I brought from Lovescent onces, a bottle of chikara, but i think i’m getting less hits using it…but thats not what i wanna ask today.
Why are the names of the products soooo different from love scent and androticsdirect also why are the pricess sooo differents?
Same reason apples and oranges are different. Both are great but ain’t the same thing. LS is a retailer drawing product from a wide variety of sources (until last year they even sold A314 at a cheaper price than AD). They have some exclusive products designed for them but are not researchers or manufacturers. AD only sells it’s own products and designs and manufactures everything in-house.
Chikara is one of my least fav products. Smells like cheap body spray (Axe). Love NPA, TE, A1 and SOE sold at LS. If I could only have one mone product, I’d choose SOE.
I got some ridiculously unreal hits with Chikara + Edge. It was my first ever experience with mones. I was just sitting there at the bar while these 2 chicks were getting on by a guy. I turned and smiled at them and then immediately stole the conversation. At one point during the conversation, one girl whispered something to other…a few seconds later she takes my hand and says come with me to smoke a cigarette. Funny thing, after the cig, she lost interest and ignored me. I think it was before the cig smoke smell overruled the mones + plus it was outside…
Gegogi, I’ve used many of the Love-Scent products in the past and I still occasionally use Chikara and The Edge. I’ve used SOE but didn’t seem to get any significant interest or hits. I currently use Alter Ego and I also use some NPA in a few of my colognes, which I also use as cover scents for my AD products. I happen to like the scent of Chikara & so does my wife (I’ve never used or recall smelling any of the Axe products, so I can’t really compare Chikara with it). I suppose our preferences concerning the scent of various colognes are somewhat different, buy hey, in the end, it’s all very subjective.
As far as which company’s products work better? I’m still not 100% sure about the effectiveness of the LS products—even though I still often use them. Overall, though, I still prefer AD’s line over LS 
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—Keen Observer
I used Chikara and TE back in the day and it worked great. Chikara by itself was wimpy for me, but a lot of younger guys sweat by it (Not enough anone for OF). Add TE and it’s golden. I might still use it today but the scent is terrible, albeit not as bad as the newer “sour” versions of Ammo. In fairness, Ammo is really polite and needs a wee bit of extra anone for happy hour and dating. It’s actually a great work product–polite and friendly–if you don’t mind the scent.
SOE is a mellow social product suitable for work environments, family and church. It’s friendly, understated and long lasting. It get “hits” galore but of the social and friendly variety. SOE is not ideal not for horndogging but complements A314 perfectly (takes the edge off) in professional environments. If you’re wearing SOE and need to horn it up, just TE, NPA or TUTH.
The most underrated product love-scent sells is Pheromol Factor. Love that stuff!
I made my first purchase from LS the other day, am on my 3rd of many more purchase with AD.
I have not used the LS products yet. What I am currently doing is “pacing” myself, and loading up while the times aren’t so financially lean. That way, if things get tighter during the winter season, I’m ready to roll on through to spring.
Anyway what I can compare the two on is customer service, packing and shipping.
AD: So far on both shipments have tossed in a couple ToGo bottles, thumbs up on that for Customer Services. Shipping was ultra fast, and everything was tightly bubble wrapped to prevent damage.
LS: They do have some products like A-1 not offered here, that is the main reason I went there. Picked up some NPA too based on reports I read both here and there. Customer service. No free stuff…LOL. But they did ship promptly, packed everything tightly like AD, and included a 2 page sheet of instructions on how to use various mones like the NPA.
My next purchases from them will include EOW, The Edge and a few more. I did pick up some of the sample gel packs so I will see what I like out of those.
LS used to toss in all sorts of free stuff. They were really frickin’ generous. I have a whole draw of SOE, TE, AE, Chikara and Perception gels I used for travel and keep in my camera bag for emergencies. But times are lean and I think you have to request samples now and quantities are more limited.
After SOE, my fav LS product was Classic A314. 15 ml for $69 until last year. Of course AD made it for LS using their original formula (more in your face than the current more social girly boy A314). Smelled better and didn’t give me a rash like the newer shit.
Gegogi is right. It is apples and oranges.
Love Scent is a retailer, and a fine one at that. It’s not hard to argue they’re still the best (most honest/kindest) pheromone retailer out there.
While we do our best to be good mail order retailers, it was an awkward step for us. We’re more of a manufacturer that works closely with chemists (and one AMAZING one!) We sell academic quality product that you can do research with quite easily. Since we sell “direct”, our prices often for less than our chemist charges academic institutions.
We started our own store for two main reasons. First, the mostly sex related orientation of most of the industry. We wanted to see what pheromones REALLY did, first and foremost. Second, because we could find anyone to carry out ExperiMone line, the first dosed research grade chemicals on the market that allowed you to mix on your skin instead of in a bottle. Dosing and on-skin mixing were large break throughs at the time, that for some reason, no other companies thought to do.
There were 2 retailers we worked with when we started out, and a third that was an option. The problem was that retailers needed a markup that wouldn’t work with the type of project we wanted to launch. We wanted open up mass experimentation, introduce new molecules, and ultimately push pheromone technology forward.
To accomplish that, we went “direct” with all of the prequisite growing pains of doing things we really didn’t know how to do (like running a cart, shipping, etc!) It’s honestly hard to create product, run a forum, and ship quickly and accurately with decent customer service. I think the only thing that eventually made us succeed was our honest interest in actually helping people. We tried our best to treat people like we’re like to be treated, and used stores like Trader Joe’s and Zappos as models. (and Apple for innovation, but not customer service)
Long term, we’ll keep our guerilla research group (this forum) but go go full circle sales wise, and sell to retailers again. We can’t do it now with the types of chemicals we use for research purposes, but we should be able to do it one day if we can weather the storm of current economic factors. What we do here became drastically more difficult the moment Bank of America and Chase cut our credit lines, despite our perfect payment record and excellent credit. Right now, we’re a research direct company in “emergency” mode more than growth mode, but we hope to change that.
I agree that two of the best products you’ll find at Love Scent are The Edge from LaCroy and Scent of Eros from James Kohl. They also carried George Dodd’s pheromone products for awhile. He was one of the early genius’ in early pheromone technology, and someone we still admire.
Jasmine,
thanks for opening your world up to us. I’m having a blast and learning so much.
I’ve always had a bit of a thing for science as a kid. But a few bad experiences in school sort of turned me off “learning,” for awhile.
But I’m back, and loving it!
For some reason I have a hard time finding things I want there. I think it’s because they don’t tell you what’s in them. I’m looking for the IFM replacement, what’s that called there, where is it? Maybe I’m just missing it 
Jasmine: It’s pretty cool to hear why you guys started selling this stuff yourselves, and I love that you are! I’m sure LS is great but I’d prefer buying direct from you guys any day! I love that you didnt just sell it to others to sell, but rather found a way to do it yourself so that you could do it the way you intended this to be done… experimentation and all!
Before I discovered AD I used to get all my 'mones from LS & have to say AE is def up there with 1 of my fave’s, it has always guaranteed to get me hits every time, on random occasions I don’t put it on & go to same places but no hits, so it must be doing something right.
My best combo was 2 x AE, 2x AMMO, 2 x TUTH, it was 1 of my best nights ever.