How much do you guys rub the -mones into your skin after you’ve applicated a spray?
Rub it in till your fingers are dry or just once or twice over?
Many thanks,
Matt
im interested to hear the replies myself .
i dont rub them in at all.
It just hit me this morning when reading an old post where the guy said he was glad there was minimal “dripping”. I was so used to “rubbing it in” from using drop based products that I wanted to check what the consensus here was.
Matt
I’ve heard pretty mixed reviews about “rubbing it in”.
On one hand you have the fragrance gurus like Michael Edwards stating in Harpers Bazaar saying to NEVER rub your wrists together “Because you’ll bruise the fragrance notes and dull their development.” They say it crushes some of the more delicate fragrance molecules and alters the perception of the fragrance.
(Maybe Carrie, with her vast pefumery knowledge can help explain if this is true or not.)
I, personally, feel uncomfortable rubbing it in becuase of this advice. Am I destroying precious phero molecules by the seemingly innocuous friction when I rub my wrists together? Ahh!
I usually give myself a good spritzing and leave it at that. I stand in the fragrance mist shower for a few seconds, just to make sure I catch all the falling molecules on my skin. I try to get maximum skin coverage from my sprays, just to make sure there is lots of me to diffuse from. I usually do this by sort of “painting” sprays onto myself in broad strokes, as opposed to fixing the sprayhead 3" from my skin, in one direct shot.
Edwards and others recommend to let your own natural body warmth heat up the fragrances and let them lift to nose level on their own. Hey, we recommend the same thing when we’re telling you guys to apply wherever you feel a pulse, or wherever its warm. Heat means diffusion, diffusion means molecules in people’s noses, meaning greater effects!
I never realised how quickly the spray dries on the skin; just experimented with two sprays of P79 with zero rubbing in. Hectic!
Matt
Serious!
They dry especially fast when you do the “Spray Dry Faster” Dance! (Basically you twirl around in half jumping jack fashion. 
2 sprays P79? I bet it got you reallly focused on how fast it took to dry
I think a little rubbing might cause some of the molecules to “stick” to the skin a bit harder, heh. But I don’t think molecules “bruise” at the atomic level.
I think that “bruising the fragrance notes” is a metaphor – and maybe a bit of urban legend!
I don’t rub phero’s at all, same also with colognes or musks.
I vary the distance of spray to cover more or less skin. If it is drops, I ‘transfer’ by just touching, eg., from one wrist to another.
I’ve read the same advise Jasmin mentioned above, and it seemed credible with experimentation. I found that rubbing deminishes the scent and/or effect.
Yeah, you can’t crush or bruise molecules by rubbing. I think the fragrance industry just hands out that bit of rationalization to discourage you from rubbing, which doesn’t help a fragrance in any way; if anything the extra heat rushes the drydown and you miss the unfolding of top and middle notes.
There’s no good reason to rub in your pheros or your cologne. Spray broadly from a distance as Jasmin says and let it air dry. If it’s an oil like A314, just gently spread it out on your skin, don’t rub it in. Diffusion is the whole point here, so you don’t want to drive it deep into your skin.
If you think your pheros aren’t lasting long enough on your skin, apply some oil or lotion to your skin after your shower. Then when you’ve cooled off apply pheros as usual.
ok thanks for the advice one and all; will give it all a try and see how I go.
Matt
I guess I wont rub them in anymore then.
me neither! lol
really glad i dared to ask a silly question!
Matt
I generally “wipe” but don’t really “rub” pheromones or colognes. Oil-based like a314 gets dripped on wrist then spread around. Sprays often get sprayed say on neck then I wipe/spread with back of hand/wrist to even it out and get a bit on the hands as well. Pheromones etc applied to other parts of the body (eg chest) are usually in spray form and I just let it air dry. Liquids like Pheromol Factor (an old one, since replaced with another product) also get spread around, but not “rubbed” with any real pressure.
Personally I think the “bruising” bit is silly anyway. If the product is that delicate I don’t think I’d want it.
My opinion.
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