InternationalPlayboy
07-15-2004, 06:55 PM
Just got my latest Love Scent order tonight and one item was Edge Essentials Heat. There was
some discussion on it's smell on another thread. Bruce says it smells like cedar to him, which is the EO that
Arouser is supposed to contain. The description of Heat is that it contains vetivert and clarisage essential oils.
Though I'm hooked on Chikara, I thought I'd take advantage of last week's special discount and order Heat, along
with a few other products.
Upon opening the package, I immediately opened the Heat bottle and took a whiff.
It doesn't smell like cedar to me. My first impression was rose germanium. Then I thought no, lemongrass. Then I
realized it smells like the palmarosa oil I have. I could not distinguish any hint of vetivert.
Not thinking
the Heat smelled like sage either, I looked up palmarosa in my copy of Scott Cunningham's Magical
Aromatherapy. It's described there as "steam distilled from a plant closely related to lemongrass. The
essential oil has a citrus-rose scent which is refreshing and somewhat compelling."
Guess I'll have to stop
at the herb shop around the corner from my house this weekend and see if they'll let me smell some clarisage so I
can compare scents.
I must say that it does smell good to me. I got a bit of a buzz from it, or an uplift in
my mood, like I get from Ylang Ylang. Think I could get a headache from too many nose hits, like Ylang Ylang too.
But it doesn't smell like like that either. Like I mentioned above, it smells like palmarosa with a hint of rose
germanium to me.
Though I wasn't planning on going anywhere tonight and was headed for my end of the work
week tub soak (need to buy a Jacuzzi), I put a dab of the Heat on my wrist. It smelled the same, but now I could
catch a hint of the sharpness that my unsented Edge has to my nose. Wondering how it would mix with Chikara, I put
one spray directly ofer the Heat application. I think they blend well. I couldn't stop smelling my wrist, which was
my same reaction with Pheros and Chikara when I first got them.
I should add that the buzz may not have been
exclusively from the Heat product as I had taken a whiff of Essence of a Woman, which I had ordered too. I like
smelling PCC and thought that since the price was right, I'd get some EW to try to mix something up for my own
pleasure. I must say, "EW" is a good acronym for that stuff. That was kind of my reaction. I can't imagine it in
the more concentrated form as it was first introduced to the forum members. (I remember reading one report that it
filled the whole room when the bottle was opened and people were sealing their bottles inside other containers to
keep the smell down.
But I digress. I'll try out the Heat this weekend, haven't had much luck yet with
TE/NPA products yet. Still learning their dosages, I guess.
some discussion on it's smell on another thread. Bruce says it smells like cedar to him, which is the EO that
Arouser is supposed to contain. The description of Heat is that it contains vetivert and clarisage essential oils.
Though I'm hooked on Chikara, I thought I'd take advantage of last week's special discount and order Heat, along
with a few other products.
Upon opening the package, I immediately opened the Heat bottle and took a whiff.
It doesn't smell like cedar to me. My first impression was rose germanium. Then I thought no, lemongrass. Then I
realized it smells like the palmarosa oil I have. I could not distinguish any hint of vetivert.
Not thinking
the Heat smelled like sage either, I looked up palmarosa in my copy of Scott Cunningham's Magical
Aromatherapy. It's described there as "steam distilled from a plant closely related to lemongrass. The
essential oil has a citrus-rose scent which is refreshing and somewhat compelling."
Guess I'll have to stop
at the herb shop around the corner from my house this weekend and see if they'll let me smell some clarisage so I
can compare scents.
I must say that it does smell good to me. I got a bit of a buzz from it, or an uplift in
my mood, like I get from Ylang Ylang. Think I could get a headache from too many nose hits, like Ylang Ylang too.
But it doesn't smell like like that either. Like I mentioned above, it smells like palmarosa with a hint of rose
germanium to me.
Though I wasn't planning on going anywhere tonight and was headed for my end of the work
week tub soak (need to buy a Jacuzzi), I put a dab of the Heat on my wrist. It smelled the same, but now I could
catch a hint of the sharpness that my unsented Edge has to my nose. Wondering how it would mix with Chikara, I put
one spray directly ofer the Heat application. I think they blend well. I couldn't stop smelling my wrist, which was
my same reaction with Pheros and Chikara when I first got them.
I should add that the buzz may not have been
exclusively from the Heat product as I had taken a whiff of Essence of a Woman, which I had ordered too. I like
smelling PCC and thought that since the price was right, I'd get some EW to try to mix something up for my own
pleasure. I must say, "EW" is a good acronym for that stuff. That was kind of my reaction. I can't imagine it in
the more concentrated form as it was first introduced to the forum members. (I remember reading one report that it
filled the whole room when the bottle was opened and people were sealing their bottles inside other containers to
keep the smell down.
But I digress. I'll try out the Heat this weekend, haven't had much luck yet with
TE/NPA products yet. Still learning their dosages, I guess.