LTU 6 Log

[Shannon]

How can you smell pheromones? How does it smell?

If you smell your arm at the end of a day when you took a shower either in the morning, or the previous day, you'll smell your own pheromones.  When you get sweaty, your body releases pheromones.  That arm pit funk you wash away?  Pheromones.  That smell of the skin on a girl's neck that is intoxicating?  Pheromones.  The way your crotch smells?  Pheromones.  

Pheromones most commonly smell like sweat, but the specifics change according to what pheromone(s) you're smelling, and whether you're male or female, gay, straight or bisexual, how old you are and how genetically close or distant you are from the person who's pheromones you're smelling.

You smell your own pheromones all the time, and generally when they become obvious to you, they won't smell good because you are a 100% match to yourself genetically.  But your girlfriend might find that same funk you hate to be irresistibly sexually arousing and attractive, if she is different enough from you genetically.  I've had that with a few girlfriends.

Pheromones smell different to different people.  Androstenone, the primary male sex pheromone, smells like sweat to most guys, but will either smell like cat urine or extremely sexually attractive to women, depending on age and how genetically different they are from the person who produced it.  I have done experiments wearing androstenone where I didn't cover it with fragrance, and in the same day had multiple different women comment that I smelled like cat urine and I needed to take a shower, and multiple other women the same day tell me I smelled extremely sexy.

Depends on what pheromone and a bunch of other factors as to what they smell like.