Continued Expirementation - Workplace

I purchased and received my ACE (Ascend/Cohesion/Evolve) from PheromoneXS this week. Initially, I tested an Xist sample with such success that I ordered a bottle the next day.

Thursday and Friday, I decided to try out the other products. After reading some reviews, and studying the effects various people report, I decided on a blend for work. Yes, I’m a newbie and shouldn't be blending yet, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to go with straight up Ascend (Ascend is what they call an Alpha blend, and I already have an Alpha personality). I do IT for a living. I deal with a wide variety of people, but most of them are not bosses or subordinates, I’m just fixing their stuff. When I do deal with people, I’m typically in close quarters (it’s amazing how many people want to lean over your shoulder when you’re fixing their PC) and I tend to be friendly with them, I’m carefully flirty with women unless they get more overt. With men, it’s typical guy jabber, sports, cars, wives, etc. With my older clients, I’ve learned who I can chat with, and who I can’t, or don’t want to.

Thursday – I start the day with nothing. First half of the day I’m working at a high school, and dread the thought of some of these girls getting hit by the pheromones, I already get regular looks from them when I’m working here of only two varieties, “eew, who’s the old guy?” or “ooo, who’s that older dude?” would describe them best. When I leave, I’m heading to my a data center where I have 4 co-workers and a whole building full of potential targets for testing. So I decide to start testing. Fifteen minutes before getting to the data center, I apply 2 sprays Ascend (sides of the neck), 2 Sprays Bliss (wrists); Bliss is another sample I received, it's a 'social' blend thats supposed to loosen people up and make them more friendly. Gag. I smell like dirty socks. Ascend has Copulins in it, they have a powerful scent. I wait until I get to the data center and apply cover scent, Villain. I stand in the foyer for a minute to make sure I can’t smell the cops. Faint, barely noticeable. Good enough.

I setup at my desk in the data center. I’m not really noticing any self-effects, definitely not the clenched jaw I got from Xist. I tend to run a little warm, so I’ve got a fan on my desk the only one in the office, it’s a small office with 5 people in it, I don’t expect it to be long before it circulates, and I’m terrified someone is going to comment on the cops smell, but I can’t even notice it anymore. After an hour, nothing. I go to lunch.
I’m at the little diner up the street, the girls at the counter, sisters in the fifties that own the place, are a little chattier than usual, and, oddly… giggly? The place is busy, there are people in line, and the sisters are poking fun of me for not getting lettuce or mayo on my club sandwich. Weird. I’m getting mine to go, so I go sit down and wait. While I’m sitting, one of the teachers from the school comes in the side door, she notices me and waves, I smile and wave. She comes over and wants to know if I looked at an issue in her classroom (I didn’t, she wasn’t there). In the past, I’ve run into her in and out of work (this diner is, literally, the only place to eat within ten miles, the town is tiny) and she’s very alpha female, I’ve no doubt she wears the pants in her family. At work, she’s almost dismissive “This needs to be fixed” then goes her way. Out of work, it’s a smile and a hello, that’s it, unless she has a work question. After I tell her I haven’t been in her classroom, she sits down…? She’s 40ish, not unattractive, and married. Now we’re talking about her summer, how she likes to spend as much time near the pool with a drink as possible, she’s leaning in, hands outstretched on the table, and she’s all eye contact and smiles. She’s got one leg open on the side of the chair, the other forward. WTH… I’m careful about flirting with her, I don’t need the kind of trouble this could cause. She called her order in, and hers is ready before mine, they call her name, and she turns to tell them she’ll be there in a minute, and continues to talk to me. A few minutes later, my name is called, and we get up and get our food and leave, shes all smiles as she promises to be there when I go next week to check her classroom. Definite hit there.

