My third order came in, a couple of experimones (beta-androstenol @ 10mcg, A1 @ 5mcg) and something from the putative menu (P79 @ 2.5mcg) and - wahey! - a lovely freebie of to-go P74 (@ 10mcg) too 
, which I’ve been reading up on.
So I first sprayed two sprays of (regular) IO to the sides of my neck and then added to each side a spray of betanol; thinking that the high alphanol and fragrance in the IO might prime the betanol a bit, and trying to get a handle on the difference from IO alone. I sprayed a third spray of betanol to my throat, and rubbed some on my hand so I could smell it raw and unadulterated during the day.
The smell. This is gonna sound weird, but it is like a “non-smell” to me, I mean I don’t smell anything, but I sniff at it and something happens, and it’s something associational. It is reminding me of a whole Gestalt of things that is quite hard for me to pin down at the moment, but the memory/state clearly goes way back to when I was a child, and it is nice.
I’m getting a feeling very much like my first ever IO tryout (which was my first ever phero-tryout), but more mellow, for sure. Strikingly similar is the organic, but not unpleasant aftertaste in my mouth, and the feeling of being pulled in two directions. What I mean by the latter is: I’m keen to go out and mingle to check things out, but I’ve been playing music while getting ready, which is starting to sound really awesome, and I also want to stop and listen to more! These things I remember vividly from my first IO experience.
More self-effects: once I’m outside I’m constantly thinking “Do I know him/her? He/she reminds me of somebody…” - everyone seemed familiar.
I went to the usual coffee shop, to a rather deserted pub and just walked around the park again: I did get smiled at by a few women in the street, in a way that gives me slight pause. It seems like they initiated the eye contact and smiling rather than me. And we’re talking like split-second differences in timing, but these, I think, are significant in nonverbal terms. And I chatted to a few friends, but nothing out of the ordinary there that I spotted.
Ummm… I felt a bit naked actually without any A314 on (I’ve been wearing at least 1 drop per day for the past week)… But still, I do like this particular vibe . I would like it if the strange “non-smell” was as evocative for others as it is for me, and in a good way too. That’d give me a heck of a leverage with anything from sarging to business applications to just making people feel good.
Which reminds me, I really should read Proust’s “À la recherche du temps perdu” properly one time, and not just the bluffer’s guide version with the famous passages in, LOL 