I’ve never been the type of guy who wears cologne. I only sprayed one shot of instant openness to the back of my hands, and I felt it was too strong (I was unintentionally smelling it for hours). This made me self-conscious around others, and I began thinking that I was stinking up the room.
I know I am probably paranoid, or just not used to scents, but how on earth do you guys manage to layer like 5 shots of this or that and not feel like a scent factory? I really don’t mean any offense, but do you ever suspect that others think you’ve taken that proverbial “french bath”?
I couldn’t get enough of the Neroli scent on my self, it was subtle but not weak smelling, if you know what I mean. I was kinda’ the opposite, I found myself being paranoid that the scent had worn off too fast, so would keep smelling myself to make sure it was still there! 
You should try 4 sprays of Ammo just before you leave the house. That stuff is so potent (20% compared to the 6%) that you can smell me from far away in the first 30 minutes after application 
What I usually do is let the strong odors diffuse. After taking a bath and before I get dressed I immediately spray myself with some pheromones, and after half hour I am ready to leave the house and the smell is much less. At that time you still smell the spray but its not that potent in its smell. Much better than spraying and smelling directly afterwards. I get the biggest self-effects in those first 30 minutes of application.
Five shots…! 
You hve a lot to learn!
More seriously, Neroli (scent of all the instants) is a light one and will settle light around half an hour after application, to the point where you and people exposed to it should barely notice it. It will help if you can simply stop thinking about it and sniffing constantly. That only draws attention to you and makes you dwell on the stuff - which is far less of a strong scent than many popular colognes.
Also, in the right environment, women are surprisingly fond of a pronounced scent on a guy, esp when it mingles with just the right mount of “healthy” body-odour (ie not stale/unwashed!).
So, stinking-up the room a little is exactly what you want to do. 
Agreed. The smell may seem like overkill at first spray, but it mellows down quickly. Also, keep in mind that if anyone can smell it, then they are drawing your pheros into their nose. So more smell means more effects. Even if someone momentarily thought that the fragrance was a bit strong, within moments they will start to associate that smell with the feelings it gives them. After that point, the more the merrier.
I felt a little awkward wearing IO today, worried that people could smell it because I was nearly choking on how strong it smelled. I have a very very sensitive sense of smell (can smell food through a sealed plastic bag) so maybe that contributed to my paranoia. Funny thing though is that I actually love the smell of mx297 and can’t stop smelling the spray nozzle, it doesn’t bother me as much as IO does, and IO doesn’t smell as strong . Who knows, perhaps I’m wired strangely.
I don’t think you are strange. I am the same way with straight TAL, my nose wants to devour it. And yet, every now and then I’ll stumble across a mix that repels me.
I have the same effects with some of the putatives. Every time I put them on my wrist and then smell them I have this strange effect of stroking my wrist with my head, like I am a big cat wanting to get some attention. Bit like cats that are rubbing against your legs when you are making their dinner… Only happens in the first 10 minutes, after that I seem to just get relaxed and I regain control over myself (could also be related to the fact that my gf calls me “kitty” sometimes).
The only reaction I’ve ever gotten to someone noticing the scent is along the lines of “what smells so amazing!?!” then they follow their nose until they figure out it’s me. Then they ask what I’m wearing that smells so amazing. I give some vague answer.
I get the best reactions to Akuto and Neroli.
Akuto is great if you want to be conspicuous.
IG in Akuto custom scent was amazing, for example. - the richness is well-suited to it’s charismatic qualities.
The others people are more opinionated about - I don’t like F22 much for ex. but F21 has gone over really well with everyone.
The only negative comment I’ve ever gotten about the smell was from freshly-sprayed neroli when my friend was bitching out. We were at her house making dinner, and we were about to watch a movie. She was all up in my business, criticizing everything I did, and being a total bitch. I went and sat on the couch, and sprayed some p130. She came and sat down before it had a chance to settle, and said, “What smells like piss?” I played dumb, and she proceeded to sniff around and find the piss. Luckily, after a few minutes, the p130 took effect and she started acting like the fun friend I usually know her to be.
Moral of the story: try to let the stuff dry down before others smell it, but effects trump smell in the end.
Lol she sounds like a turd !
Yeah, she’s my “difficult friend”. Actually, I have 2 of those. But she turns into a bitch whenever she gets stressed, which happens a lot. I have stepped back from being around her very much.