Pheromones are natural chemical compounds the body produces in order to attract the opposite sex . They are well recognized in the animal kingdom as the controlling force of all social and sexual behavior. Research is now revealing that these unseen sexual magnets also heavily influence human behavior.

The word "pheromone" is derived from the Greek "pherin", which means to carry, and “hormone”, which means to excite.

Do humans have pheromones ?

Yes! There is an ample scientific proof that show that human body odour affects sexual behaviour. Body sweat and vaginal secretions affect other people's sexual functioning, even when the odours cannot be consciously smelled.

Human pheromones are invisible, odourless, and invisible, and major changes are going on in the body in the form of chemical reactions as pheromones are being produced.

Pheromones are natural scents, which play an important role in sexual behaviour. Humans release loads of organic chemicals in tears, saliva and perspiration. A dominant person will exude more of these biological attractants, and consequently easily attract more of the opposite sex .

How pheromones are produced -

In humans, pheromones are secreted onto the skin through the apocrine or the human scent glands. The apocrine glands are normally connected to hairy areas such as armpits and the crotch area.

Apocrine glands get functional during puberty, along with hair growth in the armpit and crotch region. Certain pheromones are directly related to hormones in the body, and so high levels of these hormones cause high levels of the related pheromones to be released.

Pheromones are subconsciously detected by the opposite sex, and thereby elicit an internal and natural sexual response.

Pheromone sensing falls under the category of chemosensing - quite similar to the way we smell. Human sense of smell is called olfaction, but pheromones are believed to be detected and processed through an accessory olfactory system, called the Vomeronasal System.

This consists of vomeronasal pits situated somewhere in the nose or the mouth, at the bottom of which lies the vomeronasal organ (VNO), which is where cells dedicated for detecting pheromones lie. From here, signals are sent by nerves to the accessory olfactory bulbs, which is the part of the brain responsible for processing the information transmitted by the pheromones, as well as arbitrating a response. The pheromones travel through the nose and stimulate the hypothalamus in the cortex of the brain. This is the area of the brain that produces emotional response. Emotions such as attraction, sexual desire and arousal. Men secrete the pheromone Androstenone to attract women, and women secrete Androstenol to attract men.

In humans, pheromone sensing is an open question, since some scientific studies cast a doubt over the existence of VNO in humans.

This is because, there is no scientific evidence proving that the VNO is imperative for pheromones to be detected, and current assumption is leaning towards the idea that VNO is not the crucial pheromone sensing organ it was once thought to be.

We mostly wash away all of our natural scents of attraction, or camouflage it with anti-perspirants. Humans have lost much of the natural triggers, though the new pheromone products in the market are trying to cash on the human sixth sense.  

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