Hi everyone,
I’ve decided to consolidate my adventures into a journal thread, which seems to be what all the cool kids are doing these days. 
Please stay tuned for what will hopefully be some entertaining and occasionally even helpful observations on the Pheromonal Life.
Much love,
~ Smelly
“Did you cut your hair?.. Well it looks great.” — someone caught in today’s phero cloud. I haven’t even washed my hair in 3 days, much less cut it! 
Pheromones: 4 shots MX300 (1 wrists + smear above lip, 1 neck, 2 hair) & 4 shots Instant Openness (2 wrists + smear above lip, 2 hair)
Location: Dean’s Office- meeting to alter next year’s schedule
Results: Excellent. Got exactly what I wanted even though the Dean wasn’t on board at first. After the meeting, got an unexpected invitation from Dean to join him in an interview with a newspaper reporter.
Story: The Dean was late, but once he arrived he sat me right down and got to business. I wanted to make a major switch in my schedule to which he was hesitant at first. But I smilingly and patiently showed him the advantages of the change, and I got my way. 
He even called the Registrar right then to make sure it would work out.
Once the meeting was over, I left the office and was walking down the hall when I felt a tug on my backpack. I turned around and realized that one of the administrators was trying to get my attention. She told me that a newspaper reporter was talking to the Dean about something, and he wanted me to come back in case she wanted a student’s point of view. Awesome!
I walked back into the office to find the Dean in a telephone conference call. At one point she asked a “what do the students think?” question, and he referred her to me! So I got to talk for a little while and she took my name and info (and has since sent me an e-mail to confirm my contact info). So I guess I’m gonna be in the paper! I certainly found myself wondering if the Dean had come under my “Openness phero cloud.”
Once the reporter was finished, I made a little more small talk with the Dean, and then took off. On my way out, the secretary asked if I had cut my hair. Nope… I haven’t had a haircut in over a year now (last year I cut it very short and donated it, so it’s just been growing out)… and I haven’t washed it in three days! I told her that I was just wearing it differently. She responded that “it looks great.”
*“My son is 8 and blah blah blah… when my father visited from Europe blah blah blah… my husband is always blah blah blah… etc.” — my unsuspecting instructor who suddenly, after a month of teaching us, felt the need to share. This was also the first time she had been exposed to Instant Openness. Coincidence?
*Pheromones: 4 shots MX300 (1 to wrists + smeared around mouth, 1 to neck, 2 to hair) & 4 shots Instant Openness (1 to wrists + smeared around mouth, 1 to neck, 2 to hair)
Location: small-group classroom setting; seated next to instructor
Results: Didn’t see much from the MX300, but the Instant Openness appeared to be really affecting the instructor. Some of the other students were actually getting irritated by how much she suddenly felt the need to tell us all her life stories… oops.
Story: I rolled into class not as prepared as usual. It didn’t matter, though-- no one was focusing much on me. Instead, all eyes were on the instructor next to whom I was sitting. Suddenly this instructor, after a month of teaching us, felt the need to tell us her life story. All of her life story. And all about her child… and father… and husband. Now normally this woman is very socially aware of her role of instructor and facilitator, and she is concerned lest we ever feel that she is talking too much (we’re supposed to teach ourselves as a group, and just let her guide us if we wander too far). But suddenly she was spilling her guts and seemingly couldn’t contain herself. Some of my classmates, who were across the room and not subject to my phero cloud, were visibly getting irritated! I’d say the moral of the story is that IO may not be appropriate for this setting… at least not in the dosage I was wearing. But it sure was neat to see!
*“A lot of my patients already hit on me. If I need to ask one of them about his sexual function, I’ll send a really ugly nurse, or something.” ~ Me, in class, being a little too honest. Oops. Gotta watch that Instant Honesty!
*Pheromones: 5 shots MX300 (2 to wrists + smeared around mouth, 1 to neck, 2 to hair) & 3 shots Instant Honesty 2X (1 to wrists + 2 to hair)
Location: small-group classroom setting; seated next to instructor
Results: strong leadership skills… but an unfortunate incident of “diarrhea of the mouth.”
Story: I was leading today, and I started off with a real “take charge” attitude. As luck would have it, I know a lot about the case we were given to discuss, and quickly assumed a teacher/instructor-like role which my classmates seemed to accept without question. Sadly, though, I think the Instant Honesty bit me in the a$$ a bit once we moved on to a different case in which sexual issues were involved. I found myself getting almost b!tchy and complaining about how all my patients hit on me, so I can’t possibly follow the recommendations of our professors re: asking about patients’ sexual function. I even knew I was being narcissistic while I was talking… and yet I couldn’t stop. It was like having diarrhea of the mouth, and a classmate or two did give me a dark look. What’s frustrating is that even as I waslk talking, I was even thinking about what a high dose of Honesty I had used… but I just couldn’t shut myself up. Sigh. This was my first test of Honesty, and it really does work! But I will be very careful…
*(from awhile ago, so can’t recall an exact quote)
***Pheromones: **4 shots MX135 (1 to wrists + smeared around mouth, 1 to neck, 2 to hair)
OR
4 shots Instant Sexiness B (1 to wrists + smeared around mouth, 1 to neck, 2 to hair)
Location: hanging around apartment alone & with boyfriend
Results: seems to make me emotionally more vulnerable… in a bad way.
