I’d like to invite everyone to chime in with their current thoughts about P74’s effects and the best dosage range. I’ll go into detail here about my own, but feel free to be very brief in your responses.
I’ve been trying P74 at 50mcg on my wrists. All the hits I’ve gotten have been consistent with being “old friends”. In once case, just after putting it on (while it was still wafting strong) I looked at this woman and we both swore we knew each other from way back and spent 5 minutes trying to figure it out. At this far remove, I’m convinced it was the P74.
I can certainly see how people would describe this as “cool” or “rapport”, but I feel it as distinctly different. I see it very specifically as “I know you well enough to trust you not to hurt me emotionally” or more simply “relax, you’re among friends.” I can say what I want and I know you’ll take it the right way and won’t use it against me or make me feel bad for having said it. I don’t get the feeling of trust that would make it OK to lend you my car, I don’t get the deep rapport where I want to mirror and agree with you on everything, and I don’t feel a sense of I want to be like you that I get around cool people. I get the feeling of trust that I get when hanging out with old college buddies.
As for P74 being sexual (as in erotic, not as in masculine or feminine), I’d say that in creating that kind of emotional trust and comfort, it is pro-sexual but anti-tension, which means it works differently than “animal lust”. It’s the deeper kind of sexual attraction that you hear people who have been together for over a decade talk about. It doesn’t explode your brain, it melts your heart.
(Of course, keep in mind that it’s only a pheromone and not as powerful of an influence as I’m describing. I’m just talking about direction.)
Thinking about humans on the evolutionary scale, we’ve been tribal and other tribes were dangerous so we relied on our own tribe for our very survival. As we grew up in a tribe, we’d imprint on sort of the tribal pheromone signature, just the way we imprint on physical racial traits. P74 for me goes right to that part of the brain that says “this is a trusted member of my tribe.”
Now personally, I can’t tell if that’s because it is evocative of my actual tribal signature (white European) or because it bypasses the system and goes directly to stimulating the tribal recognition area of the brain. Either seems plausible, and so far all my hits have been with white Europeans, and I have noted reports on the forum that P74 makes some people uncomfortable, which may be because it signals “other tribe” to them. I’d love for other people to share their thoughts.
As for dosage, 50 mcg seems like a ridiculous amount of a pheromone and I only tried it because many reports were around this range. I have to say, though, that it doesn’t seem like an OD and it does seem much more effective than 12.5 mcg which is what I tried before. I’m going to run out of my little bottles soon at this rate and would like to hear more about people using less before I shell out for the big bottle at 50 mcg.