This is my first ever report. Thanks to my uni schedule and a mountain of coursework, I don’t have much human contact every day, so I only wear pheros when it’s likely to be worth it. You’ll notice that my reports centre around time spent in class, my social schedule’s been pretty dead lately, but I should have some more varied environments soon. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
Testing: MX135 To-go
Scent: Don’t know which one it is, but it’s reminiscent of almond essence. Very strong at first, but gets milder quickly and is then quite pleasant.
Duration: Can’t be sure when the effects fully wore off, but I refreshed it with a couple of sprays after about 3 hours
Day 1: 3 sprays – 1 to hair, 2 to chest
Environment: Small computer lab, casual atmosphere (not a class), roughly 5 other people there
Self effects: Spontaneous smiling after a couple of minutes. Felt quite cheery
Effects to others: A guy I know from class but don’t really chat to seemed chattier than usual. Also got me to watch a video he had running on his computer.
I ran into a lecturer whose class I had missed the previous day, he was very nice when I explained the situation and seemingly bought my really weak excuse
Day 2: 4 sprays – 1 to hair, 2 to chest, 1 split between wrists
Environment: Small seminar room for a class. Approx 15 people there
Self effects: Had trouble paying attention (maybe the class was just boring).
Felt a bit giggly and giddy
Effects to others: A guy I’d been flirting with sat beside me, was leaning towards me on occasion and smiled at me whenever our eyes met
General atmosphere seemed to get more casual over time
The people sitting nearest to me were also having trouble paying attention.
Environment: Chatting after class and walking home
Effects to others: None noticed
Day 3: 4 sprays – 1 to hair, 1 to chest, 1 to neck, 1 split between wrists
Environment: Medium-sized lecture hall. Approx 30 people there
Self effects: Felt more positive than I normally would going to that lecture
Difficulty paying attention
Effects to others: Someone I don’t speak to very much struck up a conversation before class
Environment: Patio of a café. 3 other people there
Effects to others: Two female classmates started commenting (positively) on my appearance
Environment: Outdoor fruit & veg market
Pheros were probably wearing off by that point, so not much discernable effect
The guy I like seemed to be quite keen to chat with me
Day 4: 4 sprays (as before) and top-up 2 hours later with another spray to chest
Environment: Small study room for a study group, 3 other people there
Self effects: Felt a bit giggly, had trouble taking things seriously
Effects to others: None noticed
Environment: Café, 1 other person there (the object of my desires)
Effect to others: He seemed to be hovering closer to me than normal. Got right up close to me and started making suggestions as to what food to order
Environment: Large computer lab, approx 40 people there. Practise session
**Effect to others:**The guy I like chose to sit beside me and suggested that we work together on the assignment. He had no trouble with the topic, so this was seemingly for my benefit.
He was chatty the whole way through (he normally listens to music so he can concentrate on what he’s doing), the conversation seemed to flow more freely than usual and he seemed more open
Environment: Walking home (just me and the guy)
Conversation flowed easily and he stood outside my apartment building chatting with me for a couple of minutes even though he was clearly freezing his ass off
Day 5: 4 sprays – 1 each on chest, neck and hair, with 1 split between wrists. Top-up 3 hours later with a spray to the chest and wrists
Environment: Small classroom
**Self effects:**Reasonably good mood
Less tired than I would normally be when running on 4 hours of sleep
Effect to others: People seemed to be finding me more approachable than usual. Within a few minutes of applying MX135, a classmate was pouring her heart out to me about how overwhelmed she feels by the coursework
The mood seemed to lift while we were all chatting before class started, people seemed cheerier after a few minutes
Environment: Yet another small classroom (most of my reports are from an academic setting, you’ve probably noticed that)
Effect to others: Once again, the guy I like sat beside me and immediately started telling me about the weekend he’d spent with some relatives, going into quite a lot of detail about the family dynamic. He then apologised for not sending me an article summary that would’ve been helpful in the upcoming class (he had never actually said he’d send me the summary).
I noticed the guy leaning towards me quite a few times during the class.
He and I were chatting after class and we both felt able to speak more openly about academic stresses and our methods of dealing with them. Overall, the quality of our conversations seems to have improved and moved to a more personal nature since I started using the MX135
In summary:
Based on what others have written, I was expecting to get the WOW effect from MX135, so I was a little disappointed when the only effects I really noticed was increased approachability and the tendency of others to open up to me on a personal level. I thought that was what Instant Openness and Instant Honesty were for. Initially, I didn’t think I was getting any hits, but looking back on it I can see that people were more responsive to me, keener on actually being around me and more likely to tell me things you’d normally only tell a close friend. Essentially, it increased social attractiveness rather than romantic or sexual. It’s entirely possible that this is all down to environment, an academic setting isn’t exactly conducive to enticing the opposite sex. It also seemed to have a mood-elevating effect on others as conversations rapidly turned sillier and more upbeat when I was involved (although I like to walk on the silly side of life anyway, so maybe that was just my own influence).
So yeah, I’m happy with MX135, just not quite as happy as I’d expected from the rave reviews people have been giving. Hopefully I’ll figure out my own balance before to long and then I can have my WOW effect
(That was a long one, can you tell that I do research as part of my degree?
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