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👃 Can people smell each other’s pheromones? Do people even have pheromones? These are the questions that have intrigued and puzzled many for centuries. Pheromones have been a source of fascination and debate, with some claiming that they play a significant role in human attraction and communication, while others believe they are nothing more than a myth.
In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the world of human pheromones, address the questions surrounding their existence and detection, and provide you with all the answers you need to satisfy your curiosity.
## What are pheromones?
Pheromones are chemical signals that are released by an organism and can elicit a specific response in other members of the same species. They are commonly associated with mating and reproductive behavior in animals, serving as a means of communication and attraction between individuals.
In the animal kingdom, pheromones play a critical role in various social and reproductive behaviors, such as marking territory, signaling alarm, and attracting potential mates. However, the presence and function of pheromones in humans have been a subject of much debate and controversy.
## Do humans have pheromones?
The existence of human pheromones has been a topic of scientific inquiry for decades, with contradictory findings and opinions. While some studies have suggested that humans do produce and respond to pheromones, others have found little evidence to support this claim.
### Evidence supporting human pheromones:
1. Research published in the journal *Nature* in 1986 suggested that women’s menstrual cycles could synchronize when exposed to the sweat of other women, indicating the presence of a chemical signal that could affect reproductive behavior.
2. A study conducted at the University of Chicago in 1998 found that exposure to androstadienone, a compound found in male sweat, could influence women’s mood and perception of attractiveness.
3. The vomeronasal organ, a specialized chemosensory structure in the nasal cavity, has been proposed as a potential site for pheromone detection in humans, suggesting that we may have the physiological capability to respond to pheromones.
## Can people smell each other’s pheromones?
While the evidence for the presence of human pheromones is still a matter of debate, the ability to consciously smell and detect them is even more contentious. Some individuals claim to have a heightened sensitivity to pheromones, being able to discern changes in another person’s scent related to their reproductive status, while others argue that pheromones play no role in human social interactions.
### Anecdotal evidence:
1. Many people have reported experiences where they have felt an immediate attraction or aversion to someone based solely on their scent, leading them to believe that pheromones were at play.
2. The existence of “pheromone perfumes” and colognes in the market suggests that there is a demand for products that claim to enhance attraction and communication through the use of synthetic pheromones.
3. Some individuals believe that certain natural scents, such as the smell of a newborn baby or a romantic partner, can elicit strong emotional and physiological responses, indicating the presence of powerful chemical signals.
## The scientific perspective:
Despite these subjective experiences and claims, the scientific community remains divided on the topic of human pheromone detection. While some studies have provided evidence of pheromone sensitivity and response in humans, others have failed to replicate these findings or attribute them to other factors such as genetics or individual differences.
### Contradictory findings:
1. A study published in the journal *Psychological Science* in 2015 challenged the validity of pheromone detection in humans, suggesting that previous research may have been influenced by experimental bias and subjective interpretation.
2. The complex nature of human social and olfactory perception makes it difficult to isolate the specific role of pheromones in attraction and communication, as they are often intertwined with cultural, psychological, and environmental factors.
## Conclusion:
In conclusion, the question of whether people can smell each other’s pheromones and if humans even have pheromones remains a topic of ongoing research and debate. While there is evidence to suggest the presence of chemicals that could function as pheromones in humans, the ability to consciously detect and respond to them is still uncertain.
As our understanding of human olfaction and chemical communication continues to evolve, it is essential to approach the topic of pheromones with an open mind and a critical perspective. Whether you believe in the power of pheromones or remain skeptical of their influence, the complex nature of human attraction and social behavior is a fascinating area of exploration that will continue to captivate our curiosity.
So, can people smell each other’s pheromones? The answer is not as straightforward as we might hope, but the ongoing scientific inquiry and personal experiences suggest that there may be more to our sense of smell than meets the eye… or nose. 🤔👃
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I have heard something like if someone’s body odor, doesn’t smell bad to you, then it means that you’re genetic/immune system opposites? Something like that. So you will be able to have very healthy offspring or something. Don’t quote me on that though.
