(11-20-2012 3:50 AM)Mara ~ Love Potion Wrote:  I apologize for intruding, but just FYI - this is the entire basis behind Love Potion fragrances. We have been blending plant, animalic and even insect derived scents for well over 25 years without pheromones, but with pheromonal effects.

It does make sense how scents can have an pheromone like effect without being "Pheromones".

I've had some very short discussions with JKV about this and he is a strong believer in seperating pheromones and "other chemosignal molecules".

I'm all for locating non-pheromone putatives that have pheromone effects on humans regardless of species of origin.

It goes to reason that plants that produce smells do it attract insects or other animals to help them in pollination. Seems sexual in a plant way. But the chemicals they produce are not endogenous to the bug, but rather a close analog of the bugs chemical that works just as well, or better. I'm sure that some plants attract animals in the same way.

The aromatic molecules and scents have attributes that can be analogs to human pheromones as well, just by chemical structure, not always by noticeable scent. Humans can react to things they can't "SMELL" but that they smell in the covert way that pheromones work.