Hello,
I wander how many people here can’t smell androstadienone (unscented Instant Female Magic). I am one of them. When i smell open bottle, I can only smell the smell of alcohol. In Turn Up The Heat I only smell added scent, I can’t smell androstenone either. For me it is quite frustrating, I wish I had better sense of smell… In this post I will not talk about effects, but only about the smell of pheros.
So the story is… I put 2 sprays of Instant Female Magic to the back of my head and went to work. I work with couple of people in the same room. During the day, one of my best female friends, who work for the same company as I do, entered the room and talked to one of my colleagues for couple of minutes. Two hours later we had lunch together, as we usually do. She is the only person besides my GF who knows that I’m using pheros. So, sometimes I talk to her about them, cause she seems to be interested. That day, I asked her to smell my application point and tell me if she can smell anything. Her first reaction was “IT WAS YOU !!!” and started to explain me that when she entered the room that day, she was able to smell it from the doors (I sit about 5 meters from there) she was wandering who stinks so badly in our room (I applied only two sprays). She described it as very intense and unpleasant smell of homeless person that never showers. We were talking about that for couple of minutes, and that topic in our conversation ended with her teasing me like “poor your colleagues who work in your room” 
Since my sense of smell is obviously fu**ed up, I wanted to do the test with her. I made paper samples of IFM, Turn Up The Heat, Ammo and A314 and asked her to smell each sample and tell me how much she like/dislike it.
For Ammo she told me that it was nice.
TUTH was: “like when you don’t shower for couple of days and than apply parume on dirty body”.
IFM was “like homeless person - disgusting”.
A314 was like “absolutely disgusting, I can’t smell this sample one more time, cause I’ll puke” (I don’t know if I have smelly edition of A314, since this is my first bottle and I can’t compare - it was shipped on 16 Nov 2007). For me it smells unpleasant but not so much. That test occurred on second day of her menstrual cycle (second day of period)
I repeated the test about 12 days later (while she was in fertile days), and result was similar, but I would say that her dislike feeling of TUTH and IFM was a bit milder, she even said that she kinda like the smell of TUTH in spite of swaety component. for A314 her comment was the same (take it away I’ll puke). She seems to be the person with very sensitive sense of smell.
So, I’m thinking about covering the smell of IFM. Some people cover it by spaying application point with additional layer of cologne. Others mix in vial and apply the mix. On Androtics site it is said like “added scent helps diffusion”. Some people say if it smels nice, people will try to inhale more (more scent, but also more pheros).
My idea is to mix it in vial with some of my favorite colognes (Versace Dreamer or BlueJenas) in ratio 1 part of cologne mixed with 3-5 parts of IFM. I think it is good idea to add pleasant component to it, which will partially cover the bad smell. On the other hand there must be the reason why it is originally designed without additional scent. Above that, one very respectable member here advised me in private conversation “don’t cover it”. Some people say in older threads “IFM has to be covered as it stinks so badly”. I believe that mixing in vial is better than mixing on the skin for the reason that in vial you have better control of ratio of components and it is repeatable. The bottom line is that I don’t like the idea of smelling bad, but I also wander will I make it less effective if covered. I’d like to hear more opinions.
BTW, there is one very interesting scientific article about the smell of androstadienone and how people perceive it. If you are interested in this topic, it is worth to read: http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/31/1/3
best regards,
–nicos