I heard that a marriage counselor always considered it a red flag if one of the couples that came in complained of their partner smelling bad (despite adequate hygiene). She said that those couples usually ended in divorce.
I don’t know the science behind it, but people definitely smell different to me and I don’t mean when they’re wearing perfume or cigarette smoke etc. No idea why, maybe it’s pheromones. It’s kind of hard to explain what I experience. I have no idea if other people experience it too, maybe I’m talking BS, who knows. I have heard of people being able to detect certain health conditions through smell but it’s rare. I can’t smell certain changes in people like when they’re on their period or sick etc, I don’t know if anyone can smell it based on pheromones. Periods have a certain smell to them so maybe that’s what people pick up on. It’s not really noticeable unless you get close to someone’s arse or they haven’t washed themselves properly but once you smell it, it’s a really strong smell. It’s not just the smell of blood, it smells a bit different to that.
To me, every person has their own natural smell, and I can’t actually describe how someone smells because it doesn’t smell like anything else. You either know the smell I’m talking about or you don’t. It’s quite subtle but I usually pick up on it, especially when it’s someone I don’t live with or see often. It’s a bit like if you go into someone’s house, it usually smells very different sometimes to the point of making you feel uncomfortable. Everyone in my family has a similar smell but it is still slightly different
I believe in them! Haven’t you ever kissed someone, felt nothing/didn’t particularly care for the way they taste/they don’t really taste or smell like anything….and then you kiss someone and they taste so good, even the smell of their breath in the morning isn’t bad?! I remember when my husband and I started dating I told him we should kiss because then we would know if this was worth pursuing.
I used to see my ex a lot after he worked out and I always loved his scent and found it so distinct. Everyone around me mentioned how bad and sweaty he smelled but I genuinely never noticed or smelled anything
I believe pheromones played a role
As a random guy with blue eyes. The two things were my smell or eyes for all the hookups. Smell has to be a thing, unless they just weren’t used to anyone smelling clean. Which will have to make me self reflect.
We produce pheromones but our sense of smell is garbage so we can’t detect it.
I apparently get very touchy feely with my wife when she’s ovulating so there might be some truth to this smell theory
*”sniff sniff, she’s ovulating!”* 😂😂😂wtf man
I’ve done a lot of smelling, and yes they’re real. It’s a shame we want to hide them and cover up with other chemical smells.
I love women’s pheromones
Possibly maybe. If humans do make pheremones (which is still a debate in itself), no one has isolated a chemical compound that acts as a human pheremone. So all the pheremone perfunes are bs, people smelling pheremones may or may not be bs. But if human pheremones exist they are waaay less potent/vital than pheremones that other animals secrete.
No. We don’t have the equipment to sense them.
There’s some evidence of pheromones because strippers ovulating make more money.
But no pheromone sensing cells have been detected in the human nose unlike other animals.
The jury is still out.
Honestly I didn’t believe it until I moved out. Me and roommates are besties and there have been times where they smelled unnaturally good without taking a shower or anything. Especially jarring because I usually can’t smell much, but generally have no issue smelling his pheramones
There are a lot of people who “believe in it” like healing crystals, and lots who are confusing smell preference for the effect of pheromones.
The real scientific perspective is: maybe. If they exist at all in humans, they don’t have a definite and specific effect as they do in some animals (which is actually part of the definition of a pheromone). Also, we humans have a shrunken or totally absent vomeronasal organ (except when we are a fetus), which is mostly where the receptor action of pheromones happens .
Chances are, there could be some substances that have weak and widely variable effects if applied directly under the nose – maybe. I doubt there will be one identified that does anything much in a practical setting, but who knows. As yet, none have been isolated.
The pheromone perfume is snake oil, 100%.
I LOVE the wafty stench that comes from my Dear Husbands arm pits…his ball sweat, not so much.
Yes.
I can’t explain the science of it but there are a few people in my life that have smelled heavenly without cologne and I have had a strong desire to want to be near them or with them. There was serious attraction just based on scent alone. It was absolutely intoxicating. It’s kind of creepy actually.
However, I cannot say I can smell EVERYONE’S pheromones.
