August, 1999

Hello Again Readers,

It’s been hot and humid here in Japan, and we’re finally getting some refreshing rain. My wife and kids are at grandma’s house today, and I’m enjoying a cup of gourmet Japanese green tea in front of the computer. Except for the sound of our turtle, Kame Kun splashing around in his tank it’s VERY quiet around here. Hope you’re all enjoying your Sunday as much as I am.

FREE pheromones!
For those of you just joining us, welcome and yes, I REALLY give away a free bottle of pheromones every issue. There are not that many people entering either, so it is not that hard to win. I’d say your odds are about one in twenty or better. Just enough folks to keep me happy with the results of the surveys. See this week’s contest/survey below.

Don’t forget to smile at someone today,
Bruce Boyd
editor
Sendai, Japan
news@love-scent.com
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Sources:
I am signed up with two services that notify me of any new appearance of pheromone research or other news anywhere on either the web. I also periodically run searches on the medical research web-sites to see if any new material pops up, and of course I get occasional hot tips from you, my “alert readers”. I have also been known to just make stuff up, as you will see, so beware.

Sometimes the “news” will be not so new. If it doesn’t appear on the PRI site (http://www.love-scent.com/research) or the pheromone E-zine archives (http://www.love-scent.com/zine), and I find it interesting, than it’s news to me and I’ll review it, so don’t be afraid to send in an old article you come across. If it hasn’t found it’s way into the internet or a research journal, I probably haven’t read it and would be very happy for a copy, which I would then of course highlight in the “News” (with your name if you like).

I’m also interested in printing personal experiences with pheromones, so if you have something to enter in that area please send it in. I can leave your name off or print it as you like.

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This Issue’s pheromone “News”:

*July’s Survey/Contest Results
*Celery; the new pheromone???
-news bulletin (thanks James)
*Research: Natural pheromone levels and sexual Stimuli
-review
*Natural pheromones
-editorial
*This month’s “Free pheromones” Contest/Survey
*pheromones in the Cinema
-weekly feature
*User Corner; Alert Reader pheromone Story
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The July issue’s Survey Results

[Congratulations! This month’s winner is James Seetoo from New York City. He picked Beaches pheromone cologne for his free bottle o’ pheromones]

Here are the questions and the answers:
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1. Have you ever worn a pheromone cologne?
75%: “Yes” 25%: “No”

2. Do you ever use non-pheromone fragrances with the intention of making yourself more attractive to the opposite sex?
100%: “Yes”

3. What products have you tested and are you happy with the results?
Andros, Realm, Patchouli, White Shoulders, Musk, Beaches

4. In general do you feel that supplemental pheromones have any effect?
60%: “Yes” 30%: “Don’t know” 10%: “No” or “I don’t think so”

5. In general do you feel that colognes have any romantic effect on those around you?
80%: “Yes” 10%: “No” 10%: “Don’t know”

***Please write a few sentences on your experiences with supplemental pheromones and/or other colognes as aphrodisiacs/attractants……
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“I Believe that supplemental pheromones have an affect, however, I don’t believe that either Andros or Realm was effective. I hope that your research will come up with a more effective product.”

“When I wear the musk oil I find that my boy friend is more passionate.”

“I have had no experiences with pheromones, but I know my favorite perfume is White Shoulders, a very distinctive scent. If you like it, you remember it, and some men do like that scent.”

“I have several ex-girlfriends suddenly wanting to have renewed ‘relationships’ with me. I had one case when an ex-girlfriend who had just seen me by coincidence call and leave a message on my phone before I even got home, asking me if I would like to see her that evening. I had not seen or talked to this girl in a couple of months prior to that encounter. I have noticed that women are much more susceptible to the effect of pheromones when they are ovulating and just before their menstrual cycle.”

“Andros: It seemed to have gotten the attention of three girls who’d normally ignore me at the musical where we were playing. I didn’t particularly like the smell of Andros, so i didn’t wear it much.”

