I tested A314 and Instant Shine during the latter half of the day today (1pm until 2-3am). I will remain as objective as possible.
I intended to use A314 at my intership during the week. I have shifts at the law library for additional income, so I decided to try A314 there. I was not expecting anything because I work the circulation desk, all you do is sit down at the desk; there is not much interaction with people. Indeed, I did not notice anything either. I wanted to understand application and dosing of A314 and acclamate myself to the smell, etc. This I was able to achieve.
Two things about A314: 1) the substance was not as viscous as expected. Being an oil, I expected A314 to drop a bit slower than it did, and 2) I was taken aback by the smell a little bit. It smells like a melange of body odor and herbs. It smells fine in the bottle, but on the skin it becomes a different animal. After about four hours, it died down though. Not worried about the smell though, because it did not disperse widely. People would have to be getting a good snort of my wrist or my neck to notice the smell.
Around midnight my friend Drew called me out to the bars. I applied some Instant Shine–the Neroli smells awesome by the way. I was exhausted after my circ desk shift (have not been sleeping properly lately) so I slept until midnight. I know I should be testing one phero at a time, and if possible, one phero for one week, then switch, etc. But, I’ve read that A314 lasts 6-8 hours, and I was just passing the 6 hour mark. Also, because i’d been sleeping, that the A314 had wiped off on my sheets anyway. I decided to use one of the socials instead–boom, Instant Shine.
I noticed some subtle with this stuff. First of all, it was my friend Drew, his girlfriend, another mutual friend and I. We did a three bar circuit over two hours to mix things up. I started with one spray of IS to the neck as per the recommendations in this thread: Need advice on how and where to apply pheromones..
Nothing noticeable at the first bar, nothing noticeable at the second bar.
At the third bar, i’m pretty sure I clocked IOIs from at least two, maybe four girls. I had to graze past two of the girls downstairs so I could follow my friends upstairs. So maybe they caught a good whiff when I excused myself past them. My friends and I went upstairs to shoot pool. There were some people sitting around the table while my friends and I played our game, so there was more dispersion of IS up there. This is where I received my (maybe) first two hits.
Before we hit the pool table, we sat at a table for a few minutes. I excused myself to spray another dose of IS on my neck, which I thereafter dabbed off my neck onto my wrists a bit too. This third bar was packed, so I wanted to make sure I was giving off a coherent signal.
Now, when we started playing pool, the hits came in a clump. One was a girl across the pool table with a cadre of guys around her. If i’m not mistaken, she gave me the bedroom eyes look if only slightly. She was definitely looking at me though. The second hit was one of the firs girl’s friends. She started dancing to the left of me while I was taking my shot–this one is a maybe, too, because it seemed like she was looking straight at me while dancing (she was only about a meter away) maybe trying to get my attention.
The two girls from downstairs came up. One girl kept kneeling in front of Drew and me while we aimed our shots. She would crouch across from us looking down the cue stick while we were looking down the cue stick on the opposite side. The fourth girl looked like she was shy, I don’t know, but kept inching her way towards my little group. Then during on my later shots they stood behind me, and one of them was talking to me about something not very funny. She apparently thought it was funny though so I feigned a laugh to be polite.
In addition, Drew’s girlfriend started to consistently initiate conversation with me, and our mutual friend kept trying to hug me.
To put the hits into perspective, i’m very picky with my women. Not only aesthetically, but I don’t like to play the drunk-pickup-ONS game. My persona does not lend itself to the blitz pickup, and I find I have to be more deliberate in my interactions with the opposite sex–maybe even premeditated. I like to have deep, psychological control, and this necessitates intimate conversation, and time spent eliciting attraction and comfort. If we go to a bar, chances are i’m not going to be attracted to anyone there because you can’t hold the kinds of conversations I want with drunk people, so I don’t open. Because I do not open, I am rarely opened myself, that’s the name of the game.
Thus, the two to four hits I had above were extraordinary for me. Really, I am never opened by strangers.
With respect to my friend’s girlfriend, I have met her several times in the past. The circumstances have been roughly constant. We’ve always met in an environment where alcohol is being consumed, and there have always been one or two other people around. This is the first time she has initated (subtantial) conversation with me. Similarly, the eponymous mutual friend has never been this friendly before either. In the past, he has always been very drunk, but he has also been very quiet. Not that he does not have a large presence–he is hard to miss–but we rarely talked much in the past aside from superficial fluff. His repeated attempts to embrace me and requests that I, “Show [him] some love” were unexpected tonight.