Story: I’ve tried wearing MX135 or IS/B around the boyfriend on several occasions while just hanging around the apartment. At the time I was experimenting with them, I did not realize that they both contain high amounts of TAH, which I now suspect is why I had poor results with both of them. I have a baseline tendency to be a little more needy and anxious than I might otherwise wish to be, and TAH seems to amplify this. When using MX135 and IS/B I seemed to need more reassurance than usual and found myself being overly sensitive to perceived slights that (in retrospect) I doubt would have bothered me while wearing MX300. It also seems to bring out a bit of viciousness in the BF. The only time he has ever insulted me was when I was wearing MX135-- he made a snide comment about me not sticking to my diet. Now his comment was true, mind you, but usually he’s much, much nicer than this! But there’s something about me with TAH that just seems to make me feel incredibly submissive in a bad way: like I have a target stuck on my back and am inviting people to take shots at me.
MX135 and IS/B are the only products from Andriotics with which I have been unhappy, and I have little doubt that the TAH is the culprit. Most likely, I already produce a little too much natural TAH anyway, and this is compounding the problem. I believe that I am getting both self-effects and hits from the BF… they’re just not the kind of hits I want! In the future, I’m sticking to TAL…
I like your journal format!
Your reports make me want to give mx300 another shot. (it turned me into a super bitch)
I’m glad the journal is helpful to you, Merienda. Yes, I know that MX300 has been known to bring out the… erm… very highly assertive side of some posters. However, buffering it with more softening products like EST seems to help with this (Currently EST is sold out at Androtics, but it is available at other sites. Caveat Emptor).
You might want to read Xiphoid’s posts about this. She initially had the bitch effect with MX300, but buffered with EST, it’s become her standard work mix:
*“Wow, you smell so good. All fresh and clean.” ~ my boyfriend, after I showered and applied the neruli-based pheromones plus Marc Jacobs Violet perfume. The thing is, I always shower and apply some sort of neruli-based pheromones plus Marc Jacobs Violet before seeing him. But this is the first time I’ve tried the IH + IO combo around him. *
Pheromones: 4 shots Instant Openness (2 to wrists + 2 to hair) & 2 shots Instant Honesty 2X (1 to wrists + smeared around mouth, 1 to hair)
Location: hanging around apartment with boyfriend
Results: mostly emotionally intimate “couple time”… but at one point, a strange and sudden burst of male irritation.
Story: The bf and I had been “putting off” moving some furniture. However, this was the last day we could do it, as I had to return the borrowed minivan to my parents. Unfortunately, the bf showed up ill with a bout of nausea he’d had all day (he wasn’t sure of the cause, but this happens to him from time to time). I felt badly about having him to help me move the furniture while he was sick, but I didn’t see much of any way around it. 
He lay down on my bed just to relax for awhile before moving the stuff around. I cuddled up nest to him, and he nuzzled his head into my neck. He inhaled deeply a few times, and then said, “Wow, you smell good. All fresh and clean.” Now mind you, I didn’t use any differently scented products than usual: had the same soap, shampoo, and neruli-base to my pheromones. The only difference was that I was using IO and IH, a combo I had never tried with him before.
We cuddled a little while just talking about life (very emotionally intimate) until we decided that we had best move the stuff now and then go to sleep… even though it was only 8 PM! We dragged ourselves out of bed and outside to move the first table. It was heavy, and I’m pathetically weak and fell on my butt while trying to get the thing up the stairs. Then, when we walked outside to get the second table, all of a sudden he turned mean and bitter, and verbally lashed out at me for no reason I am aware of… I don’t think I was even talking at the time. I was so socked, I asked “Are you ok?” When he asked why I inqired, I observed, “You suddenly turned all bitter and mean.” He grumbled something about, “No, not bitter and mean… well… not really…” and then lasped into silence. We moved the second table, and by the time the work was done he seemed to be back to his old self. We went to bed, had some “good times” and he seemed to be back to his old self. Afterwards, we lay there spooning and talked about life, the future, and all that jazz.
So overall, I feel pretty good about this combo… but that one lashing out moment was weird. For now, I’m going to assume it was something going on inside him that just had nothing to do with the pheromones. But I’ll try this combo again a few more times just to see what happens. I’d really like to know what suddenly made him so angry. It could have just been that he had to do hard physical work while he was sick (which is a good reason to be cranky)… but it seemed like something more. Sigh. I wish the IH could have inspired him to tell me what was up.
wish this journal didt die. very interesting
Agreed. Very interesting.