Ecstasy has attracted wide-spread attention with its association as a “recreational substance” that is concentrated in club and rave settings. This paper outlines a phenomenologically grounded ethnographic study of the lifeworlds of ecstasy users in the Sydney, Australia. I espouse existential-phenomenology as a framework for describing and understanding these experiences. In this endeavour I draw inspiration from Strasser’s adaptation of Husserl’s phenomenology into social science research. A number of excerpts are presented from my primary corpus of ethnographic material. For the purposes of this paper I assemble a number of key categories into 6 thematic areas: 1) initial reactions and peaking 2) the rush 3) plateau 4) coming down/ scattering 5) love 6) P.L.U.R 7) unificatory experiences 8) returning to baseline. The typical experiences presented in some of these reports confirm existing works in qualitative research. Others suggest that a more context specific approach is necessary. Hence I call for more phenomenologically attuned research within the current marginalisation of ethnographic studies in the Australian and international drug research.