Tested this at around 32-35mg via gel cap orally.
First alerts felt around 1 hour mark.
I didn't have any GI/Nausea issues , but i rarely do anyway.
Come up for me was pretty smooth compared to my limited PEA experience. I found 25i & 25c nbome come ups rather alarming. MDMA , Methylone , 5-apdb come ups for me are rather fast & intense , but not at all worrying like I've found the nbomes to be & I've found DOC/HOT-7 to have pretty smooth gradual come ups , but with both once i do reach the peak I'm in for a pretty intense ride. This couldn't really compare directly to any of these , as it was long & gradual as I'd describe HOT-7 for instance but at no point was it intense and it basically just felt like one very long plateau of effects when i reached the top.
Took it early in the day so i could sleep at a decent time. Effects lasted a good 14 hours until i fell asleep.
IME there was no real "peak" so to say as most of the experience was pretty much consistent intensity wise. Visually there wasn't a whole lot. Brighter color/hue's added to objects. Most of the trip was outside during a sunny day which usually isn't very great for noticing visual change. About 10 hours in though while at my GF house , i found myself getting lost in her wall paper as the flowers were breathing/changing hue's so under the right circumstance I imagine this can be pretty visual.
Mentally i was just really relax & at ease the entire day. Sociable , a bit of MDxx type openness was present as well.
At around 2hr-4hr after ingestion i was at a water park/wave pool and just lounging on a tube in the water with my eyes closed was very peaceful. No anxiety about being in a public setting was present.
My GF isn't a huge fan of my recreational psychedelic use , well really my recreational drug use as the only time it seems to upset her is if I'm on stimulants or a benzo , as with the former I'm usually talking her ear off about who knows what & awake for the whole night while she'd like me in bed cuddling , and the later i suppose for the opposite reasons as I'd be unable to socialize in a normal manner and be asleep snoring like a lion. The two for me go hand in hand , i only use benzo's after stim's but sometimes I'll overshoot what is needed to put me down so to say. Either way she tends to lump all my drug use together while in reality whenever I'm on (or were both on) psychedelics we have a great time.
Said that to say this , 99% of the time she can tell if I'm on something. While I usually don't tell her up front , I never deny it when confronted , and yesterday she never said a thing & neither did I. & it wasn't as if i was trying to hide it , as I never really do , as i find trying to appear sober when in a altered state usually dulls the experience or makes things awkward.
Sex was amazing & no problems achieving , maintaining , performing or finishing the act.
Overall Euphoria was present , both in terms of mental & body.
I had no problem's falling asleep at my normal time , but had i taken this after noon I could see sleep being a issue. Nothing was used to help aid sleep , but i tend to avoid taking a benzo at all costs while on psychedelics , as even if I'm fairly stimulated and would like to be asleep it's unbearable and doesn't come with the anxiety feeling I tend to get if I use a stim and want to get some sleep. I'll only keep them on hand while tripping in case of emergency situations to abort a trip (which I've only done during a rough 4-aco-dmt experience where I wasn't mentally fit for dosing that day/time).
Worth noting i fell asleep before i was back to baseline. The entire experience was very consistent , no intense peak and no sudden drop off just a very long drawn out enjoyable plateau.
As of writing this it's been about 28 hours since ingestion and have been in a good mood sense waking up , about 6.5-7 hours or decent sleep , no negative day after type feelings & if anything a bit of lingering psychedelia seemed present , up to a few hours after being awake.
I guess i can see where some may find the stimulation a bit much or "dirty" as I've seen it described but at no time did it bother me at all. Just be prepared for the long duration and plan accordingly if you want to sleep. Comparing it to the long duration PEA I have the most experience with , DOC , it's quite tame. But hard to give great comparison , as this is my first 3cp experience and on the rather low end dosage wise , where with DOC I've tested from 1mg-5mg (no tolerance , up to 8mg with tolerance and redosing). So far this seems much more manageable in the sense of going about day to day activities , appearing sober , and not as much residual stimulation. DOC can keep me up 24 hours easy , and 10-14 of those are after being nearly back to baseline , and while not nearly as annoying of a stimulated but wanting to sleep feeling as you'd have off a proper stim it does tend to get a little annoying and the last 4 hours following a DOC trip before i sleep I'm just feeling like I'm so over this , I just want to get rest. At the same time the trip from 3c-p is not nearly as intense or euphoric as my DOC trips have been , but i suppose this could get more intense as the dosage gets higher. Seems more fit for a subtle trip , something you can take and appear sober while going about your day , IMO better for enhancing normal daily activities , or daytime outdoor activities , whereas DOC i tend to want to stay in and am not nearly as comfortable in a social setting , and something like MDMA would be more fit for a party type scene. Not sure 3c-p would provide intense of an experience I'd like if my setting was more party oriented , aka a festival/show , but maybe mixed along side something in combination it would.
That last part being said I'm interested in any combinations that have paired well with 3c-p. Id be hesitant to combine with anything stimulating , but maybe some of the 4-sub tryptamines , simple tryptamines would go nicely with it. Perhaps 5-apdb or LSD. Have only a few combo's under my belt and has been PEA's combined with Tryptamines & MDMA+stimulant so no rush to test the waters as I'd prefer to become more familiar with 3c-p alone before trying to combine it & not to mention there's so little information out about 3c-p to begin with.
All in all very enjoyable. I find it strange it's not more widely available & there's so little information on it given i thought the experience was very nice. My prior PEA experience is DOC , HOT-7 , MDMA , 5-apdb , 5-apb , 25i&c (& i'd rank it in that order) and so far I'd place it above 5-apdb.
Out of the PEA I've experienced with I'd say it was most similar to HOT-7 , but I've only had 1 HOT-7 experience , on a rather small dose , and even so it was more intense then 3c-p and I imagine 3c-p overall is far less intense & more subtle then HOT-7 will be at higher doses. From my HOT-7 experience I could just tell that once i push this a little further I'm in for quite a intense trip , while with this I'm having doubts that a small jump in dosage will provide that much more of an intense experience. Only assumptions here though.
I also find it weird that erowid lists it just as a "stimulant" . I think Psychedelic or Euphoric Empathogen is more fitting. At the very least it's a Euphoric Stimulant , but even that would be misleading IMO.
Anywho , I've managed to get to rambling here so I'll be on my way now & will likely report back after my next experience , hopefully with as much or more positive things to say about 3c-p as I already have.
