As noted in my previous post, I was using Bliss + Ascend for work. Before going home each day, I washed up, and applied Cohesion (Cohesion is a social/sexual blend thats supposed to make women feel comfortable and close to you) to wear at home and see what happens.

Thursday.
It should be noted that my primary target is my wife, we've talked about 'mones, but she has no clue I've started testing them on her. I don't want to risk placebo effects. Once I've tested more thoroughly, I'll let her in on it and ask her some questions on her feelings to get more insight.
This week has been a bitch for her at work. She's had no day off since last Tuesday, had to work at 4am both tuesday and wednesday and doesn't get home until after 5 most days. We also go to the gym most afternoons. Shortly before getting home, I apply Cohesion X 2 and Villian. I'm sticking with Villian as a cover scent because it seems to do the job and my wife would get suspicious if I started wearing something else.

We get home only a few minutes apart and start getting ready for the gym, as usual, she tells me about her day. After getting changed, and having our pre-workout, we head to the gym. I start seeing possible effects in the car. She's talkative, but not like when I had on Xist. She's not talking a mile a minute, she's actually... addled. She forgets things, loses her train of thought. It's not exhaustion. She's had rough times like this at work numerous times in the past seven years, and she's always coherent right up until she falls asleep early. She's also more touchy. She holds my hand when we cross the street to the gym? Once we're in, we work out, she's flirty and playful, making faces at me, doing little dances on the treadmill, it's humorous, but cute. When we leave, she's still chattier than usual, and still doesn't seem completely with it. When we get home, we eat dinner, and shower together. She's not coming on to me like with the Xist, but she's more touchy, holding hands, hugging randomly, etc. I get her into bed early, since I know tomorrow is another long day. Nothing spectacular today, but nature is nature, and I know she's tired.

Friday. Same as yesterday, I wash off the Bliss/Ascend before leaving work, and today I apply 2 x Cohesion and toss on 1 x Ascend just because. Today is a pain, we're dropping the two older kids off at the movies, and taking the youngest to the grocery store. I have to talk to my daughter (15) about some issues with late night texting. Instead of her typical eye rolling and "he does it too", she just points her eyes at the floor and yes sir's me to death. This is definitely the 'mones, no way she takes a scolding like that without trying to get out of it or divert, it's her MO...

By contrast, my son (16) is particularly aggressive. He's going to the movies with his girlfriend, he is usually in a great mood, now he wants to argue or fight with me about everything. Ugh. This could be the 'mones, might not be, he has moments like this from time to time. My wife is holding my hand a lot, normally when my son and I argue, she wants no part of it, now she's trying to calm me, and stroking my arm in a rather odd way? We pick up the girlfriend, drop off the teenagers and grab a bite to eat. My wife sits next to my son, and across from me at the table (much to his dismay, I can tell he was looking forward to having that side of the table to himself, and what twelve year boy old wants to have his mom crowding him?) She usually sits next to me, but now she's across from me, and making more eye contact than usual. Nothing flirty or sexual, just conversational, but I've mentioned before, she doesn't do eye contact typically.

Grocery store goes well, unusually so. There is no friction, even when we tell each other to put something back now that we're eating healthier. Actually, there are a lot of smiles and touching, again, nothing sexual, just lightly flirty. Even the boy seems particularly calm for a 1.5 hour trip to the store, he's usually grumpy by the 1 hour minute mark, now he's happily trailing along, making the occasional suggestion and even helps put the bags in the cart at checkout without being asked.

We pick up the teenagers and they're raving about how good the movie was. We drop off the girlfriend, then drop off my daughter at a friends house. As soon as we pass McDonalds, my oldest starts pissing and moaning about being hungry, he's a pain in the ass the whole way home. Talk about a 180 in attitude. I'm starting to think maybe the Ascend is hitting him and conflicting with his teenage abundance of testosterone? I don't think it's coincidence anymore. He was fine yesterday when I wore just cohesion, now he gets aggressive within minutes of being around me. I'm making a note of that...

The wife and I put away groceries, she's tired as hell, it's 10pm and she has to get up at 3am. I get her in a quick shower and in bed. We have a small argument about her work, but she's not defensive like usual, she's apologetic and it passes quickly. She makes the move to give me a huge hug and a kiss for no real reason. After a smoke, we kiss and go to sleep.

A few basic observations.
I can be an asshole, I admit it. I got no real self effects from Ascend/Bliss, but Cohesion seems to make me more agreeable, especially where my wife is concerned? Has anyone run into something like this?

As for others, the Cohesion seems to make my wife more touchy and friendly, but not overtly flirty like the Xist. It also seems to to make her a little flighty.

Adding the Ascend to the mix seemed to really set something off in my son with aggression, while the younger two and the wife go the other way, being more agreeable and submissive, domestically speaking.