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Do Pheromones Work?

Author: Stacey Nathan
by Stacey Nathan
Posted: Jan 22, 2014

Almost everyone recognizes the power of scent. Food wouldn't taste the same without smell. Dirty things would not repulse us so much without our sense of smell. Along the same lines, our attraction to other people wouldn't quite resonate in the same way without a highly tuned feeling for the scents they project, whether naturally or by using perfumes. But does the human body produce its own chemical signals, such as pheromones, and do they work? Scientists have spent years researching this subject and uncovered some provocative facts about it.

Scientists have definitely found particular substances in animals and insects that perform different functions to help them communicate. Many animals, for example, exhibit different chemicals in their saliva when they are in heat. In effect, they are telling members of the opposite sex that they are ready to mate. In particular, pigs release a steroid into the saliva call androstenone. Humans also produce this, which has led researchers to posit that it might play a similar role in different organisms. Researchers have identified a correlation between the presence of this substance and female attraction, but they add that further studies should be conducted to narrow this reaction down to a single chemical.

The difficulty with this in humans is that researchers have to parse cause and effect. This can be quite challenging. For example, when the weather gets warm again in the spring, people shed some layers of clothing and possibly release more signals to the opposite sex, which is why we talk about springtime romances. However, it could just be that seeing more body parts exposed turns people on more. Obviously, when it comes to broad generalizations like this, more research will have to be done.

We also know that people create memories based on sights, sounds and smells from the past. So, the smell of a particular person, even if it wasn't particularly nice, could become associated with positive emotions of love and romance. In a sort of scent-based Proustian moment, people will feel positive and nostalgic feelings if they encounter another person with a similar scent. So, it seems like some of the same chemicals that animals use might also function in humans, but more research will have to be done. What we do know is that the cocktail of different elements that make a person smell a certain way can evoke different emotional states.

This also means that preferences for different smells can develop over time. A person from India, for example, might not respond to the same odors that a person from France would. However, a person who grew up in India might develop an attraction to the smells of Europe after living there and experiencing the people and places associated with those smells. Pheromones in humans might work in the same way, according to researchers. People may come to respond to certain ones depending on their life experience.

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