Myself: athletic, mid-40s, married 20+ years
What: 2-3 sprays MX 272 from a 30 ml bottle
I wore this twice over 2 sprays of Instant Gentleman and once over 2 drops of A314. I rotate between the Instant Gentleman and A314 as my “base” during the day so people are used to both signatures.
Background: I needed to get some stuff done that was going to require a lot of cooperation from people to include them doing things that they normally did not do. No - nothing sexual you fiends 
- but definitely an event that needed to happen.
What happened: I tried this the first two days with Instant Gentleman and the third with A314. It surprisingly worked better for me with the Instant Gentleman.
As I went to different people in different organizations trying to get everything lined up, I got a lot of empathy. People seemed to really care about what I was trying to get done. I also got a lot of good conversation about what I was trying to do. It was very similar to the conversations I get with IH as opposed to the general chatter of IO. People were definitely focused on the situation at hand.
Most people were also helpful. Most … a couple were very helpful, most helped somewhat, a few were empathetic but could not/would not assist. While people were empathetic it did not necessarily translate into them going above and beyond to help across the board. Only one person did so. Most of the rest did what they could. One did nothing as it seemingly was going to take too much effort for them. I guess they felt their butt had been created to keep that chair stuck down in place … 
One person I had to stop and talk with went on for some time about a mutual friend of ours who was leaving. We went on for some time talking about this individual. For the other person, their level of emotion seemed to hit the point that is was almost like this person had died rather than leving. Very interesting.
The second day I thought would go better with 2 drops of A314. Stronger leader vibe, more empathy towards my task. I was very surprised when things seemed to go surprisingly poorly.
People were much less helpful. At one point a group of 2 females and 1 male I had to interact with basically ignored me part of the time and when they did interact with me it was in a very condescending fashion. This never happens to me. I hid it but I was truly shocked and had to keep myself from getting very irritated to say the least.
I will keep testing this one some more. I have read some good reviews on this (Renny, etc.) and want to see if I can make it work for me. And my apologies for not going into more detail but … it is the nature of the beast.
What I get out of this so far is an increased amount of empathy from other people. They really seem to care about you or what is going on. In one case it really brought out feelings about a friend leaving. It also seems to increase conversation - a lot of deeper “IH” kind of conversation about the subject.
For those of you who are new, the thing to take away from this is that we all have different body chemistries. The pheros - especially the “experimental” products - the MXes and putatives - may well react slightly differently from one person to the next. You are not guaranteed to get the exact same result as the last person who used it. Even experienced users have to work with some products to find out how it best works for them. And sometimes certain products are just not “you”.
