Answering the Question: Do Human Beings Have Pheromones?

Pheromones are powerful chemicals created and secreted by any living organism. However, do human beings have pheromones? This was a question that was debated up until the mid 1980s and here is what scientists have found out.

The Role of Pheromones

The main role of pheromones in most living organisms is to attract one another but also to emit signals, warnings, mark a territory and/or recognize its own species. Pheromones released by a specific species can usually only be detected by its kind and that is why humans sometimes will use them in traps for animals especially in the mating season.

The question, do human beings have pheromones often comes up because if they do, how come they don’t use it to attract one another because usually it is not a particular scent that makes us like a person but it is his/or her personality and appearance. Yes, human beings do have pheromones according to various research studies conducted all over the world. However, we don’t use them in any form to show our presence and/or attract the opposite sex.

Even today many people still debate the question of whether human beings have pheromones or not simply because we don’t react in the same way animals and other living organisms do. We do react to pheromones but strangely enough not our own but to those released by insects and plants and found in essential oils, perfume and candles.

Human Reactions to Pheromones

Human beings do have pheromones but they don’t use them as the animals do; in fact they rarely find each other’s bodily scent attractive. However, when you combine it with other existing pheromones secreted by insects and plants you will get a whole different picture. Perfumes are a common way that human beings use to enhance their body scent and make themselves attractive. Even though many perfume manufacturers suggest that their fragrance will make you irresistible, it is not true.

Many people are allergic to perfume and in that case you will not be able to use it in order to make yourself more appealing. You will have to rely on the fact that human beings do have pheromones and hope that they will do the trick for your allergic perfume partner.

There are many debates still going on today regarding the question ‘do human beings have pheromones?’ simply because we cannot sense or use them the way other living organism do. However, many agree that every one of us has a specific body scent that even when mixed with a natural perfume is unique. Haven’t there been times when you know a person was there because he or she left a scent filled with pheromones behind?