RE: DESI
10-16-2015 8:02 AM
Here's my first report, I hate to say it, but the first report is inconclusive and the second one did not go well at all.
Got my order on Tuesday and thanks to John for the sample of Treasureful Shine. Just some quick summary points on what I've seen with the key points:
Scent: Aqua Di Gio. Very close to the actual scent, very nice.
Longevity: very, very, very low. I've never worn Aqua Di Gio, but I suspect the scent doesn't work with my body chem. It didn't last long and I ended up using a cover to aid in projection.
Silage: very subtle. Didn't project much, again, could be body chem with this type of scent. Musks tend to work better for me. Have had similar issues with Creed's Himalaya. An awesome scent but it only lasts about an hour and a half to two hours MAX on my skin.
Self effects: haven't seen much with it.
Effects on others: See report below.
Day one: three drops, either side of the neck, one drop at the throat. No cover.
No self effects, ended up going to a group critique meeting with some fellow photographers. No East Indians but I was curious to see if there were any effects. Mixed group, mostly Caucasian, one Hispanic male, three women, all in their 40's or older. No noticeable impact on any of them. Men were friendly though I was being friendly as well, so their response to my personality isn't much different from baseline results without Pheromones (I'm generally a pretty sociable person so making friends isn't hard). Again, wasn't going in with any expectations since there weren't any EI women or men but I did notice that most people in my immediate area around me were not very chatty, might have been their personality types (artists can sometimes be introverted and not very talkative).
Day two: Three drops, same app points. One spray of TS, Creed GIT as a cover.
Location: Volleyball (social group). FYI, some information has been changed since I suspect some of my friends involved may be on this site.
Put this mix on before going out, there's a diverse group of ethnicities in this group, including a few East Indians, men and women. Been with this group for a few years, so very well established with the social circle. Again, no self effects from Desi, noticed an increase in concentration with TS, which helped me play a few games more than I normally would. Older friends (male, female, Asian, Caucasian, etc) all responded as normal, friendly, outgoing, joking, etc. Two EI women I know were oddly less sociable with me, in fact, I got the cold shoulder from one of them for most of the evening. One in particular is mid twenties, very strong personality, almost to the point of being overly bossy, she likes to order people around. She's realized early on that she can't do that with me as I don't tolerate people trying to boss me around (habit with my job). At one point, I'm taking a break off to the side of the gym. She comes over and is talking with a few other people, one of them said they weren't going to the bar with us afterwards, she proceeds to jokingly say "oh no, you're going, I'll drag you myself." Typical response from her. She then sees that I'm sitting near her water bottle and in a similar tone asks me to pass her the bottle, arm stuck out as if expecting me to comply. I grab the bottle, purposefully hold it away from her and ask her for the magic word. She looks surprised a for a split second and then says with a smile, "please? I did ask "can I have the bottle?"" She was a bit more sociable with me but nothing out of ordinary from her normal baseline.
Now here's where things go awry. I normally wear Ascend during and afterwards (shower before leaving) and usually have very good results. Folks are willing to follow me, hear my thoughts, be open and friendly but attentive. This time around, it almost seemed as if I was there, but not there. We went to the bar afterwards, minus our group, it was dead but it was still a loud group. Normally, I dominate the social settings but this time around, I was more or less ignored, had to fight to be heard or noticed, got plenty of shit testing from the EI women (wasn't an issue but normally they don't try that with me), but that's all I got from them. The rest of the time, I was pretty much ignored completely. Might also be due to the fact that I don't have an advanced degree, but when wearing Ascend or another alpha mix, I'm usually given more attention from them. One EI man that I've known for a long time, he's usually pretty open with me but his body posture was closed off and rarely if ever made any eye contact or acknowledged me. It was odd but it felt like I had dropped off everyone's radar. Another EI man and I got along well enough. African Americans and I get along quite nicely, so didn't see any changes in behavior from my friends in that group. Afterwards, I ended up chatting with a couple of people including one of the EI women. She seemed a bit more relaxed, less pushy, less loud around me, though I'm not sure if Desi was at play here, because we were outside and it was very cold.
Overall, wasn't impressed with the results I had. Now, Since I haven't used this before, I'm curious to see what Kimo and John have to say about these results. Could it have been a fluke? I can say that I don't like being ignored and in this situation, I may have to keep with Ascend unless I want to be ignored again. Any ideas or thoughts on what might have happened and how to tweak?
PXS: xs99, pse, impact, oddessy, connections, Impact, Ascend, Dominant Ascend
LAL: Bad Wolf, Wolf, Voodoo
(This post was last modified: 10-16-2015 8:05 AM by 2000GT.)
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