skeptic
09-29-2003, 10:54 PM
Well, my package got here today. Quick response. :-)
I ordered some SOE gel packs and a bottle of TE. It had arrived when I came home between classes, so I decided to try the SOE before my afternoon class and not fool with the TE since it\'s a little riskier.
My brain didn\'t leap out of my skull when I sniffed the SOE gel. heh. So I put some on, throat, wrists, behind ears. I\'m not sure how much, it\'s hard to judge with those packets (note to Bruce, maybe try clear in the future with a very slightly tinted gel?). A few pearl-sized blobs, maybe 1/4 the pack. Anyway.
I\'m not thrilled with the scent, but it seems to fade fairly quickly, and doesn\'t produce a horrible reaction with my cologne, at least as far as I can tell anyway. My nose acclimates very quickly to scents like that, especially since I\'ve worn the same cologne for years, and I\'d already had 2 squirts on since the morning. I put one more squirt on to cover the SOE and off to class I went.
Let me say, I was really tired when I set out, and when I\'m tired I feel unstable, so I was feeling a little bit weird while I was waiting for the TA to unlock the room. However, I started having rather graphic thoughts about most of the women walking by without even thinking about it until I sort of perked up and went \"hmm, I\'m normally not this much of a lech.\" heh. Related? Who knows.
Once the lab started my energy level and mood improved rapidly, and I was feeling approach-y, so I talked to a few people that I had a vague excuse to talk to before having seen them in the last session, as well as with a somewhat interesting girl I sit near in the lecture component and her roommate. Hot engineering chicks, whoda thunkit. I also schmoozed the TA about my report which was due last Tuesday, heh. Again, this is well within the realm of my behavioral variability, and I\'ve been on something of an \"up\" since last Friday after a very nice (and \'moneless) encounter with that woman I mentioned having my eye on before.
Anyway, I left class in a good mood and spent a few hours at home wasting time and eating and whatnot, and otherwise avoiding my mountain of homework. Then I decided, when taking one of my frequent breaks, to test out TE just for the smell. I primed the sprayer and sprayed the first squirt onto some toilet paper to see how much would come out. Then I tried a squirt on my chest (second spray). hmm. Not very much came out, which I thought was a good thing.
At this point I\'ll note that when I sprayed either place, all I could smell was ethanol. Nothing else... not a trace of scent at all. I waited a few minutes and sniffed the paper and myself, and smelled not one bit different.
Then I sprayed my wrist, and apparently the atomizer was fully primed. Holy crap does a lot come out with one squirt. :-/ Again, I could smell nothing, and still can\'t hours later. So it would seem that I\'m one of those that cannot smell -none.
This is making me paranoid, and I\'m considering obtaining an atomizer and diluting the TE in a 1:1 ratio with an ethanol solution of some sort (Bacardi 151 anyone? heh) because I want fine dosage control over the -none, ESPECIALLY if I cannot smell it.
By the way, on a very vaguely related tangent, I recently remembered an article I once read long ago. Somebody figured out that a certain subset of women are mostly incapable of smelling urine. In other words, it doesn\'t smell nearly as strong to them as it does to most. A study was done which found that there was a distinct correlation between not being able to smell urine and lack of interest in sex or an unsatisfactory sex life. Another tantalizing bit of evidence.. it doesn\'t really relate to me, I don\'t think, because despite apparently not being able to (consciously) smell -none, I can definitely smell women, and I ain\'t talking about their perfume. Also, I have had a notable \"smell connection\" with a couple that I had the most deep-seated attraction to. I liked sniffing them when they would let me. :-D And in watching people, this is NOT that overly weird of a behavior.
I ordered some SOE gel packs and a bottle of TE. It had arrived when I came home between classes, so I decided to try the SOE before my afternoon class and not fool with the TE since it\'s a little riskier.
My brain didn\'t leap out of my skull when I sniffed the SOE gel. heh. So I put some on, throat, wrists, behind ears. I\'m not sure how much, it\'s hard to judge with those packets (note to Bruce, maybe try clear in the future with a very slightly tinted gel?). A few pearl-sized blobs, maybe 1/4 the pack. Anyway.
I\'m not thrilled with the scent, but it seems to fade fairly quickly, and doesn\'t produce a horrible reaction with my cologne, at least as far as I can tell anyway. My nose acclimates very quickly to scents like that, especially since I\'ve worn the same cologne for years, and I\'d already had 2 squirts on since the morning. I put one more squirt on to cover the SOE and off to class I went.
Let me say, I was really tired when I set out, and when I\'m tired I feel unstable, so I was feeling a little bit weird while I was waiting for the TA to unlock the room. However, I started having rather graphic thoughts about most of the women walking by without even thinking about it until I sort of perked up and went \"hmm, I\'m normally not this much of a lech.\" heh. Related? Who knows.
Once the lab started my energy level and mood improved rapidly, and I was feeling approach-y, so I talked to a few people that I had a vague excuse to talk to before having seen them in the last session, as well as with a somewhat interesting girl I sit near in the lecture component and her roommate. Hot engineering chicks, whoda thunkit. I also schmoozed the TA about my report which was due last Tuesday, heh. Again, this is well within the realm of my behavioral variability, and I\'ve been on something of an \"up\" since last Friday after a very nice (and \'moneless) encounter with that woman I mentioned having my eye on before.
Anyway, I left class in a good mood and spent a few hours at home wasting time and eating and whatnot, and otherwise avoiding my mountain of homework. Then I decided, when taking one of my frequent breaks, to test out TE just for the smell. I primed the sprayer and sprayed the first squirt onto some toilet paper to see how much would come out. Then I tried a squirt on my chest (second spray). hmm. Not very much came out, which I thought was a good thing.
At this point I\'ll note that when I sprayed either place, all I could smell was ethanol. Nothing else... not a trace of scent at all. I waited a few minutes and sniffed the paper and myself, and smelled not one bit different.
Then I sprayed my wrist, and apparently the atomizer was fully primed. Holy crap does a lot come out with one squirt. :-/ Again, I could smell nothing, and still can\'t hours later. So it would seem that I\'m one of those that cannot smell -none.
This is making me paranoid, and I\'m considering obtaining an atomizer and diluting the TE in a 1:1 ratio with an ethanol solution of some sort (Bacardi 151 anyone? heh) because I want fine dosage control over the -none, ESPECIALLY if I cannot smell it.
By the way, on a very vaguely related tangent, I recently remembered an article I once read long ago. Somebody figured out that a certain subset of women are mostly incapable of smelling urine. In other words, it doesn\'t smell nearly as strong to them as it does to most. A study was done which found that there was a distinct correlation between not being able to smell urine and lack of interest in sex or an unsatisfactory sex life. Another tantalizing bit of evidence.. it doesn\'t really relate to me, I don\'t think, because despite apparently not being able to (consciously) smell -none, I can definitely smell women, and I ain\'t talking about their perfume. Also, I have had a notable \"smell connection\" with a couple that I had the most deep-seated attraction to. I liked sniffing them when they would let me. :-D And in watching people, this is NOT that overly weird of a behavior.