best attributes in each other. It has a slightly different quality on drydown, I don't quite know the words for it... I think it actually goes a bit sweeter. Maybe it is plasticky? But in a good way? I still really like it, though it does run the risk of being TOO sweet...

This took me a long time to put my finger on. The smell of it is so very distinct. I don't know any other word for it. I knew I could smell something really familiar in there and it took me a while to place it (fragrance newb, and remember I am doing this testing without reading any info on the ingredients first) but I finally figured out the ginger in it - it smells like ginger tea to me. At first this smell nauseated me a little and I couldn't figure out why, but then when I picked the ginger it made sense, because I always drink ginger tea to settle my stomach when I'm nauseous. I guess my scent memory is taking that smell and associating it with being ill. Unfortunate, as there's something very polished and just refined about this that I think could have wonderful potential. Maybe it's the resins. I could probably get used to it and create a better sense memory with the smell, but I don't think I'll have enough for that as this is only a sampler, and with so many other lovely smells out there I think I'll stick to some of the others that I don't have that association with.

I got this as a sample and just from the description I didn't think I'd like it, as I don't like musk and didn't think I liked violets, but I am really pleasantly surprised. I get very sweet notes from this, like candy, and I can smell the violet strongly but for some reason I really like it. Maybe I am a violet fan after all? Or perhaps it is the fact that it is "sugared"? Anyway I love this in the bottle and on application. On drydown it becomes less sweet and more floral and I like it a bit less, but only a little bit less - still enjoying it. Because I like this one so much in the bottle I think I will tip my sample onto a cotton pad and add it to my pot pourri collection (an organza bag filled with pieces of cotton pad soaked in various perfume oils). Always happy to discover new scents to love

I get a combination of greens and florals from this. Like the whole flower has been captured, stems and all. It's a bit tangy like lemon-y to me. Overall it's a little too florally for my liking, but it's ok.

For some reason this perfume reminds me of my mum? I guess it must be similar to whatever fragrance she wears, but strangely enough I don't even know what fragrance she does wear. Must ask her sometime.

After a long time of being run down and overtaxed, I suddenly came down very physically ill today at work. It was all I could do to get myself home. I was feeling very panicked and stressed, and crawled into bed and put a Spa Mint with Tranquility on the burner. Before long I began to feel better, not physically but I got the feeling that "everything will be all right", and just became more accepting about the fact that I was sick and not panicking too much over it. Could have been that I was now home safe in bed, but I think the Tranquility also played a role.

Question, has anyone tried this in spray form? How does it fare?

Couldn't agree more!

Dammit, I've got to stop following this thread! It's making me want this so much, it sounds JUST like me, but I need to save up some more money first! Please don't let them all sell out! Mara, are there many left??

