Hello, I’m a 57 year old female from the beautiful hills of Mendocino county. My long-standing interest in things olfactory has gone from deeply exploring essential oils and aromatherapy, to growing over 300 roses, to (most recently) developing a passion for fine perfumes and fragrances. I stumbled upon this website and am intrigued by the confluence of the sense of smell, memory, emotions, the limbic system and the subconscious in pheromones. I’m curious to learn more and perhaps doing a little personal experimenting.
Heya rosaflamenca … I’d love to be visiting Mendocino right now.
These are the psychoactive perfumes of nature; you’re in the right place to chalk up experiments and share the results. Good people here.
Perhaps you’ll tell us a bit more about what you’d like to discover / play with first.
Hey rosaflamenca - love your username! That’s a Rosine I haven’t met yet.
You’ve got such a rich background from which to approach pheromone use. It will be cool to find out what new worlds open up for you! Let us know if we can help you get there.
Hi, thanks for the welcome! Mark, I had dinner with some folks from Chicago last night and was remembering what a culturally rich place it is (if frigid right now)! Carrie, I can’t wear the Rosine’s very well for some reason, though there are definitely some wonderful rose-based scents in my perfume cupboard. I chose that name because of my passionate involvement in flamenco dance and cante!
It was really serendipitous that I linked to this site, because I think it is a topic of which I will naturally become fascinated, but would never have come to that conclusion without a bit of inspiration. One of the most profound effects of plant pheromones I have experienced is the huge rose garden of a dear local friend. It’s truly a wonder, and famous among the rose crowd internationally. There are well over 1,000 roses (and many more companion plants and flowers), some of them the gigantic ramblers that most of us cannot accomodate in our gardens. During peak bloom, when there are literally hundreds of thousands of roses blooming, visitors to the garden are swept into an ecstacy. Literally, people are walking around completely blissed out. Part of it is the visual splendor, but Pamela and I are convinced that the roses themselves are emitting ephemyral and mind-altering substances along with their perfumes! Rose otto or perfumes never produce the same effect in me as burying my nose in a highly fragrant rose.
I’m definitely a fiery and emotional person, and I am very interested in the potential for helping incline myself to states that I would like better than the ones I might automatically revert to under stress or ennui. I’d love to rekindle a little sexual fire in my 20 year marriage, be a bit more peaceful in the face of stress and teenaged sons, I could use more bliss, more often!
Sounds like I have some new fun ahead for 2007! Thanks for this great resource. Happy and healthy blessings to all, and our world in the new year!
WOAH! Wait a minute… Your not a 57 year old female. On the contrare, Your a 57 year young female. Hope you stay as vibrant as ever and welcoming you aboard 
It’s anything but frigid here so far this winter, Rose-Dancer (knocks on wood), we’ve had but one or two nights where the temperatures have dipped below 32F.
The joke is that this year, even the grass is green this Christmas.
However, please ignore that man behind the curtain making inflamed speeches about Global Warming – that whole magilla is nothing but a bunch of bleeding heart liberal hooey! 
Thank you for the reminder about being young, not old! One of the great things about never really having grown up is … I don’t have to pretend I’m an old lady…Yessss! Well, here in balmy NorCal, we’ve had many, many nights in the low 20s already, so please Mark, come and fetch home your weather!
Susan
Susan, you’re FANTASTIC. 57 year young, indeed!!!
Next time I’m in Norcal, you’re taking me here!!! When is peak bloom? I want to walk around blissed out! I want to compare it to pheromone feelings..
You’re going to have so much fun here, I know it. There’s a gift cert waiting for you in your inbox!
Depending upon the weather in the spring, peak bloom for Red Rose Ridge’s particular microclimate is usually around the beginning of June. If we have a very mild and warm spring, or very cold and wet, it could be a few weeks earlier or later. There is always one day during peak bloom that the garden is open to friends and rose lovers, but I go there as often as I can. Thanks for the gc; I’ll be trying to do a little research in the next week or two so I can get my bearings. Happy new year!