“I had seen the pheromone colognes in different places and started a time or two to try them, but I never did, until I found your site and I took the plunge and ordered the ‘Beaches’ cologne and the hair gel. I Love the fragrance and the gel does great with my hair. My husband has seemed to be more attentive when I am wearing it. Although, I have not told him about it yet. Kinda wanted to get his reaction, before I actually told him.”

“I have actually been places and had men ask me what fragrance I was wearing so that they could get some for their wives/girlfriends, so this proves to me that men like a woman who smells nice. I have gotten dressed in a hurry for work and left home without putting any fragrance on and I really, honestly felt not completely dressed without it.”

“I usually wear some kind of vanilla type perfume, and it seems to make me get a lot more comments about how good I smell and they always want to know what I am wearing compared to what I used to wear.”

“I am an EMT and sometimes our patients can be ugly to us. With this [pheromones] on a lot of them are really nice. Since the company is new and when we go to the ER’s the staff would be stuffy towards us, but now……. they are smiles and talkative. My co-workers did not believe me so they tried it and lo and behold they came back with their own stories. It is funny to hear us, sitting around and telling about our adventures with the people around us.”

“Well, I think more girls are noticing me. I just want to go a little farther than that. I guess I tried pheromones because I wanted girls to go up to me rather than I to them.”

“Well lets see, first off, I am a friendly type of outgoing person, the reason I am trying pheromones is because I have tried finding a nice girl for most of my life. Yet living in a wheelchair, the first impressions are very important, and so far, every gal I’ve met does not have love on her mind. After I started using pheromones, the people I did meet were more responsive and did not stand as far away as in the past. Little kids were more likely to ask those little innocent questions most kids ask, and the older generation who are blind to the physical differences do to the wisdom of their age, are far more willing to communicate on a higher level concerning emotions and friendship.”

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[The following news flash was brought to my attention by alert reader James C. Thanks!]

Celery; the new pheromone???

In a recent edition of Details magazine a story appeared which quotes a famous Swedish cook and author as reporting: “Celery is suspected to be somewhat sexually arousing.” and goes on to speculate that the the cause is that: “Celery contains androsterone, a powerful hormone that researchers believe is released through sweat and which attracts females.”

I don’t want to start a stampede to the vegetable stands, but androsterone is in fact a metabolite (broken down result) of testosterone and therefore possibly a link in the chain of the break down of the androgen hormones into the well known sexually attractive andro pheromones, androstenone and androstenol. So, it is entirely possible that eating a lot of raw celery could increase your natural production of these pheromones. Can any biochemists in the audience help me out here?

So, let’s all eat a lot of celery this month and see what happens! Let me know if you notice anything unusual. I don’t think you can get your money back on the celery though, if you don’t get results.

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Research: Natural pheromone levels and sexual Stimuli
-Bruce Boyd

Well, in case you don’t have any celery on hand you might want to read the following article. It describes yet another natural (at least I think it’s natural) way to increase you pheromone levels. The scientific basis for the theory comes from a short report drawn from a speech given by the eminent Austrian pheromone researcher, Astrid Jutte.

The two most popular pheromones that have lately made their way into the news and into the fragrance industry as well are called, androstenone and androstenol. As with all other pheromones they are produced by hormones excreted by the body through the skin where they react with bacteria. These pheromones are quite volatile and move through the air where they are picked up by a specialized sensing apparatus (VNO) in the noses of those nearby, where they transmit vital information about us to those individuals. Since it is our own hormones that drive the production of pheromones, it stands to reason that higher levels of the androgen hormones (ones that cause the sex drive) will cause us to naturally produce higher levels of the pheromones that are popularly made in factories today with the very goal of attracting others for this purpose. Some interesting research performed by Dr. Jutte, shows us how we can do just that.

What is it chemically that makes us want to have sex? Surprisingly enough for both men and women it is the same hormone, testosterone! And, how can we establish if a man or women is interested in sexual activity. (for scientific purposes of course).

