The Femblossom has quite a few massage modes. Each mode is accompanied with heat, there is no way to separately control the heat. I personally find this a flaw, as the heat takes about 10-15 minutes to heat up and you have to have the vibrations on during that time as well. Emotional Bliss recommends leaving the massager on high for that length of time before using it so that the heat has time to catch up. Which, is kind of annoying because first off, the massager is pretty loud, and secondly because that means you have to prepare for using this toy. If you want to use the heat function this is not a grab and use toy. The booklet also says that you should not leave it running under a pillow or blanket, which blew my idea for leaving it under a pillow to muffle the sound while it warmed up!
There is nine different modes though, which is pretty awesome. The heat is figured out on a color scale pertaining to each mode. There is three heat levels. Which are basically a low, medium, and high and therefore correspond to the low, medium, and high vibration levels.
Yellow - 95 degrees Fahrenheit/ 35 degrees Celsius
Orange - 107 degrees Fahrenheit/ 42 degrees Celsius
Red - 122 degrees Fahrenheit/ 50 degrees Celsius
The vibration modes are as follows:
1. Low Constant Mode - yellow
2. Medium Constant Mode - orange
3. High Constant Mode - red
4. Low Pulse Mode - yellow
5. Medium Pulse Mode - orange
6. High Pulse Mode - red
7. Saw Mode - orange (Most people will be familiar with saw mode being called escalating or step mode)
8. Strong Triangle Mode - orange (This one is a rollercoaster pattern of escalating and de-escalating)
9. Very Strong Pulse Mode - orange (This one is a short-short-long pulse)
As I said above these modes are LOUD. They're strong too, but they don't seem quite strong enough to justify the noise they make. Forget through a closed door...this massager could be heard through a whole house. Ok, maybe not the whole house..but it's loud. REALLY loud. My husband even joked that if we leave it going too long the neighbors are going to knock on the door to see if someone is running a chainsaw in the house. He was being facetious, but only a little! It definitely sounds like a kitchen appliance, and a loud one at that. Actually, the sound comes closest to the loud hair trimmer that we have. Last night we were popping some popcorn with a hot air popper (and if you have one of those you know how loud they can be) and you could still easily hear the massager on over that noise.
The vibrations themselves are strong, but they kind of feel more like surface type vibrations and they feel a little "cheap". It's hard to really explain what I mean, but I think it's the plastic material of the massager that makes it feel cheapish. The whole massager kinds of rattles with it. If you focus strictly on the ones that come through the rubbery finished part they are better. And that is, afterall, the place that really matters since that's the area that will be against the clitoris or other erogenous zone.
The heat is definitely a nice touch and it's really nice to have the warmth against sensitive skin. Much better than the feel of cold plastic against the body, it's very soothing and arousing. I didn't find it too hot, it was the temperature of a hot bath, not anything irritating or painful. After trying the heat of this toy I wish more of my toys would heat up!
The Femblossom Heat is rechargeable with the included AC adapter. The instruction booklet says that it should be charged for 12 hours to provide a full charge and that it will not hurt the motor to be charged longer. The booklet has a section for the Isis and Chandra in which it says that those should not be left without a charge, but it doesn't specify if that is the case for the Femblossom as well. It does tell you that if you don't allow a full 12 hour charge it will not last nearly as long. To be on the safe side I have been plugging mine in after each use since it won't hurt it to do so. This is most likely what will happen for most anyway, since the charge is not all that long lasting. After maybe 30 minutes of use it's to the point that if you leave it for a few hours and go back to it it won't turn on. It dies pretty rapidly and without much warning, which is pretty disappointing.