Distantly-related animals all avoid a common "smell of death" that has a long evolutionary history, scientists discover.

Posted on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 1504 GMT at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sea...232607.stm

Oleic and linoleic acids - the perfect go away pheromone combo?

Diane

(09-09-2009 3:12 PM)Diane999 Wrote:  Oleic and linoleic acids - the perfect go away pheromone combo?

I remember a 99 year old friend was dieing at home. I was helping to care for him while he was in bed in a coma for about two weeks and his room took on a distinctive scent. To this day, I can not wear Androstenone Pheromone Concentrate (a scent added, low powered ~none product used for its scent sold at Love-Scent) because the scents are so similar.

(09-09-2009 12:20 PM)PheroTruth Staff Wrote:  Distantly-related animals all avoid a common "smell of death" that has a long evolutionary history, scientists discover.

Some evidence suggests that their is also a common smell of life (e.g., from insects to elephants).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16758...d_RVDocSum

Insect pheromones and precursors in female African elephant urine. Goodwin The Edge, Eggert MS, House SJ, Weddell ME, Schulte BA, Rasmussen LE. J Chem Ecol. 2006 Aug;32(8):1849-53. Epub 2006 Jun 7.

James V. Kohl

(09-09-2009 5:04 PM)jvkohl Wrote:  Some evidence suggests that their is also a common smell of life (e.g., from insects to elephants).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16758...d_RVDocSum

Insect pheromones and precursors in female African elephant urine. Goodwin The Edge, Eggert MS, House SJ, Weddell ME, Schulte BA, Rasmussen LE. J Chem Ecol. 2006 Aug;32(8):1849-53. Epub 2006 Jun 7.

James V. Kohl

And I believe we are all very attracted to certain floral scents for the same reason.

Diane

(09-09-2009 7:35 PM)Diane999 Wrote:  And I believe we are all very attracted to certain floral scents for the same reason.

Diane

An excellent point! A colleague presented on a substance that she believed was important to spermatazoa in finding an ovum. I subsequently learned that the common name for it is also attributed to the odor of a particular flower, though I have not had time to follow-up on this--despite the potential for commercial application. It seem likely to me that the odor might be part of what men find pleasing about the natural odor of fertile women.

James V. Kohl
http://www.pheromones.com