Back at the office, I eat my food, by the time lunch is done, the one girl in the office is acting strange. She’s not focusing on me or anything, but she’s joking and laughing and smiling. Now, our boss has nicknamed her “sunshine”. Sarcastically. Because she almost never smiles. He even wrote “Good morning Sunshine, SMILE!” on the whiteboard next her desk as a joke. It could just be a good day for her, maybe she got laid last night. Could be the Ascend, probably the Bliss, but I can’t tell. The rest of the day is uneventful, no calls come in, so I don’t interact with anyone really. My boss seems less gruff than usual, he even falls asleep at his desk (he sits closer to me than anyone else, our desks face each other, touching) maybe this is the Bliss? I’ve read others report on similar effects?
Friday.
I’m in the data center all day today. I apply the same mix again, half an hour before getting there. 2xAscend + 2xBliss. I apply my cover scent just before getting there. The morning is slow so I’m in the office for most of it. After about an hour, I notice “sunshine” getting chatty again, before long she’s joking and giggling. Two days in a row? I’m wondering if it’s hitting her, but she has no focus because my fan is blowing it all over the office and she doesn’t know where it’s coming from? This alone would make the blend worthwhile for work, she usually makes the day worse by bitching and being generally grumpy.
About 10am, one of the supervisors comes in from another office to talk to my boss. He’s out today, so she just hangs out and chats with me for five minutes or so. We hardly know each other (she’s friends with sunshine, so she usually calls her direct when she has an issue) but she’s asking me about my upcoming weekend, etc. I have so little interest, it’s not funny, she usually treats me like a minion to do her bidding. She leaves and I chuckle to myself.
Lunchtime, I walk down to the café again. This time, one sister is at the counter, and she’s all smiles and bubbles. The other sister sees me and comes up to ring me up after the other has taken my order. She’s usually expediting, so this isn’t normal. Both are all smiley at me. I sit down and wait. My name is called, I go up to get my food, and they ask me to wait a second. The kitchen is only 6 or 7 feet behind the counter, with a window between. One sister opens my food while the other says something to the cook. I look down to see my sandwhich has fries stuck in it to make a smiley face, the cook is telling me through the window she wanted to do something special for me because I’m always so patient for my order. I’ve been coming here for two years, I’ve always been patient. Dafuq is going on here? I didn’t think it would extend out that far, but I can’t think of any other reason a fifty year old woman would suddenly take to making smiley faces in sandwiches, this has to be a hit. While I was waiting, I sat down next to a table full of sheriffs eating lunch together. 6 of them, all male, ranging from their early twenties to upper fifties. I get constant looks from the table, unfriendly ones. One even looks over his shoulder to get a look. I get a distinct vibe they don’t like me, even though I’m clean shaven, professionally dressed and obviously not new here with the way the girls at the counter talked to me. I pay them no mind. They eventually ignore me.
Back at the office. I get a call to an office where a girl has lost her documents. I’m in her office for 2 minutes, and she asks if I smell something funny… Stuff has been on for five hours now, can she really smell it when no one else has? She just got back from maternity leave last week, maybe this has something to do with it? She acts no differently than normal, other than being thankful and amazed when I find all her documents right where they belong…
I step out of the office, and I notice a woman I’ve had my eye on going out for a smoke. I check my pocket to make sure I’ve got mine, and step out right behind her. We’ve talked twice before, she almost never calls for help and she works the opposite side of the building, so goes out to smoke on the other side, so I almost never see her. She’s a couple years younger than me, and married, but has a body to die for, long brunette hair, green eyes, and glasses and pulls off the “sexy librarian” look that sucks me in every time. We chat while we smoke, and it gets progressive. Starts out as small talk, then she’s telling me she needs a weekend night off (she works part time fri/sat waiting tables for some extra cash for herself) Then she’s telling me how her husband works opposite shifts so they don’t hardly see each other, and how she needs a stiff drink and a night out. We flirt back and forth, for a good five minutes after our smokes are finished. When we head back into the building, she steps in front of me and opens the door for me… When we pass her office, she stops and talks to me for another five minutes before going in. I might have to start smoking at the other end of the building and pursue this a little further... maybe even change up the ‘mones a little and see what happens.

Nothing else noteworthy for the rest of the day. A few interactions, but nothing unusual. By the time I leave, it’s been on for 9 hours, I wash my face in the rest room to remove anything lingering, and head home, where I plan to try a different blend (I’ll post those results in a different posting)