Your Two Scents
It’s been a recorded scientific fact for a very long time that a large part of communication in all animals, humans included, is non-verbal. The way you stand, how you meet another’s eyes, the gestures made, and the posture you use all indicate something about who you are and what your real intentions are, or might be. In animals this can also include scents that are given off which are referred to as pheromones, or singularly, as a pheromone. It is these chemicals which make so much known in the animal kingdom. For instance, a male marking his territory leaves a definite pheromone. So too a female in heat puts a certain scent into the air which could draw males from miles around if the wind is right. For members of the same animal species, the smell of pheromones is as clear and understandable as any written language exchanged among humans.
Humans, like any other animals, also release pheromones. Pheromones are released particularly when we sweat, which is why the smell of “clean sweat” is often seen as stimulating and erotic to the opposite sex, whereas sweat that has been sitting for a time and has begun to host bacteria smells repugnant.
Many companies, siezing on this biological truth, have tried to persuade consumers to buy pheromone products. Most often these products are perfumes, aftershaves, or even deodorants which are supposed to release the smell of natural, human pheromones and make the wearer appear more desireable, if not downright irresistable, to the opposite sex. All sorts of outlandish promises are made to persuade people to buy pheromone enhanced products, but the truth is that people are usually better off depending on their own, natural pheromone output when it comes to social situations. If you have to buy pheromone laced aids, then what’s going to happen when you run out?
