“Don’t wash, I’m coming home” – Napoleon
We spend as much money to take smell off us as we do putting smells on us, eg perfume. The word “pharamones” is relatively new, it’s only 50 years old.
Nobody has systematically gone through all the molecules that we give off to find out which combinations are most attractive. They just chose a few combinations & experimented to see which works best.
‘Pheromone’ is a chemical transmitted between individuals of the same species.
Smell is very important to our souls.
We discovered that the pheromone was how male dogs could smell (or certainly can sense) when female dogs were on heat. The chemical that was given off by females was synthesised & when the synthesised chemical was given to the opposite sex dog it drives them mad, the artificial pheromone for the dog was discovered. That, however, hasn’t been found in humans.
It’s particularly about what we learn as we age. When we are toddlers we just find smelly things as interesting. As we grow we form an identity.
We all have our own unique smell, like a identity smell. The nose is directly linked to the brain, it is directly beneath it. The nose has different receptors for different molecules. Just to get very specific, humans have about 400 receptors.
The molecules are odourless when they come out from the glands. It is only the bacteria our culture may produce which makes the molecules that leaves our bodies smell.
Here’s where I learned all the above information. See it here;https://www.ted.com/talks/tristram_wyatt_the_smelly_mystery_of_the_human_pheromone?language=en