Phase 2 is officially rolled out!
Changes implemented in this phase:- The duration 'per use' for all scent items has been increased to 9 IRL hours.
- The prices for scents have trended slightly upward for perfumes, and a little more upward for strigil oils.
- All merchants ingame have been updated to sell the updated versions of these scents.
- Each 'potency phase' for scents lasts 3 hours. This may not be obvious on hard-coded scents, but for custom scents it means that when you see the 'faint' message, you know you have 3 IRL hours to reapply.
Now for a Story Break:Joybane Merchants have recently discovered a new scent. Or maybe it would technically be considered a non-scent. They were trying to experiment with alecost blooms to create a new raw oil for their scents. Experiments backfired, and they wound up with an oil that not only doesn't have a discernible smell of its own, but it also doesn't bind with any other fragrances added to it! Instead of tanking all the coin spent on experimentation, Joybane chose to capitalize on the discovery, and are marketing this scentless alecost bloom oil as a "commoner's choice".
So if you're in need of something quick easy and cheap, and don't care if you just 'smell like nothing', then this is the oil for you!
What this Means:- This oil is significantly cheaper than the normal scented oils and is even lower-cost than the raw oil used to craft scented oils.
- This bottle comes with 5 uses, where all other strigil oils come with 3.
- This oil doesn't have a discernible scent. It wipes away the smell of sweat and dust, but that's all.
Also please see
this thread for information about getting old scents you may possess reimbursed.