Based on this recent scientific study – http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/homosexual_brains – John Stewart recently did a bit on The Daily Show: “A recent study shows that both heterosexual women and homosexual men are aroused by the scent of the male hormone testosterone. However, and not surprisingly, no one of any sex or sexual orientation shows any response at all to Tag Body Spray!” [audience laughs]
What about that? If pheromones really do play a part in sexual attraction, shouldn’t there be a “pheromone-based” cologne on the market that actually works, on a level beyond simply transmitting a pleasant odor? Are there any that do?
I ask purely out of intellectual curiousity, of course.
There was a cologne called “Realm” that came out about 10 years ago or so. It’s a nice-smelling cologne that was touted as having some sort of pheremonal additive. In my “scientific” research I found that it got strong reactions from women. It wasn’t like “Oh my god, suddenly I don’t see your receding hairline or beer gut and I have no idea why.” The women were aware of what they smelled and why they liked it… they appreciated a “manly” smell and they said this fragrance hit that note for them. No idea as to what sort of science or chemistry is behind this fragrance.
Dr. Winifred Cutler, co-discoverer of human pheromones and President of the Athena Institute, swears that Athena’s 10X will work miracles. She even wrote the pheromone chapter in a medical textbook.
Step 1: Build computer empire in your Seattle basement.
Step 2: Proceed to market said empire to millions.
Step 3: Rub resulting billions of dollars all over your geeky body and watch the women come running, heaving breasts and all.
Athena 10X is Effective for 74% in 8 week published scientific study. Not guaranteed to work for all, since body chemistries differ, but will work for most. Cosmetics not aphrodesiacs.
Ok I bought some of that Anderstone (sp) off Ebay, just ouf of curiosity. I swear.
Anyway a little background. I’m pretty shy with women and barely make eyecontact and maybe a nod of the head and a sound that is not unlike hello.
Now the floor I work on has several young women of appropriate age but I never speak to them and they by and large, ignore me.
So I put this stuff on in my office.
Then I realize that there is nobody else in my office so I go out for lunch. Two women from another office on the same floor share the elevator with me. I’ve seen these two a hundred times and they really do ignore me.
But not this time.
After standing there while waiting for the elevator they started a conversation with me. One of them asked what colonge I was wearing and asked if it was Canoe. I said yes and she replied that she really liked Canoe.
Then the ride was over and we went our seperate ways.
But that stuff never happens to me. Now I don’t think it would make them throw themselves at me like an AXE commercial but it did break the ice. (and I fell in the ice and died of hyperthermia).
I’ve been told by a few women that women appreciate the fact that a man goes to the trouble to try to make himself smell good as much or more than the scent itself. It bespeaks confidence and self-esteem and a good self-image, all of which are factors women admire.
Perhaps this played a role in your elevator escapade, zebra. It could be the women admired the fact that you were wearing Canoe as much as they admired the Canoe itself.
Got a male friend who goes the opposing route and says that he wears women’s perfume instead of cologne because women respond better to it than they ever would to cologne. His reasoning is that since it’s a “female” perfume, and perfume is marketed towards women, they’re naturally going to be attracted to it.
He’s married at this point so I haven’t seen his theory in action, but it does make a certain, albeit funky, kind of sense.
And I remember reading somewhere (no cite so this is just apocryphal) that women respond on an instinctive pheremone-level to the smell of another woman on a man. IOW, that’s why a man who’s already involved gets hit on a lot more than a single man. (I do have a lot of male friends who swear this is true.) Women supposedly “smell” a man who’s got a woman; in their minds, that makes him a surer bet, b/c some other woman’s already staked her claim, so that makes him more desirable.
In the article I read, it’s the female pheremone that Ax Body Spray copyrighted, for that reason; it’s a female pheremone and it makes women smell other women, which makes a guy more attractive.
Again, no clue if there’s any science behind any of that. But it did explain that weird phenomenon of The Guy Who Has A Girl Getting Hit On All The Time vs. his single state, when He Couldn’t Score To Save His Life.
I always thought of the Chris Rock bit, where he goes on about having a girlfriend… When you have a girlfriend, she wipes the crust out of your eyes, cleans you up, makes you presentable. So that when you have a woman to keep up for, other women notice you’re kept up, basically. That made more sense to me than “women want men who are with other women” because, biologically, that doesn’t make much sense.
Why would a woman want to mate with a man who is mating with another woman regularly? It makes sense from the man’s view, but not the woman’s.
As for the pheromone issue, I thought it was irrelevant for humans, as we no longer have the sense (heh) to distinguish pheromones.
I don’t know if I should link to off board stuff, as it’s a community at LJ, but there are a bunch of folks who’ve used pheremone sprays and such from a certain company, and all of them swear that they’re getting more attention. Personally, I’d wager it might be partially a placebo affect. If you think that you’re irrestable to women, you might just be more confident, relaxed, etc…
I think that’s the first time someone linked to a thread I started! I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate the research you did for that thread, Maastricht.
