Pheromone Perfumes - How well do scientists think they work?

[simmy]

Perfumery is one of the sciences of chemistry, so what do you think? I've just finished reading a story by Roald Dahl about a perfume that made any woman who wore it completely irresistible. I know pheromone perfumes are meant to make people more attractive. Is there any way they could make someone irresistible?

[thor3436]

that would be pretty cool . i bet it would be a compound of lithium
because it has emotional properties that are only barely understood
i bet chemists will find that out pretty quick

[heidi]

I admire you simmy for not starting off saying 'I have this friend who wants to know.....'

Seriously, I think there is so much more to the 'chemistry' of attraction between people than their smell. So I don't think anyone could be made irresistable in real life by a scent all by itself.

[thor3436]

they might make some people be with you but you wouldn't be irresistible .

[whitfield]

A few years back a friend (yes Heidi, it was a friend of mine, not me ) bought one of these pheromone perfumes and wore it a couple of times. As far as I know it made no difference to his attractiveness to ladies.

[Paul Robbins]

One of my friends used these and said they definitely worked for him. Whether it was the pheromones, or whether he felt more self-confident because he was wearing the pheromones I can't say.