# ntk23's journal

**URL:** <https://pheromonetalk.com/t/ntk23s-journal/17219>\
**Category:** Men's Journals\
**Created:** [August 9, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/ntk23s-journal/17219 "2008-08-09T23:48:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![ntk23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/65b543/32.png) [@ntk23](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/ntk23)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/ntk23s-journal/17219/6 "2008-08-11T16:38:15Z")

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Well, I had to take care of some business today in a reasonably busy and  
well-populated conurbation, so I decided to combine it with more experiments. 2 sprays of Turn Up The Heat and 2 [Instant Openness](https://a314.com/product/instant-openness/). My first mix. Yeah I know, not very businesslike 🙂

The first 30 minutes I didn’t get any self-effects; I was just thinking “OMG I  
stink”. Then the Turn Up The Heat kicked in. I felt the Instant Openness kick in after maybe an hour. I  
like this mix. Maybe give it another spray of Instant Openness next time. Nothing really  
outstanding in the “hits from other people” department, be they positive or  
negative. But I was sure having fun. It was a bad-weather day again, which has probably made people a bit more insular and gloomy.

_[addendum: A police car drove past me, this is when I first started feeling the Turn Up The Heat effect, and I got that weird, self-consciously paranoid sort of feeling, haven’t had that since I was a teenager, LOL]_

I noticed that I was feeling very impatient, while waiting in the queue for  
the cash machine and things like that. But, strangely, I could quite easily  
dispel the impatience just by an act of will. Knowing what is most likely the  
strongest contributory factor to the impatience and then being able to change state is weird, but very useful!

There was a woman standing on the street outside a shop smoking a cigarette, quite pretty too. I wasn’t after sarging her or anything, just flexing my social skills, and I felt well up for the approach. Had I got the slightest eye contact from her, I would have opened - I was feeling very confident. However, that EC wasn’t forthcoming - she seemed to look elsewhere rather pointedly. How very British 🙄

I picked up a couple of aromatherapy oils from a pharmacy too, I got ylang ylang, easier to type than to pronounce 🙂, and frankincense. Yeah, they’ll mask anything LOL. So I slapped some of the ylang ylang on myself. (If anyone else is reading this: firstly, thanks for reading. Secondly, I just apply the oils directly to my skin - which you’re _not supposed to do_ - but I don’t get any adverse effects from it. Your mileage may vary).

_[addendum: [this thread about mixing oils and sprays](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/oil-vs-spray/13011) is very informative]_

Well, I smelt pretty good after this, and I was basking in my own fragrance… I actually prefer these EOs to cologne or anything like that myself, I like some unusual scents, and it’s like an olfactory ‘peacocking’ effect. Returning to my home town, I had a conversation with an old bloke I know that was quite unusual in how long it went on, we just say ‘hello’ to each other usually. Now that is quite interesting.

_[addendum: I am pleased that so far, wearing the TUTH doesn’t seem to make me an antagonistic figure to dogs. I usually get on with dogs - indeed, I’m hoping to bump into some hot chick out walking a dog at some point soon (ideal opener!) - and there has been no hostility from the canine population so far.]_

The willingness to approach I felt before - well I am feeling pretty pleased  
about that. I have always had pretty good social skills, but the TUTH/IO -  
probably more the IO - seem to have lifted them over a certain threshold  
today. And it’s a non-linear system as well, where crossing this threshold  
will help me network like a pro if this keeps up. I know people say the  
self-effects wear off, or maybe they just get used to them? So that the  
initial rush of extra social competence becomes a new baseline level that doesn’t seem unusual to the wearer. Anyway, the additional cover scents are going to help loads with my proximity issues as well, LOL.

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