Please bear in mind that these are still my fairly early impressions, but here is a bit about each one copied straight from my notebook as I wrote stuff down:
275: Good start. Immediately Cheerful. Heavy TAA? Pretty good vibes. Makes me unproductive. Authoritative, but not oppressive. Confidence? Self comfort?
276: Again strong Taa-ish cheerfulness right at the start. Doesn’t really vibe well though. Minor discomfort?
277: Real Good. Good TAA again. Confidence. Really good vibe, meshes well. unproductive again, but not worried. Carefree. ~5hrs, seems to get a bit better near the end.
278: Big ole meh. Not feeling it. Just a bad day? maybe…
279: Massive headache starts out of nowhere shortly after application. Smells like the scent strength was turned way up. Obnoxious and sickening. headache persists all day. Don’t catch any goodness.
280: (Early in the day) Immediately uplifting (Taa again???). Sort of makes me tired, but really in a relaxed way. Lazy and unproductive again. Looking good in the mirror, and people on the street just seem to look better. Babetastic? Seems to mesh even better as time goes on. Scent not overbearing.
beware lonliness, mild depressive qualities (mid-life, when not around people. vanishes if I’m aroundly friendlies. listen to up beat music helps too).
(Re-application late. night out) opens up some normally cold/distant people. very friendly. desire to be around people. good conversation, everyone looks better? Girls checking me out or am i just imagining (hair flips, turning to look at “me”/my direction)? having a really good time. all’s good. got tired though. wearing out? sleep now, kbye.
281: Same TAA start really like it. makes everything immediately “nice”. scent is not overbearing. good amount. Niceish. Feel good. llazy again. don’t care. Competitive? when pushed. bit hyper. get’s better with time.
Each was tested on a fairly similar normal day at two sprays. One on the wrists, one on the chest. You can notice that there defintily seems to be a mood uplifting quality to these that I really like. But on the other hand, they seem to enhance the lazy side of my personality. It really took some effort to get myself moving. Once out and about things were fine, and it generally makes you feel good to be around people.
If I spent too much time by myself, eventually it would sort of bum me out, but this could be easily offset by finding friends, or blasting some upbeat tunes.
I’m pretty sure there was a sort of visual enhancement with the ones that meshed well with me. Like things just looked better (280 positively, I can’t recall with the others.)
Each lasted a good 5 hours ish and seemed to follow a pattern of Happy/relaxed TAA start, sort of lull in the middle (beware), nice confident vibey finish. the best part is that last end where things just seem to click and everything seems to make sense.
The strength of “the game” scent seemed to vary wildly from bottle to bottle. I’m of the opinion that less is better in this case, and I think the ones that didn’t mesh well with me were higher on the smell-o-scale. I noticed that immediately after applying, food tasted weird. maybe a side effect of the game? I had to throw away a great bowl of chilli cause I couldn’t stomach the taste. too much also caused really bad headaches.
Don’t think I’m knocking it entirely, at the lower intensities it’s really not a bad scent. It’s sort of clean and refreshing smelling and I don’t mind it. It’s just past a certain point, it gets really chemical and artificial and pure migrain inducing agony.
I’m thinking that maybe you guys (androtics) are just putting too much in? Like you said, the game has much better diffusion properties, so there probably isn’t a big need for a ton of it. If you’re clubing, a user can go ahead and put on a ton to compete, but personally I prefer plain simple and subtle and if one spray is overkill there’s no way for me to take that away.
In order of ranking:
277/280/281 are definitely worthwhile. definitely going to continue testing these more fully.
275 is kinda alright but not enough to really captivate.
276, 278, and 279 aren’t worth it for me. might just be my makeup, so take that with a grain of salt.