Three ways:
1. We can ask the subject: “ahem….um…excuses me…but..um….are you horney?”
2. We can check for blood flow to the genital area.
3. We can check testosterone levels.

All of these work but the first is apparently the least reliable especially with women according to the Jutte study. And how do we make people horney (for scientific purposes of course): porno movies! Yes, an equal number of male and female subjects in the Jutte study were shown a 15 minute pornographic video while they were alone, and their testosterone levels were checked via a saliva test at intervals before and after the “exposure”.

What were the results? Who gets hornier from watching sex scenes alone in a room., men or women? You women know the truth, while all the male readers have been believing the big lie for all these years. Scientific results show that………both men and women respond equally!!!! There was a little fudging on the horniness self-report forms by females apparently, but the medical tests showed equality between the sexes! Finally! Oh, by the way, there was one more difference besides the accuracy of the self-report forms, and that was the length of time that the video-induced testosterone “high” lasted. Again no surprise to women and that is that after the stimulating video has been turned off, the average male testosterone level was back to baseline in 15 minutes, ready to roll over and start snoring, while the lonely female testosterone level took much longer to calm down. Ha! I knew there had to be a medical explanation for that.

So, there you are; the facts are in. If you want to raise your pheromone level naturally, (which won’t crash out on you like your fickle testosterone level guys), just get yourself good and horney for at least 15 minutes.

But again, just in case, don’t forget to smile!
Bruce Boyd
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Natural pheromones
-editorial

In line with this month’s research and media stories, I would like to editorialize about making use of our own naturally produced pheromones as opposed to relying entirely on synthetic store-bought pheromones. Of course, I’m a strong believer in the usefulness of supplemental pheromones, as you know, but I also believe that it is wise to think about conservation of the attractive pheromones that we already have for a number of reasons.

One reason is that science so far has isolated very few of the undoubted thousands of pheromones that make up each of our personal “pheromone signatures”, a term coined by the great pheromone scientist, James Kohl (pheromones.com). Each and every one of us is surrounded in a veritable pheromone aura of personal smells that are produced by the various hormones and bacteria circulating in our bodies and expressed onto our skin through the pores. This pheromone blueprint tells others who we are, and I don’t think it is necessarily in our best interests to erase all that and start from scratch with chemical antibacterial soaps and deodorants.

Another good reason to “go natural” is that our natural personal pheromone “spray” does not work alone to attract others. It works in concert with other important parts of who we are, and those areas may or may not be speaking to others to our greatest advantage. But the good news is that when we work on those other “languages” the scent we are broadcasting improves with it. I will give you a couple of examples, one a bit wacky and one that I think you will agree with me on.

The first magnetism or “language” I want to mention is strangely enough one of our least exact “languages” and that is our spoken language itself. As relatively ineffective as it is, though, I will tell you a story from my own life, that demonstrates its attractive powers. I have lived most of my life away from my native USA, and fortunately I have always been a whiz with foreign languages. Before I would even set foot on a new country’s soil, I always prepared with months of intense language study, which was always a labor of love for me. As soon as the plane touched down I would be blabbering away as best I could in my new language. It has always been a passion of mine. At that time, I never really thought about it as a sexual attractant, but one day an American woman I ran into somewhere in a foreign country said to me: “There is nothing sexier than a man who can speak several foreign languages.” Weird? Maybe. By the way, ever see the movie “A Fish Named Wanda?”

