Many of the mixes from A300 to A319 were bombs. A couple tested well on multiple testers, including A314. It was an enormous undertaking to zero in on a mix that both young and old people could use to good effect, which was one of the design goals.
It’s also been tweaked over the years. I don’t think that’s anathema, like it is to some formulas.
I think most designers don’t tweak their formulas, because they don’t use their formulas, or listen to people who do. I use and listen, therefore I tweak.
Pheromones were my hobby before they were my business. I was, myself, looking for better pheromonal tools to use, tools that nobody else wanted to produce. They were content with their magic mixes that weren’t even magic.
I’m extremely passionate about new technology. Exploring the tehnology of tommorow is a a lot of fun to me, and that’s exactly what pheromones are… a technology of tommorow. We’re all early adopters. No matter how ‘finalized’ the advertising seems to be for some products, the last word has not been spoken!
Anyway, yes, complex mixes aren’t easy.
Ultimately, you really need to “go Edison” about the whole thing… TONS of different experiments.
It’s also good to go where the mix itself wants to go… this technology is too new to be able to easily go in and design around an effect. It’s best to mix first, identify and name it LATER. That’s the opposite of what many people do (not just formulators, but experimenters in forums as well), I think, and that in itself is a huge source of frustration, I’m sure.
Now, it’s NOT simple to roll out beta mixes to testers, unfortunately. People who are already familiar with pheromones want to use whatever has been giving them good results, PLUS your mix. They never want to potentially waste a few hours or a whole day with a “bad mix”.
So they report back bunk results. I’ve had better luck rolling out beta testers to people who are completely ignorant of pheromone phenom.
If you want something sexually intense, you’re mixing pheromone colored paint not just into your own pheromonal colors, but those of your target.
One mix will never translate perfectly from wearer to wearer, or target to target.
I’ve never had the problem finding ‘sexual’ mixes, though, that some seem to have. I think it depends largely on your POV, and your own actions.
If you want to get blatantly sexual responses from unknown women on the street, sure, it’s a little ‘complex’. What you’re looking for is what I all “special effects”, whereas most good pheromone mixes that people like long term are more like a meaty drama.
Anyway, sexual effects from a date? A bonafide women you somehow obtain a date with, and spend several hours with live, close and in the flesh?
Almost any decent masuline pheromone mix is going to lead to some kind of intimacy, or sex, as long as you don’t overapply and creep them out or scare them.
Men need to stop acting like women with pheromones, and remember to keep acting like men. Pheromones don’t flip nature upside down and around. They make you more “attractive”, but not in the same way that women are “attractive”.
Women Attract with a capital A. Attraction is a verb for women. It’s a primary function, it’s something they actively do.
Men are attractive, and it’s very much a side effect of what they do and who they are. It’s almost always second to their actions. It’s reinforcement.
The meek shall inherit the earth, but meek men won’t inherit sexual love. There’s no eros for the passive man, except as a rare fluke, or what’s called a mercy ****
Pheromones on men don’t actually attract action from women as much as they help to “seal the deal”, after the man himself acts/initiates. They help women (or whomever) to accept your advances.
On a woman, it’s different. Women Attract. Attraction for a woman is their form of aggression. They’re meant to be approached.
Women attract, men act.
Put another way…
Women Attract Men, Men Act towards Attractive Women.
Another…
Women Attract Men and Inspire Men to Act Towards them (and then Accept or Deny those Actions based on that man’s appeal/“attractiveness”), and Men Act towards Attractive Women
I’m just saying, if you want to get the kind of attention and responses that women typically get from men, you have your job cut out for you. I don’t accept that job. However, I’ll give you the easy to use tools require to figure that out for yourself.
On the other hand, if you want to drastically reduce rejection, and increase compliance with your requests and advances… then I am your guy, and I already have some of those solutions premixed in a bottle.
That’s hardly “mission impossible”.
Complete sex reversal is tough, though. Genetic role reversal is a giant hurdle - it’s an intense, probably unrealistic goal.
I think it’s somewhat possible with pheromones when you have an ultra-tailored, individual mix, but not completely.