Here’s my initial impressions of the Royale version:
Like I mentioned in the other thread, the scent is quite pleasant to me, faint sandalwood/incense-y. I like sniffing it on my wrist.
First, I have to make clear that I have never owned any of the older rev. A314. I have only used up a togo of rev.32B-spray, so I’m not capable of comparing the Royale version to previous (oil) versions.
I wanted to start testing at 1 drop but ended up with getting more like 1,5 drop out of the eurodropper.
I wore it to my karate class. First thing I noticed was on the drive there… I felt really relaxed and calm even though I was navigating through some pretty heavy rush hour traffic.
In the class I noticed two distinct things that strikes me as different:
My kiai (shout) was deeper and more ‘ferocious’ than usual even though I was fatigued and it felt like I kept having extra ‘gas’ in my tank when doing the basic punches and kicks, like I could step it up a notch no matter how tiring the exercise was.
After class I had one thing that might have been a hit: As I walked down the stairs to the changing rooms an older gentleman waited for me to pass him through the door and wouldn’t budge even though I motioned for him to go ahead several times. It was like he INSISTED I went first even if he was at the door before me.
Second test was 2 drops. I wore it to my last day of work but it was a bitterly cold day and the office I worked in was around freezing point all day. I didn’t notice anything different that day, no self effects either.
Third test 3 drops:
I had good, relaxed self effects again but didn’t interact with a lot of people though. One hit seemed to come when I went to a supermarket: A 18-20 year old girl who was there with her girlfriend smiled very explicitly at me, once when I came in and again as I got in line behind her and her friend.
My overall impression is that this version certainly doesn’t hit as hard or as fast as the A314 rev.32B-spray but I really didn’t expect it to do so, since this is an oil.
It has effects on me (and others around me) but I almost feel as if the Royale worked better for me at 1,5 drops rather than at 3, but that time I was sweating and heating up from the vigorous karate training so this would play a big part here.
I feel like I need to test it a lot more around many people and different situations before I can give a final verdict, but I wanted to chime in with my impressions while they were still fresh in my mind.
SH