Well, I haven’t been wearing pheros that much recently - but what I have done is tested out the free to-go Spaceland I got with my last order, 1, 2 or 3 sprays at a time. So I have gone through about 1/2 of the to-go. It’s a funny old smell BTW!
This stuff serves as a reminder that context is everything. Because I have worn it while sitting around the house on my own, watching DVDs and stuff, and in such circumstances it has a mild sort of effect (but noticeable). But it takes on a different character should I go out anywhere while wearing it. 2 sprays of Spaceland and a trip down to the pub, or just going out for a walk, is a very different story. The environment, and the fact of other people being around, seem to make an important difference to the self-effects of alpha-androstenol, in any significant dosage.
There has been a thread or two mentioning the “quasi-mystical” effects of beta-androstenol, which I have enjoyed myself. Well, I’d just like to mention alpha-androstenol in this regard too… at comparable doses (50-100 mcg) it, for me anyway, has some sort of mystical quality to it, but one different to betanol, which is often regarded as a “deep” pheromone.
I originally thought that alphanol had a more “shallow” quality, but I don’t think this is entirely true anymore. I’ll just call it an “extroverted” quality - in that Myers-Briggs sense of the word, where attention is turned “outward”. And I suppose this may be a quasi-mystical experience for anyone who is classed as “introverted” in that M-B typology (which doesn’t mean “shy” or “unsociable”, as in the mainstream use of the word; it means more like someone who enjoys their own internal dialogue a lot
). Or, IOW, it’s an eye-opener and an insight into how “the other half lives”, LOL.