PS – As far as semantics go… I called them ExperiMones as a sort of brand name to separate them from pheromones found elsewhere. PheroM ones for Experimenters is where the name comes from.
First, ExperiMones are synthesized by the world’s best labs. Just like Swiss Vitamin C found over in Europe is superior to the Chinese and Indian synthesized vitamin C you find the US, the same is true of pheromone molecules, too. (that’s why Germany makes you get a perscription for many vitamins over there – they work better, they’re closer to pharmaceuticals in effect)
Since scientific experimentation is about reducing variables and increasing constants, penny per cup Chinese molecules have no place in experimentation where the results are actually supposed to mean something. Each batch is wildly different. The COAs provided by Chinese firms are fairy tales that no responsible company can believe. All Chinese chemicals contain an unpredictable and often just plain weird range of impurities. You can send a Chinese chemical to a good lab like InterTek and see that impurities can make up 10 to 40% of the end product, much higher than the 1 or 2% they claim.
If you want to see the scourge of Chinese chemicals in the nutritional field, check out consumerlab.com. ConsumerLab doesn’t even run complex tests. They generally just test for amount of “active product” and basic contaminants, like lead. If they ran more comprehensive, you’d see something much more gruesome.
In the cosmetic field, it’s much worse. If China has the idea that what they’re selling you will not be used for human consumption, then the gloves are really off as to what they’ll send you. They’ll put anything in there. Ground polymers, whatever.
Remember, this is the country that put melamine powder (ground school tables, basically) into watered down milk in order to fake their protein content. They killed children and senior citizens in order to make a few more cents profit.
http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/melamine-in-milk.html
Folks who kill for so little aren’t going to give you good quality pheromones, and I really didn’t want my ExperiMone line associated with what everyone else was doing with their Chinese sourced bag of strange.
Generally speaking, even worse quality chemicals are found in cosmetics. Not only are the chemicals inferior in cosmetics, but most cosmetics companies are sloppy beyond belief when mixing them, etc. (check out how Luca Turin calls almost the entire cosmetics field is despicably sloppy – which is why, of course, every batch of even expensive perfumes like Creed are quite a bit different almost every time they’re made)
A higher step on the ladder of quality is the nutritional field. This is still amazingly sloppy, as you can see from even the simplest tests done by consumerlab.com. I tend to buy mostly from life-enhancement.com, because they do use American and Swiss sourced materials. They do have amino acid based products from superior suppliers like Anjimoto in Japan. The end difference between the same formula executed with Chinese chemicals and actual quality oriented suppliers is enormous.
The highest is the pharmaceutical field, but you still can’t trust China even in this area, unless you want a good dose of lead along with your naproxen sodium.
China will improve, of course (there’s literally nowhere to go but up), but it’s certainly not there right now. At one point, you never would’ve wanted a computer made in China, but now most are made there and they work fine. Even Apple makes their artsy sculptures over there. The more you bitch at them about quality and invest your money elsewhere, the more they do evolve and adapt. Complacency will give you poor results, though. You pay (reward) someone to be bad, and they’ll be bad, all right.
ExperiMones are also the first series of pheromone chemicals to embrace the dosing concept, as found in big pharma. i.e., x amount of pheromone per spray or drop. It’s like knowing that the aspirin you’re about to take contains 325mg of the active compound per pill. It’s a good thing to know – an essential thing to know, really.
In fact, I don’t know how anybody ever did any research they consider to be serious without tracking the dose used. The number of actual academic research papers I read where the doses weren’t mentioned were just mindblowing. Without properly quantifying the amount of the substance being tested, I couldn’t understand where the science was.
Normally, a scientist wouldn’t even buy a balance (a precise scale) without looking at the linearity and repeatability of results. Why they’d test variable amounts of pheromones from inconsistent sources was unfathomable to me.
So a major reason why I started Androtics was to add these simple disciplines to the field. Use great chemicals with predictable purity and impurity profiles, and keep track of REAL dosages applied. Simple, simple concepts that somehow escaped everyone else (even the very few folks who weren’t the cons and carnies that seem to make up the bulk of pheromone sellers).
I basically had no way to get great quality, pre-dosed pheromone compounds without starting my own project. You couldn’t buy the “good stuff” because nobody sold anything all that good in terms of precision at the consumer level. (this is not to say that an excellent product like The Edge didn’t produce good results, btw – the few good products out there, like the ones from LaCroy, were very good indeed. The lack of dosing and assured purity, however, just wasn’t useful for any serious experimentation intended to advance the science)
Just like MXs are precursors to consumer products, having these simple disciplines in place was, to me, the precursor to making any actual progress in the pheromone field whatsoever. A drop of this, 3 dabs and 5" of this stuff over here may be fun, but does not exactly lend itself to variable minimization and repeatability. It does not lend itself to progress, because the foundation is too shaky.
Before I created a precision pheromone toolset, you could say that any attempts at progress with imprecise tools were doomed to be stillborn. (or very very slow)
It’s kind of like how good measurements are essential to building physical items, like houses and cars. English measurements were a good first step. Then there was some evolution beyond that initial precision. Both houses and cars became far more stable and longer lasting when the metric system was used for the measurement of their components.
Anyway, you’ve got some history on the word usage now… hopefully it makes sense to you. I’m open to simplifying the naming schemas, of course.
