I’m transgender, but I mostly look like a man, even though I typically wear androgynous and feminine clothing, or else punk or high fashion stuff (recently returned from Taiwan, have some custom pieces I wear, etc). I’ve been playing with some of the pheros you mention.
One, my first good combo, my first day out, was 1x25mcg TAL and 1xCTTM2. I had lots of IOI from young women at a college, though I didn’t get any attention from the uber-dyke I was hitting on. I also had a very confident and strong young woman just walk up to me and start talking while I was reading… and she let me do bodily adjustments on her to get her into a basic Qi Kung posture.
My feeling was that I had to make myself congruent with the TAL from the beginning. And it did require a shift into less masculine warmth and more cat-like slinkiness… I felt a lot more femme in the minutes after putting it on than before.
I’ve also found that what you’re saying with the COPs is right. A tiny bit excites straight girls towards me, and more starts to get straight men’s attention (which is good for me). I have also had a combo, I think it was just TAL and CTTM plus a little alcohol get an almost totally straight guy pawing all over me. So my experience is that people will “process” the feelings they get in a myriad of different ways.
TAL and CTTM2 is probably still my best mix for just getting everyone to start talking to me out of nowhere, while I feel sexy and confident.
I could see the TAL vibe working in a cat like sensuality for a man, too, though. Think of a vampire, or a lion… this COULD be very masculine. Not rough around the edges and grab someone and make her panties wet, but still bite his woman on the scruff of her neck in the heat of passion, after crawling all over her like a writhing dance of sexuality.
But that’s my kinda vibe anyway, when I get into a masculine role. My last girlfriend said sexual intercourse with me was like tribidism with her girlfriend from college. And that was before I ever mentioned being transsexual or anything… just something she kept saying she felt.
If I put it another way, what did Charlie Sheen say to John Malkovich in Being John M? “Hot Lesbian witches? John I’m telling you this as your friend – don’t let this one go.”
TAH (which I’ve only used in IS/B) is waaaay soft. I don’t know how this would be rolled into a masculine thing. Though if your girl was bi, or if you had a bi target, you might inspire her to treat you very differently. And why not? LOL, I’ll bet you’d love the way a girl kisses you when she loses track of you being “Mr. Man” . . .
For me the key to ALL this stuff is how I wrap myself around the different pheros. I’m finding that it isn’t a clear cut, one vibe thing either… but congruency is key. How YOU get congruent with TAL can differ from me or someone else. I am only new at this and I have a couple of different ways to sink into the basic vibe of it, but the basic vibe of it is always the same.
TAL is like a certain hot blouse by a great designer. Prince wears it differently than Angelina Jolie. But did you ever think Prince didn’t find what he wanted with a cute girl when he wanted one? Or Angelina for that matter if she wanted a girlfriend?
I’m about to go out dancing for spring equinox at a fashion party/rave thing… I’m wearing TAL at 25mcg, CTTMx2 (and bringing the bottle) and EST at 25mcg.
I’ll post in my pherotalk blog over in the women’s section tomorrow how it goes. I need to go get ready now.
–Jeannine
A Journey Towards Freedom (my non phero blog)