# Let's take a scentimental journey **URL:** \ **Category:** Women's Journals\ **Created:** [September 21, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/lets-take-a-scentimental-journey/56798 "2012-09-21T01:45:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Spinach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/spinach/32/348_2.png) [@Spinach](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Spinach)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/lets-take-a-scentimental-journey/56798/5 "2012-09-21T19:07:13Z")
Good times with [Instant Shine](https://a314.com/product/shine/) & self effects. 🙂 _From previous notes…_\*\* 18/09/2012\*\* This morning I decided to try out some Instant Shine. I did two sprays to each wrist, covered with Acqua di Gioia shortly afterward. I’m usually in a good mood and often have a smile on my face, but I felt like it came a little more naturally this morning. It was pretty subtle; I don’t think I would’ve realised this if I’d been blind-testing. I had History first, and although the class atmosphere is usually quite good, I felt like the general mood was very light and easy-going, especially noticeable about 20 minutes into the lesson. I have a suspicion that even the teacher and the rows on his side (I sit on the left, he sits on the right) were affected! My friends sitting on the opposite side leaned over to look at me while laughing about something, which usually doesn’t happen. We are already a very jokey class, but there were two moments in-between jokes today that might usually have just been quiet or, but instead of trailing off laughter, they were filled with another bout of chuckles and giggles. I felt more giggly myself, even though I was just as tired as when I woke up. I didn’t notice any extra ‘alertness’ as I did when I tried to test for self-effects. I need to test Shine more consistently to make sure, but I felt like one of my guy friends was responding particularly well to me - he was sitting to my left, facing me (our desks are placed like this:┢). I’d like to test this one out more, to see if it gives consistent results, and make sure I’m not just making something out of nothing. I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary for classes after that first one, but then again I wasn’t looking as closely, either, I suppose, because I assumed that Instant Shine wouldn’t last that long. **19/09/2012** One spray to each wrist today, with Acqua di Gioia as usual. In the car on the way to school, Dad seemed to be in a better mood after a few minutes - or at least, he poked my arm and start talking about things; usually the car ride is relatively quiet. I didn’t really notice anything in first period, because I was sitting off to myself by the windows, and we were working independently on laptops. History was fun again, but it usually is - we had another ‘giggle-filler’ moment but there were more notes to copy down today so not as jokey. Once again, I felt myself smiling more quickly and easily - as if my face muscles were relaxed, more ‘ready’ to smile. I’ve read IS/b being compared to ‘slipping into warm water’ and that’s kind of what I felt like while I was sitting in assembly. A calm, quiet, rather _peaceful_ state of mind, like sitting in warm water. Subtle, not sparkly shiny excitement, like I’d imagined Shine to be! But it’s nice, and I’m happy that I seem to be getting self-effects at all. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/lets-take-a-scentimental-journey/56798)._