Okay, I wore it to work today. And today already sucks. Updates as they happen. 
As the day has progressed, I’ve noticed that nobody is treating me any differently, but I haven’t had any meetings or anything. However, I am most certainly in a better mood than I should be, given the annoyances I’ve dealt with in the last three hours. It should be noted, though, that I have a great deal of fun things to look forward to this weekend, and that might be where the good mood comes from.
*Don’t * tell me this! I’ve already ordered it, and it’s one it’s way! I need something to look forward to in life to help make me An Irresistable Babe! This was my Last Chance!
Wait. You’re a woman named Phall-something?
I wore it to the market today. Nada. Tonight’s the big test. I’ll keep the stuff in my purse and sneak applications every half hour. If getting a response requires that JBF look, then I’m shit out of luck.
I should point out that I work primarily with straight women, and none of them are going to hit on me. I did get told earlier that I look nice today, though I don’t think I look any different than I did yesterday, with the exception of wearing different clothes.
There’s still hope.
One nagging question: if this is supposed to arouse either sex, then why doesn’t just wearing this stuff make me hornier than usual?
The thing with pheromones, though, is that it’s all advertised to “arouse”, however, any actual studies done with these things shows the effects they actually have, which are subtle at best, are not supposed to “make you horny”. I used that in my OP, but I was being facetious.
Pheromones are really only supposed to make people “friendlier”. If I thought this stuff was going to turn everyone around me on, I wouldn’t be wearing it in public. :eek:
I just want to see how much of a change really takes place in the people around me. I’m not going to experiment with it any more until after the holidays. Mid-January, when people are trudging through rain and mush, will likely be a better time to give this stuff a whirl.
As I mentioned, my husband hasn’t ravished me yet. But he sure does seem to think I’m beautiful lately. That’s okay with me. 
Q:
How do you make a pheromone?
A:
Step on its foot.*
*Please, stop me before I pun again.
Last night’s experiment yielded mixed results. I ended up spending all my time in conversation with lots of people - no solo standing, fortunately. The ratio was about 2/1 women/men, but for about half the time I socialized with two men at the same time, so my personal ratio was pretty good, considering. But it was all chummy, no chemistry. My presence seemed to be entertaining but not particularly enticing.
I doubt the stuff had any effect. Btw, I’ve noticed that while it’s strong, it wears off really fast.
This post really made me chuckle and crack a smile. It sounds like a cheesy Christmas movie! The image of all these people being so thoroughly friendly cracks me up.
Ugh, really? Mine lingers for hours upon hours. If I take a shower when I wake up and then put it on, by the time I take my clothes off for bed, I still smell it, just as strong. I get used to the smell during the time I wear it, when when my clothes shift, I get a fresh whiff of the stuff, and it lets me know it hasn’t worn off of me one bit. I usually have to go take a shower again to get it all off.
I’m still getting the “beautiful” treatment from the husband. Could be just a coincidence that the day I started wearing the stuff, he decided to start a new trend of telling me how beautiful I am. It is kind of surprising to me that it only happens after he’s said, “Wow, you sure smell nice. Have I told you today how beautiful you are?” And then only when he gets near me. He doesn’t say it from across the room. However, he’s not one to yell from one end of the apartment, “HEY! SWEETHEART! YOU’RE LOOKING PRETTY TODAY!” in the first place. So that’s normal enough. 
I really don’t think this stuff is meant to turn people on, or make anyone horny. Seriously. Friendlier, perhaps. It’s still too damn Christmas-y out there to find out for sure.
Yep, P as in my middle name (which I used to go by years ago) and Hall as in my last name. 0106 as in January 6–my birthday.
How original, I know. :rolleyes:
Day Two of wearing it to work–I’m unusually happy again. It could be a variety of factors, though. In the next three days, I’ve got a party where all my friends give me presents, a birthday, and my college roommate coming to visit. But I think this stuff is actually lifting my mood–I should be mad as hell at all the idiots calling me names because we don’t have an iPod to sell them three days before Christmas.
I haven’t worn the stuff since December 23. My husband and I have been having much, much more sex.
However, the “beautiful” talk has stopped, perhaps coincidentally, since the day I stopped wearing it. He’s back to saying, almost shyly, “You’re pretty.”
But no more “You are so beautiful!” “Have I told you how beautiful you are today?” “I was just sitting here noticing how beautiful you are.”
No more of that. “You’re pretty,” he says.
I will wear it once tomorrow and see if the beautiful comes back. Then not wear it for a week and see… then wear it again once.
This stuff is weird. I get laid more when I’m pretty than when I’m beautiful. 
That’s because beauty is skin-deep, but pretty is, well, pretty darned nice through and through.
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Mine came in the mail yesterday. It’s a nice scent, fresh, subtle, friendly. Very wearable, not tacky at all.
I guess I had the vague idea it would smell like unwashed armpits, or something.
I like it myself, and I can’t hardly stop sniffing my wrist. My first impression is that my mood does seem to improve a bit when I smell it. The smell doesn’t last taht long though, just two/ three hours.
Let the experiment begin…
…and a link to an article quoted on Wiki:
Am I losing my mind, or is this whole idea that you can increase the sexual attractiveness of women just gilding the lily? Since when do women need any improvement?
I’ve been wearing the stuff again, and getting the same, minor reactions I was getting around Christmastime - my husband says I’m beautiful often (and decided on a whim he was going to take me out to dinner tonight, even though Valentine’s Day and our anniversary is next week and he’ll be taking me out then, too).
At the grocery store, a man about my age gave me a big hug, because, he said, I looked “cuddly”. One young fellow who was working at another store, stocking shelves, stopped and asked if I needed any help, which isn’t strange in and of itself… but then he kept… following me around, and asking me if he could reach anything for me. He had a big goofy grin and looked like a puppy dog. I told him really, I was fine, and he just smiled and nodded, and said awkwardly, “Okay. Because, you know, you can ask me for help anytime. Okay? Anytime.” Yeeeah. Okay.
It doesn’t work on everyone, and often doesn’t work quite as well as those top two examples. But I do notice more people being very friendly and talkative, men and women alike. When I don’t wear it, even if I’m having a great day and I’m smiling and saying hi to people all by myself, the reaction is not nearly as positive as the days I am wearing it.
And Resist, not all women are so attractive that men just automatically fall at their feet. Now that I’ve been out and about, there are a few Dopers who could vouch for my normal-to-dismal looks - okay, without bashing myself, they could at least tell you I’m not a particularly striking girl. Certainly not worth a second look on the street. I didn’t wear my pheromones the night I went to pub trivia, and no bar patrons were falling over themselves to buy me a drink. In fact, I owe Cervaise a buck.