There are just certain people that have smelled INCREDIBLY good even at an arms length and it’s unexplainable other than pheromones. Even someone who has sweat profusely and I was covered in their sweat drenched shirt. I just wanted to hug them and smell them and maybe rip their shirt off. Lol. I didn’t, but it’s a weird urge – just based on smell.
I have also been absolutely repulsed by certain people from how they smell. I don’t know if that’s the pheromones at work or not. I definitely got a high off of a few people’s smell before and the repulsion is a different feeling, for sure.
I feel like it’s more detecting compatible pheromones than actually smelling.
Think of someone you’ve been attracted to and wondered why? Perhaps they aren’t your usual type or you don’t find them physically attractive but there is something about them. Pheromones play a part there.
My current partner and I are crazy about smelling each other and talk about how the pheromones are strong with us. It’s that fresh new and exciting time when you’re with someone and you feel dreamy just sitting next to them. Pheromones.
I don’t know if it was pheromones exactly, but an ex of mine used to smell reallllly good sometimes. I would tell her when I thought this, and one day she said “you can smell when I’m horny”. I’ve only ever smelled something like this with her and one other woman. My current girlfriend is horny very frequently, but I never notice a strong smell either way. I think certain people are just tuned in to other peoples particular scents for whatever reason.
Last time I read up on it, it went like this. Pheromones are real. We use them in studying animals and insects. Many of them we synthesize the pheromone to use.
Scientific evidence of human pheromones is problematic. Testing people to see if they react in similar ways shows evidence the pheromones are there. Furthermore, some studies have captured human pheromones but they seem to break down very quickly, so studying them is problematic. This means some people will tell you they don’t exist, while others will.
As for whether some company has discovered a way to synthesize human pheromones and making them stable enough they can put them in a cologne, it’s highly doubtful.
Edit postscript: I believe in human pheromones.
They’ve done studies, you know. Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.
Oh trust me i can definitely smell other people.
The blatant scientific misinformation in this thread is giving me a headache. No wonder the average person finds STEM hard — it would be hard when you actually have to back your claims with 95% confidence instead of just “perhaps”. No, we cannot claim with confidence that human pheromones exist nor can we claim that we can even perceive them — our vomeronasal organ doing nothing but chemoreception is evidence of this. It’s so embarrassing that people are vehemently promoting an idea that can be disproven with a single google search.
yes and yes.
Though usually not the same way we smell smells. So it’s not as easy as saying f. ex. “testosterone smells like banana” much more subtil in “smell” but very effective.
Usually the one more sensually perceived by most is the smell of “fear”.
Dior is my pheromone. 🫡 it works.
I don’t know if its pheromones but I can for sure smell when women are on their period or pregnant (even weeks before it shows). The better I know the women the more likely I am to detect.
There was a study done a while ago, I believe it was the late ’90s where they had a bunch of guys bathe with unscented soap, then wear a T-shirt for a day without any scented products. They had women smell the shirts and rank the smell for most attractive to least attractive. They analyze the women’s ranking with genetic comparison data and found that women preferred the scent of men who were fairly genetically similar, but not too genetically similar. Essentially their conclusion was that humans are attracted to others who are fairly genetically similar to increase productive offspring, but not too genetically similar to reduce the risk of inbreeding.
I once read in a book that people are more attracted to partners who have a different immune system, and it’s detectable by smell.
I’m gonna go with yes. I sniffed my friend once in high school and was like, damn you smell so good. It was literally her BO. I’m a lesbian so I’m obviously wired to like girl smells.
Scientifically this is dubious. Scientists have found that in primates it is the vomeronasal organ, which is near the nose, that is involved in detecting pheromones. Humans don’t have a vomeronasal organ, having evolved , for most, not have it. Like maybe around 25% have one but it doesn’t seem to work. Here’s an explanation from Wikipedia:
> Among studies that use microanatomical methods, there is no reported evidence that human beings have active sensory neurons like those in working vomeronasal systems of other animals. Furthermore, there is no evidence to date that suggests there are nerve and axon connections between any existing sensory receptor cells that may be in the adult human VNO and the brain. Likewise, there is no evidence for any accessory olfactory bulb in adult human beings, and the key genes involved in VNO function in other mammals have pseudogenized in human beings. Therefore, while many debate the structure’s presence in adult human beings, a review of the scientific literature by Tristram Wyatt concluded that on current evidence, “most in the field… are skeptical about the likelihood of a functional VNO in adult human beings.”
