I would like to share with you a rather weird reaction I got with Instant Shine.
I went to a party at a company which I had visited often and where I was rather popular among the staff. There were a dozen or so people present, sitting around the table eating, drinking and chatting. All except one were female, some older, some younger, some prettier, some uglier, some I knew well, some I saw for the first time.
After a cordial welcome, I got something to eat and drink and sat down. As the party progressed, I began to notice that I was being ignored. Two discussion circles emerged on my left and on my right and I was in the middle, excluded from conversation. People would answer direct questions from me (sometimes after a second of hesitation), but otherwise I could just as well not have been there. On the right side, the girls closer to me even turned their backs on me. The girl on my left with whom I had had quite normal conversations on other occasions, turned away from me as much as she comfortably could. I commented on things she said something like four times and she didn’t even appear to hear me. (And when I met her the next day without Instant Shine, she was very talkative and jovial, an entirely different person!)
Later, I stood up and sat to another place, next to a girl. In a few minutes, she stood up and joined the people in another room. After a while, she returned to the table, but took a seat on the other end of the table, i.e. at the farthest point from me. Things got better when there were only four people left. A woman who had for the whole evening been at the distance of a couple of meters from me, made quite interesting conversation with me, and a girl I whom I knew best in that company moved closer to me and made conversation as well.
The party reminded me of something that had happened earlier on the same day. We had a modest birthday party at work. Something like eight people were standing in a circle, holding their glasses and making conversation for something like half an hour or less. I approached a girl who has been very friendly with me recently, and made conversation with her. She reacted quite normally at first, but in a couple of minutes, she walked away for no apparent reason. She didn’t leave the party, she just walked over to the other edge of the circle and stayed there for the rest of the party.
That evening, I was thinking that Instant Shine ought to be renamed into Invisible Man, as that was exactly how I felt. I quit using it because I really don’t want to go through another evening like this.
Now, before you LOL and shout OD, let me tell you about the dose: 1 spray on exposed skin at 8 o’clock in the morning, along with lightly scented Nivea aftershave; and 1 spray on clothes right before going to that party, that is at 5 o’clock in the evening. Had taken a shower in the morning and wore clothes I hadn’t worn for a while. If that’s an OD, I don’t know what would be an ND (normal dose).
More recently, I have twice observed a similar effect (although not nearly as extreme) with Chikara.
Experts: what does this experience tell you about my natural pheromone signature, and what pheromone product might have the kind of effect on me that Instant Shine was supposed to have?
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