OK, so after a couple of weeks of testing AD mones, I think I’m starting to get a handle on what makes them the mones of choice. Now I realise I’m not telling any of the “old hands” here anything new, but as a noob to the whole AD thing, I just thought I’d jot down my thoughts to firstly see if I really am getting it(!), and secondly to maybe help some other noobs/skeptics to decide to take the plunge and try it for themselves.
As I said in my introduction post, I first came across pheromones 7 years ago when I was trying my hardest to move things along with a girl I really fancied. Without going through all the detail again, the basic story is that I was in a pub toilet taking a leak and noticed a vending machine next to the condom machine selling sachets of pheromone. I thought, “what the hell, why not”, paid 1 GBP and gave it a go. Amazingly, the results were dramatic and we ended up in bed together within the hour. The next time we went out I didn’t use any of the pheromones and nothing happened between us. The following time however, I used these same cheap machine vended pheromones again, and lo and behold, things happened between us again! While not exactly an empirical test, I was certainly sold on the potential of pheromones.
So anyway here I am now 7 years later fairly recently out of a long term relationship, with my eye on a new lady of 26, and the idea of pheromones just re-entered my head.
Before finding this site and AD, I trawled the net for a while for new info and ended up trying Human Euphoria and then Pheromax - both to zero effect as far I as could tell, even in varying dosages - before finding myself at AD’s door so to speak. And now a couple of weeks after starting to test their products (Ammo, IS, IH, IO, TUTH and MX444), it’s dawning on me the difference between AD products and some of the other products out there. To me, the best analogy is like trying to compare using a sledgehammer or a scalpel to crack a nut. Let me explain -
Take the sledgehammer - clumsy, cheap to make and sell, not a lot of thought needs to go into the design - and if you tried swinging it to crack a nut with it, I could imagine that 5 times out of 10 you might miss the nut completely. Another 4 times you might hit the nut but smash it completely so the end result still isn’t a success. Perhaps 1 time out of 10 you might clip the nut just right to crack it open. This is how I have personally found the other non-AD pheromone products I’ve tried - clumsy, no doubt cheap to make and sell, and while obviously capable of hitting the spot occasionally (e.g. the cheap vending machine mones from years ago), they are also considerably more capable of missing entirely or overdoing it considerably.
Now consider the scalpel - precise, easier to control, well designed but more expensive - and if you tried to open a nut with it, I reckon that with careful use, 8 or 9 times out of 10 you would manage to open it. Of course, if you use it inappropriately and don’t give it respect, you’re gonna have an undesirable result! Maybe a couple of times you might find a nut that’s too hard to open with a scalpel, but hopefully not too many! This is how I see AD’s mones - much more precise and controllable, yes more expensive but you kinda get what you pay for.
The thing I’ve really noticed is that for the most part (with the exception of a large dose of MX444), the effects that I’ve had from AD’s mones are pretty subtle… and that’s not remotely a bad thing at all. I’ve been wearing 3 or 4s of x2 IS along with generally 1 or 2s of Ammo as a kind of daily “base”, and I’ve definitely noticed a difference in the behaviour of my 26 year old target. She’s quite a shy and reserved girl and rarely makes the first move, although she’s great company when we do hook up. However, this last week, she’s just seemed so much more relaxed around me - more confident, more smiley, more engaging, making an effort to come to me instead of me going to her. She even invited me for lunch this week - something she’s not done in the two months I’ve known her. (That may sound like a minor thing, and I guess it is, but when you know what someone’s personality is like, even a small step like that is probably quite a big step for her). So in this respect, I can say that the effects of IS (and the touch of Ammo) seem fairly subtle, but they are noticeably there.
I’ve also noticed a subtle change in my interaction with people at work. I’m quite an outgoing guy anyway, but I’ve felt “happier” in challenging work situations and more “in charge” if that makes sense. Now I should say that as a scientist (physicist) by profession I’m very sceptical of claims of “self-effects” as there is undoubtedly huge scope for placebo effects to come into play. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing of course : ultimately if something works, via the placebo effect or otherwise, then the outcome is the same. However, it’s often only later in the day when I remember I’ve been wearing the mones that I realise how my demeanour was different in certain situations. Again, a subtle but very nice effect. 
I think one of the problems a lot of new users have is that they expect earth-shattering effects, similar to a Class A drug or something! In my admittedly very limited experience with mones, it just doesn’t happen like that. That said, the one example of a less than subtle effect was my testing of MX444 in a dose of 5 sprays. I won’t retell the tale here as I’ve already posted it in the MX444 testing thread, but in the higher dose it definitely produced some interesting results! 
So in summary, my noob advice to any sceptical fence-sitter would be - just try it, give it a little time to see and appreciate the subtle but desirable effects, and don’t necessarily expect instant knicker’s down action from the off! 
Anyway, that’s just my rambling thoughts after a couple of weeks of useage. Hope they prove useful to someone. Thanks for reading!