So I tried IFM again today and my husband didn’t notice - he didn’t get to smell it until it had dried down 10 minutes or so. He has been acting a little depressed and aggravated today, though … hmm. He might be responding badly to it.
Remember, for legal purposes, we don’t add scent at all to IFM. The herbal package, if you get it, just happens to add it’s own scent. It doesn’t make the product into a fragrance, however. Due to restrictions, we can’t and don’t use it for it’s scent. They’re in there for for their effects on the psyche only, just like oil blends used for aromatherapy.
Unfortunately, lots of people (especially men) seem to vehemently hate the scent of many oils used in aromatherapy. I far prefer it to the scent of the pheromones alone, myself. I especially like the added effects of the natural oils. A1 doesn’t affect me in the best way, and the natural oils help to amelerioate that.
Seems like there’s no way for us to win with IFM. Either you have the pheromones alone with their own strong odor, or you have herbal additives that smell “too natural and earthy” for many people.
We have so many alternative pheromones now that don’t have awkward legal restrictions. I may end up dropping IFM in the near future.
Interesting. My bottle of Androstadienone from LS never had much scent at all, husband never noticed it, but it also didn’t work as well for me. Hmm.
It would be too bad if you dropped IFM/w. It’s easy enough to cover with one’s own fragrance, if it becomes an issue, but the odor of it dies away within 10 minutes anyway. I only told the story about goat piss because it made me laugh - it’s not a complaint!
I hate to sound like an ad for spring water, but “source matters”, and that’s a multibrand store. Not everything is the same quality.
Probably one of the better brands there, in terms of active product, is LaCroy. Dodd is great, too. On the other hand, the people who make their Androstadienone use many of the same false authority tricks that ANR Labs/Pherlure does. Despite those dirty tricks, some of their products somehow manage to be okay, but I’ve never seen anything mind blowing from them. They tend to put cost far above quality.
All manufacturers are quite different, and we take an extrremely different approach here that most wouldn’t care to. We sell the same Androstadienone molecule that’s used in most of the studies you’ve seen in peer reviewed literature. It’s the only American product available to the consumer market, and like most things made here in America, it’s not a cheap synthesis whatsoever.
You see, in my past work, I learned that pharmaceutical grade vitamin C from Hoffman-LaRoche is not the same as the often Chinese sourced version you find in most consumer grade vitamin formulas. With a mental enhancement nutriented like lecithin, you find Centrolex being used in successful studies on cognition enhancement, but a completely different grade bering used in most consumers products.
The difference? It couldn’t be bigger.
In practical terms, there’s all the difference in the world between the two grades. Sometimes the consumer grade has no “active product” at all (look up “hoodia fraud” on the internet sometime), instead of merely being weak and impure.
In your experience, you probably can’t tell when most consumer oriented vitamins are working. Most just aren’t good. On the other hand, you actually can feel a sort of kick, or even a sort of “High on nutrition” euphoria, not unlike a “runner’s high”, from high grade vitamins and nutrients. Yes, something as “pedestrian” as vitamin C, you can actually feel, when it’s a high quality synthesis. (I’d be happy to refer you to a brand that uses Hoffman-LaRoche vitamin C and other high quality, no cost spared nutrients by PM)
You see, good qualitty biochemicals of any kind are not “faith based” whatsoever, and that’s what I’ve sought to duplicate here. For our direct line, we’re able to put quality on a pedestal, and give you pheromones that give you a good swift biochemical kick. You might need good self and social awareness, but you sure as heck don’t need any faith or mental preprogramming to know our products are working. In fact, the more aware someone is, the more they like our products. (the less aware they are, the more they fall into hypnosis-heavy, con games like the Pherlure ads)
Anyway, like androstenone, androstadienone is just a stinky molecule. That’s it’s nature.
If you buy an analytical control from Sigma-Aldrich, it smells the same as what you’ll find in Instant Female Magic. With this molecule (and, not all, but most other pheromones), less smell = less actives (or what chemists call “less active product”).
Oh, okay… Well, there goes my failed attempt mind reading thing. I assumed too much, and did think it was a complaint. Sorry! 
So does it work well for you? You benefit in ways you don’t from anything else?
Unfortunately, I see that the “dour mood” effect on men isn’t completely ameliorated yet, based on what you’ve said about your husband reaction. That doesn’t make me happy, and is another reason I’ve been considering dropping this product. Even with all the work I’ve put into correcting the deficiencies of it’s key molecule, it seems it’s not enough.
I’d like to take pheromones in a more positive direction overall – for both sexes. The buckets of time and money I’ve thrown into Instant Female Magic, I could probably better invest elsewhere next time around. Working more on variations of the Liquid Sunshine mixes and developing some of the more upbeat putatives is a much more appealing proposition to me.
Well, Michael, I’d say your buckets of time and money have paid off in a fantastic product. If it’s not making money for you yet, it’s only because of lack of exposure in the marketplace.
I would appreciate this information, too, when you have time. Thanks!
Three up!
I have no complaints about IFM. I got the large bottle with the clary sage herbal and it’s fime with me. I just got the To Go size, which I tried today. No complaint from me on that one either (but I was also wearing Shine and IOpen).
I vote to keep IFM in the product line if you can, and please continue to offer both with and without herbal package.
Thanks.
Wowzas! You were super-thorough with your description and explanation of Instant Female Magic! Thank you so much for clarifying some little questions I was going to ask myself! Reps to you!