Before I get off on that tangent any further, though, I want to head off in a slightly different one , and that is “body language.” Along with our pheromone language and our spoken language, what are we saying with our bodies? Complicated books have been written on this subject, but for the purpose of this short article, I would like to concentrate on the most crass level. What are we saying to others in terms of health, strength, flexibility, and sensuality? Aren’t these attractive features? For you unattached readers out there, what if I told you that I wanted to introduce you to a a very nice single friend of mine. This person is about your age, and he/she does a lot of sports and as a result is very healthy and has a very strong and flexible body? Does that stir up any interest? Now, I’m going to go a bit further out on to the limb and tell you what I think the third great famous lie is, (after “the check is in the mail” lie) This is it: “I don’t think men with muscular physiques are attractive.” Men rarely bother trying to lie about physical attraction, but it does happen! I always believed this story until two years ago when I started lifting weights myself. Now in my forties, I am 10 kilos (22 pounds) heavier and in better shape physically than I ever have been in my life, and know the truth. My membership at the gym is the only money I regularly spend on myself that my wife has 100% endorsed. Coming back finally full circle to the beginning of this article, though, working out is not just about having a “nice body” it is about being youthful and producing youth associated hormones/pheromones. They all work together. Try it, you’ll like it.

All the best, and don’t forget to smile!
Bruce

Now for the survey!!! He he he.
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July’s “free pheromones” Contest

Win a FREE bottle of pheromones! Send in a survey!
Winners are drawn at random out of each month’s completed surveys.

This may be a controversial questionnaire, but I am hoping to get a large enough response to come up with some valid statistics, which might be valuable to anyone interested in making him or herself more attractive to the opposite sex, so please help me out here; especially you ladies. If you have been reading for a while, you know that I never print names with the results of these surveys, so don’t be afraid to participate. As always I will pick one survey participant at random and send them a FREE bottle of pheromones!

Another point: I am not advocating one way or another whether one “should” or “shouldn’t” be attracted in the following way. I just want to collect some info that could be helpful to folks. Please jump in if you have a moment to fill this out.

Thanks

Here is the survey:
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1. Do you find a generally healthy, strong and/or flexible body to be an attractive feature on a person?

2. Do you find athletic physiques attractive on others (men/women)?

3. Can you say a few words about what you find attractive physically in a man or woman. Ideally, things we can work on. (eg: “tall” and “large breasts” don’t really help much, whereas “energetic”, “long hair”, and “athletic build” etc. do help)

4. For demographic purposes please include you age and sex.

Send completed surveys to:
news@love-scent.com
If you just hit “return” on this e-mail with your reply, I will read it but it may not get in with the other entries and you may not get included in the drawing.
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pheromones in the Cinema

This month’s pheromone scene is a long jump from our usual romantic smells story, but fascinating none the less in my mind. The movie is “Leon”, the moving story of the love motivated “war” between a solo mafia hit-man and a corrupt police detective/drug lord. Our evil cop villain has frightening powers of perception that border on the supernatural, and in one unforgettable scene “investigates” a reported short changing on the part of one of his drug dealers using pheromones! Entirely on the basis of smelling the suspect, the detective is able to determine that the dealer has been lying. Watch the movie, and you will be convinced that he really has that power! I don’t usually recommend such disturbing movies, but it contains some amazing scenes. If you can deal with the violence, check it out.

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User Corner

[After applying a popular pheromone product:]
“So one of my stops is Best Buy to replace a SONY headset I use when riding my bike. I’m standing at the display of headsets, holding a $30 generic and a $60 SONY, trying to compare features. Out of nowhere a beautiful, exotic, Spanish woman, about mid-30s puts her hand on the SONY in my hand and says, ‘I have this one and it’s great.’ I say to her, ‘Is it worth paying double the price?’

“She stares directly into my eyes (very aggressive for a woman) and says: ‘You deserve the best.’ Bingo!

“Random? Or pheromones?

“I’d have to say after about two years of this that there are enough of these little incidents to make a persuasive case for the pheromones. I can’t prove it, but I don’t have to. With results like this, who needs empirical proof?”

Name withheld by request
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Thank you all, and keep those articles and experiences coming! Technical advice also welcome.

Feel free to distribute this newsletter freely if copied in its entirety. Sign up information and back issues are located at:
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Bruce Boyd
Sendai PRI
news@love-scent.com