My full review on Mara's Rocket Fuel III, taken from PheroTruth. Pheromone ingredients: Contains the “Super sexy for women” pheromone blend, a mix of estratetraenol, alpha androstenol, DHEA, tetrahydrodeoxycorticosterone, androstanone Price: Good value at $29.95 for a 10ml roller bottle of oil. Presentation: Standard bottle from Love Potion with a cute picture on the front. Lovely as always. Smell: I wasn’t too keen on this smell at first. In the bottle it smelled more bitter than I would have expected. On my skin it mellows out a bit and becomes caramel and sugar, but not sweet sugar – “toasted sugar” was Sporty’s excellent description. It is an all right smell, nothing wrong with it but I guess I am into the really sweet stuff. Anyway I have taken to spraying a spritz or two of Pink Sugar over this, and it just becomes heaven. Pink Sugar is already wonderful, but it becomes so delicious and sexy with the darker, toasted sugar under it. I can’t get enough of it! Even wearing only a small amount other people have commented on how delicious I smell. I asked them to describe the smell but I guess describing smells is difficult because I got everything from “apple” to “lavender” to “bubble gum”! But hey, as long as it’s good Results: I’ve only worn this a few times and already I’m so impressed I wanted to write up a review. This is not OMG AMAZING stuff (I haven’t found anything yet that is) but it certainly has a very nice, very noticeable effect. I’m definitely getting “hits” from all directions, at least as far as males go. Nothing out of the ordinary from other females, but nothing bad from them either. Last night I wore this out socially. Argh, I’ve been trying to hide this for a while since I wanted to have as much anonymity on here as possible, but it’s becoming too hard to describe these situations without giving away this information – I’m a dancer. So when I say “socially”, that means dancing – the social group, including C2, are my fellow dancers. Sadly C2 wasn’t there last night, though I’d love to have tested this on him. One guy, let’s call him Ed, who is a good 30 years older than me, used to be pretty friendly with me, and I really enjoyed his sense of humour and all the knowledge he had to share with me. He has a real bitch of a wife, who I think doesn’t like him hanging around me (like there is seriously any kind of threat from me...) and so for a good year or so he’s been keeping his distance a bit from me, and I’ve noticed her giving me some dirty looks when I do talk to him, or him getting a bit chastened from her at times after he’s danced with me. So I didn’t take it too personally, as I felt pretty sure she was behind it, and don’t care what she thinks as she is clearly insecure for no good reason. Anyway, I mention all this to explain that, unlike usual, Ed was extremely friendly last night, despite her being nearby all evening. I noticed on several occasions, like a good half a dozen times he happened to come near me he stood really close, almost touching me. I caught him sniffing the air once, like really trying to breathe in my scent. He seemed flattered by every piece of attention I gave him, laughed really hard at my jokes, even though some were pretty lame. He even asked me to dance with him, which he hasn’t done in almost a year – he actually came over from the other side of the room to ask me. Every time we have danced in the past year it’s been because I’ve asked him, and usually if his wife is nearby he makes up an excuse not to. He also kept talking about how he had to be aggressive and commanding at his job during the day, and so he liked to relax when he was out dancing, and made references throughout the night to being dominant or passive in a way that kept bordering on being quite sexual or suggestive. When he danced he seemed to be trying really hard to impress me, throwing in some over the top and even some aggressive moves. He kept looking at me in a way that seemed to be trying to judge what I thought, or whether I was impressed. For another dancer, I accidentally trod on his toe at one point, and he said, ‘That’s ok, I don’t mind having you on top’ (!!) – and then blushed like mad, like he honestly hadn’t meant to say that! He was embarrassed around me for the rest of the night! I got majorly hit on by a 17-year-old (I’m 26 soon), which was kind of funny because I’m not used to being in the “older woman” role. He just seemed to follow me around like a puppy dog. Again there was the wanting my attention thing, craving my approval from him. He gave obvious indications that he wanted me to stay and talk with him, or dance with him, all night (17 year olds aren’t the most subtle I guess), and expressed keen disappointment when he had to leave. In all, I just felt very popular all evening. Remember this is the same crowd that totally ignored me when I was wearing waaay too much cops and Alfa Donna, so this isn’t necessarily usual behaviour from them. Definitely something different. Today – wearing the Rocket Fuel and Pink Sugar combo again. First I had a massage. My masseuse is a much older male and is always very flirty with me, but not in a creepy way, just in a “oh if I were only 30 years younger you’d be in trouble young lady ” kind of way. Ok that still sounds kind of creepy, but take my word for it, it’s actually all ok, I have never felt unsafe or anything, he’s very professional just has a quirky sense of humour, which suits me really well . I can tell he’s attracted to me (let’s face it, he sees me naked regularly) but has always taken his cue from me on what is appropriate to do or not do. I’ve made it clear where the line is drawn and he’s always respected that. Today he was much the same, but commented on what a nice smell I had about me. He mentioned it a few times, and kept leaning in to take a huff. The conversation did get a little dirty, as it sometimes does with him, as he talked about “SLM” massage, and I thought he said “S&M”... and it went downhill from there! Then there was talk about how comfortable I am with my body, how good I am to massage, etc. Sounds like hits, but in the context of this person I think this behaviour is not too unexpected, and might have occurred regardless? Anyway, next I went to work. And the amazing part – C1 actually seemed to be affected!! I was sooo thrilled, it has been almost impossible to get anything even approaching a sexual response from him, and it has kind of become my goal to find a pheromone that has this effect on him! It is still not really blatant, but, hey, I’m happy with baby steps. The effect I noticed on him was that he seemed a little surprised about something – is this the “Deer in the Headlights” I have heard you guys talking about? He said that I smelled nice (without me asking or prompting in any way, just kind of randomly), but actually looked away as he said it, as though embarrassed? Almost like he was saying it to himself? I mentioned to him that I had had a massage (he asked why I was late) and he seemed to really like this idea, bringing it up a few times afterwards with no introduction to it, just “So, you liked your massage then?” “Did your massage help?”. He seemed to have this glint in his eye as he asked and I was thinking (hoping?) that he was bringing it up because he liked the idea of me naked I fed him some details about the masseuse working on my body to help him along, and he didn’t seem too quick to change the subject Otherwise he seemed just as though he was in a good mood (which he possibly was, that may have had nothing to do with the pheromones), and was quite nice and friendly to me (which he hasn’t been so much lately – he’s been a bit resentful and grouchy in recent weeks), and seemed to want to impress me. This may in part be because lately I have tried to kind of work on our relationship a bit, trying in subtle ways to build him up and help him see that I’m not the enemy, in fact I’m his friend and I support him. However, I think the pheromones may be helping that along. I have a theory based only on intuition that this blend, being copulin-free, is not doing the testosterone-raising thing that seems to just piss him off; instead this just makes him think, “wow, she’s so wonderful, I want her to like me ”. So, sorry for all the long descriptions here, I just wanted to document all of these interactions so I can be sure I’m not coming to the wrong conclusions. What I am concluding from this mix is that it creates a bit of “awe” amongst people affected by it, making them think you are amazing and wanting your approval. Ed laughing overly hard at my jokes and staring at me like I was some kind of deity keeps coming to my mind – that feeling just sums it up. Like, “you’re so wonderful, please bestow your attention on me!” . There’s definitely something sexual about it as well, I wish I could try this mix out during sex. Who wouldn’t want to have sex with someone who thought you were a goddess?