Most experience pheromone users don’t view the pheromones as means to an end. Even if you believe this to be true initially, experience with pheromones will teach you otherwise.
Pheromones are only part of your overall attractive impression. They are enhancers of appeal and attraction, however, they themselves are not the source of appeal and attraction. The ironic thing is pheromones tend to work best when you aren’t consciosuly relying on them. The effects work best when you are actively and confidently interacting with the people around you, and the pheromone signal you put out is highly congruent to yourself and your behavior. Its in these moments that the really good effects come about, often unexpectedly.
Overly analyzing the effects, being too conscious of the pheromones you’re wearing, and allowing the act of wearing pheromones affect your mood too much (artificially) can definitely be a pitfall for phero users. There can be a great deal of inconsistency with pheromones, especially when you first start out. If your confidence is vested too heavily in how you percieve the pheromone effects (especially if you don’t know what to look for) it can potentially have a negative effect on your mood.
So yeah I agree with you.
This is a phenomenon that has been discussed here a number of times actually: