Beaches by Michael Vie Bryan, and other products that you can no longer buy

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This thread is for discussion of pheromone products in the past that you can no longer buy, and obtaining them is a feat in itself.

I am not talking about stuff like Alpha Q v1, as both Garry and S1Ck is still around and they could bring it back again and again anytime. I am talking about products that has been out of stock for a very long time and the vendor is out of commission a long time ago.

One example is Hax Pheroceuticals, the creator of Wingman Black, C4, and most importantly, Holy Grail and Lady Killer among other products like Black Ops etc. It had quite the review section on old PheroTruth. Holy Grail and Lady Killer were my favorite products, and was used in my mega combo back in the day as the first iteration. I could still have both HG and LK with me today, but I made the mistake of wasting the rest few bottles I had without buying more while it was still in stock.

As of right now, if you go to HAX's website where the store used to be, you will be greeted by "Sorry for the Inconvenience, we will be back soon, with a password for the store. https://www.haxpheromones.com/password

But the product that is near impossible to obtain now is something called Beaches by Michael Vie, it was described as a product with 4 molecules and a scent that smells like tropical beaches, the scent also includes a 300 year old "love potion" from the south seas passed down from shaman to shaman.

Let me tell you all why it is near impossible to obtain, and what I know so far.

Beaches seems to be created sometime between 1997 to 1999, as reflected by this trademark archive, Michael also seems to had registered for the trademark for his "Hi-Octane+2" product around the same time.

https://uspto.report/TM/75617021

These are the websites that serves as the product description, one of them is actually an early iteration that later became the Love Scent website as we know today. It was also how I found this product, from looking at archived versions of Love Scent

https://web.archive.org/web/19990508064040/http://www.love-scent.com/pher-prod.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20120317090118/http://lovesuperstore.freehosting.net/lovepotion.html

Here is probably the only review I found online, this website also have probably the first known review of Aqua Vitae

https://pheromoneguide.blogspot.com/2010/11/beaches-by-michael-vie-beaches-by.html

For quite a while, this was all the information I had found, but I was not satisfied, and kept digging through all the possible leads that still existed on the internet, from an out of stock Amazon listing, out of stock Walmart listing, out of stock page from third party pheromone sellers. I was getting nowhere.

Then I found this article

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/63577/63577-h/63577-h.htm

In this article, it has this paragraph "In the South Seas a stimulating drink, consumed after wedding ceremonies and other notable occasions, is made from the roots of the plant kava piperaceae. The root is chewed and then the juice extruded into a bowl: the liquid is then strained and served."

Which does sounded pretty close to the descriptions of the 300 year old 'love potion" that Beaches claims to have. I did some brief research on "kava piperaceae", which led me to stuff such as "kava kava", the name piperaceae is actually a mis guided reference, as there was no mention of this anywhere besides in that article, kava kava, or "kava root" seems to be the correct reference, or "Piper Methysticum".

However, while that was a treasure load of information in itself, I still haven't got anywhere regarding of actually obtaining some remaining stocks of Beaches, I mentioned this in my Discord group, and then I was sent this link from He-Mone

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/jconline/name/michael-bryan-obituary?pid=196933636

Darn, the creator of Beaches had passed away in 2020, which means that it is no longer possible for Beaches to be produced. Only way I can confirm that this is indeed him was Lafayette, IN as location of funeral service, if you refer back to the trademark archive, this town was exactly where Michael filed the trademark.

Only hope that I have in obtaining this one, is that somehow his children, Shane and Jenny, found the recipe somewhere from their father's lab or old home, and decides to recreate the product and continue their father's legacy and business, or maybe there is still some old stock somewhere, but this is all quite the stretch of possibility, and very little chance of it happening.

So now you know, Beaches is one of the products that we can no longer buy, which I am sure that when it was still widely available, it was an excellent product. Heck, even Hax still had more possibilities of returning in the future as Brian is still around, just not a vendor anymore for the time being.