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NSFW, really NSFW. Will we ever discover human pheromones and use them in perfumes and colognes?

Asked by ETpro (34605points) November 23rd, 2012

This question sparked my interest in today’s TGIF query. I’m not really enamored with perfumes. They smell nice enough, but they mask the scent of woman; and that mysterious, wonderful scent is beyond sublime—beyond anything known to the perfumer’s art. Up close and personal, the scent reaches the deepest parts of my brain, acting on my unconsciousness mind, my limbic system and nerve centers throughout my body to drive me crazy with desire. Are there pheromones at work? Research isn’t yet clear on this. Here’s a set of links that cover what we currently know and suspect about human pheromones:
Do humans react to sex pheromones?
What is the scent of woman?
How does female ejaculate smell?
What’s in female ejaculate?
How about the body scent of man?
How about male genital scent?

Of course a little goes a long way, but I like the underarm body odor of a woman. Perhaps it’s a holdover from the pleasure of breast feeding as an infant. And I’m not alone. Consider that Napoleon wrote to his mistress, Josephine, “I’ll be back in three days’ time. Don’t wash.”

Furthermore, I absolutely adore the scent of a healthy female’s natural genital secretions. If you’ve heard the garbage about it smelling like fish, you’re either listening to somebody who has no earthly idea what they are talking about or you need to see your gynecologist, because you have a yeast infection or some such.

Healthy, reasonably clean vaginas smell divine. And there is never any need to douche them to keep them clean. Nature takes care of inner cleansing.

What’s more, when I am going down on a woman and she ejaculates (and yes, some do and it most definitely isn’t pee.) the sudden change in her vaginal odor grabs my reptilian brain right at the base of my backbone, and absolutely drives me to the outer limits of lust. Sorry for the graphic language, but I want to be clear on why I expect we will discover human pheromones regardless of the current lack of scientific proof that they exist. Our modern insistence on squeaky clean hygiene and masking our natural scents to keep others from smelling our own humanity could easily be why we have yet to prove pheromones influence humans just as profoundly as they do the birds and the bees.

Men, what does your experience suggest? Women, what’s your reaction to the natural body and sexual smells of a male partner?

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