If this key mechanism of pheromone processing doesn’t exist in humans how can humans have pheromones that have any effect? Despite great interest in this area, no clear effect has been seen that is akin to animal pheromone processing. Indicating even if something is there, it’s so weak and minimal that it’s too insignificant to observe despite a lot of looking
Well, it’s a well-known fact that women who live in the same household have their menstrual cycles aligned with each other. The only existing explanation for this phenomenon is pheromones.
Mythbusters did a thing on it. We have some faint ability to smell familiar ones, but perfumes and such are probably snake oil garbage.
“Take a shower, then get all sweaty working out. Then take a pealed apple and rub it in your sweaty pits. Have the girl you’re into smell the apple, if she likes the smell she digs your pheromones and it’s meant to be” -some wives tale I heard once, love to actually hear how it worked for someone.
I think that human pheromones are real, but that the expression of them is highly variable. I can tell you that I know a woman who you can often tell when she’s nearby, or has been recently, whether you can see her or not. She wears no perfume or anything like that, she has no noticeable scent, but whenever she’s around people perk up.
I don’t know, but I do remember reading that if you like the smell someone has naturally, then they are potentially a good genetic match for you
Yes you have pheromones and you can absolutely smell pheromones. It’s one of the best predictors for compatibility in humans. You’re not always conscious of it though, so you might not notice noticing it which can make pheromones feel a lil ineffable.
It’s also our bodies incest prevention system. Do you ever notice that your family members BO or pee smells WAY worse than friends/strangers? That’s cause y’alls pheromones are too similar so your bodies treating it as extra gross – 10/10 do not fuck.
I swear by that perfume because I only get attention if I’m wearing it
We have them but their effects are limited because of modern hygiene: Deodorant, perfume, showers, and clothing amongst other things all have an effect.
I feel like it’s a more subliminal or subconscious thing. like u sense it, u know it’s there, but can not show, or prove it
I do know that when somebody sweats and is nervous or scared their sweat has chemicals in it that signaled to other humans around them that they should be nervous or scared. So we sense somethings like that.
They found that the people who are nervous and scared are making other people subtly uncomfortable.
Tbh I think they are real
Yes, some of us can discern pheromones by smell.
Some people emit a LOT of pheromones, some barely a trace.
Some situations produce lots of pheromones.
Some people respond very strongly, others not so much.
Edit: not everybody realizes they’re reacting.
I’ve met a few women with the exact pheromones my body was looking for. Some people would call it love at first sight, I knew it was lust at first sniff.
As for situations, here’s an example. A 19 year old couple has been fooling around for a few hours (yes hours, if only to be young again like that!) while the parents were out for the evening.
Parents return and the whole house has that funky smell, and if you ever smell it you’ll know in an instant what it is. People have been having sex and sweating like crazy.
Mop that sweat up on a shirt and wear it to a night club and you will attract people like moths to a flame. Wear it to a swingers club and you’ll be having sex in the bathroom before you know it.
They are real. I have been able to smell them my entire life. I was a horrible kid to play hide and seek with because I could smell everyone out. Towards middle school and high school it got insane. All it would take is just a whiff walking thru the corridors between classes and I would be hard as a rock. Never have a sexual thought but immediate hard on. Another funny thing about pheromones is that each person has a distinct smell. and I would remember the smell faster than I could remember their name.
People who eat lots of sweets and sodas have the worst pheromones smell, its kind of a cross between super musky dead wood smell and a over powering scent of raw fatty hamburger meat. with just a hint of a floral twinge on the end of it. But all kinds of medications cause weird smell changes to pheromones also.
But yea, they are very real.
They’re real and we detect them, but it’s entirely subconscious. Pheromones are odorless, it is a chemical signal we smell but don’t register consciously. It informs our drives and attractions in ways we don’t really understand. As much as we like to forget it, humans are animals and we are driven by instinct like the rest.