# How long does it take for a stranger to react? **URL:** \ **Category:** Women's Pheromone Advice & Field Reports\ **Created:** [February 26, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-stranger-to-react/26507 "2009-02-26T17:36:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AshesBlue](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/ashesblue/32/895_2.png) [@AshesBlue](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/AshesBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-stranger-to-react/26507/1 "2009-02-26T17:36:56Z")
On average how long can it take for a stranger to react to one’s phero’s? I read in one post it take’s ten minutes, but then I read where people get second looks just by walking by someone, or similar hits or even much more intimate hits, just w/in moments (seconds), or even nearly immediately of being in the presents of someone. Where did the ten minute time frame come from? So do some phero’s affect others differently than others? Just a noob trying to figure stuff out. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Lor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/lor/32/759_2.png) [@Lor](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Lor)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-stranger-to-react/26507/2 "2009-02-26T17:42:06Z")
IMO _most_ phero signitures take _atleas_t 5 full minutes. thats not to negate anyone elses experience with instant reactions, as i have had situations where i have walked past someone and i think although they are sniffing it instantly, the message doesnt reach the brain for atleast a few moments. 10 minutes sounds about right on average, but diffusion rates vary, strength of [pheromones](https://pheromonelabs.com/) vary, type of pheromone varies, ect ect. i dont think you can dismiss anything out of the ordinary where these mixes are concerned, i think we are still figuring alot of this out as we go ! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AshesBlue](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/ashesblue/32/895_2.png) [@AshesBlue](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/AshesBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-stranger-to-react/26507/3 "2009-02-26T18:12:31Z")
Lor, thanks for your quick response, as usual! Ok so Im not totally crazy, I mean yeah just as in anything, there are exceptions. I am not trying to take credit away from pheromones but _sometimes_ I wonder if that instant reaction is due to a combo of things and not neccesairly the pheromones. Logically, it seems odd that one could get an instant reaction to me, but that’s my logic ha! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Lor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/lor/32/759_2.png) [@Lor](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Lor)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-stranger-to-react/26507/4 "2009-02-26T18:35:06Z")
i have to agree with you there,Ashes. but then again, when i began this i really wasnt expecting the strong reaction i sometimes get. that part was a nice surprise. ---
**Author:** ![Xiphoid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/xiphoid/32/1852_2.png) [@Xiphoid](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Xiphoid)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-stranger-to-react/26507/5 "2009-02-26T19:09:16Z")
> [@Lor](#): > > i have to agree with you there,Ashes. > > but then again, > when i began this i really wasnt expecting the strong reaction i sometimes get. > that part was a nice surprise. Yeah, I agree…on average it’s at least 2-3mins with someone before anything is noticable 🙂 I’ve had the occational “instant” reaction, but they have all been pretty much straight after application, in “confined spaces” like elevators/cars or someone exposed directly to a gust of phero’s of some sort… ---
**Author:** ![Takhisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Takhisis](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Takhisis)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-stranger-to-react/26507/6 "2009-02-26T22:15:33Z")
It takes about 3 to 10 minutes, to longer. I’ve noticed in my experience that the better the person know you, the longer it seems to take for them to integrate the new phero information. I think it takes no more than a heartbeat or two for our sensors to pick it up and then the time between that and when you get a reaction is the phero working its way through receptors, brain processing and social filters. ---
**Author:** ![AshesBlue](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/ashesblue/32/895_2.png) [@AshesBlue](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/AshesBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-stranger-to-react/26507/7 "2009-02-26T22:23:13Z")
> [@Takhisis](#): > > It takes about 3 to 10 minutes, to longer. I’ve noticed in my experience that the better the person know you, the longer it seems to take for them to integrate the new phero information. > > I think it takes no more than a heartbeat or two for our sensors to pick it up and then the time between that and when you get a reaction is the phero working its way through receptors, brain processing and social filters. That’s why I asked about strangers, since what Ive read and been told it takes a lot longer for people who see you on a regular basis, especially family/SO’s to react to the phero’s. Which is sad for me since my main reason to wear phero’s is to get a reaction from family/SO and myself. Im not around strangers on a daily basis even, but was still curious. ---
**Author:** ![CookieGirl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/cookiegirl/32/1379_2.png) [@CookieGirl](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/CookieGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-stranger-to-react/26507/8 "2009-02-26T23:03:37Z")
> [@Takhisis](#): > > I’ve noticed in my experience that the better the person know you, the longer it seems to take for them to integrate the new phero information.. I’ve had similar results too, ashes. I notice it’s rather difficult to get someone, like in my family, to notice instantaneously. Usually when it comes to getting my boyfriend to notice me, I stay in very close proximity to him for about 10 minutes and then suddenly ! a very strong reaction. So now I know to stick around him if I wanna see hits. 😛 What phero’s have you tried around him, with no notice, ashes ? ---
**Author:** ![ariadne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/ariadne/32/770_2.png) [@ariadne](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/ariadne)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-stranger-to-react/26507/9 "2009-02-27T00:18:46Z")
> [@AshesBlue](#): > > On average how long can it take for a stranger to react to one’s phero’s? > I read in one post it take’s ten minutes I don’t know if you’re referencing my Instant Infatuation post where I mentioned that the reactions I’ve seen come after ten minutes or not. There may have been other posts where ladies have mentioned a ten minute figure, I don’t know. _I personally_ used ten minutes, not because I sat with a stopwatch to verify it, but because the reactions to me seemed to come at a later time than five minutes, but not so late that I was consciously scratching my head wondering when the hits would roll in. So ten minutes to me seemed like a good estimate to start with. I don’t think I’ve ever read where someone outright said “pheromones take exactly ten minutes, no more no less, to work”. That would be silly, and unless they had some sort of scientific or medical rationale for that, I would disregard it. There are way too many factors involved in each situation to make such an absolute statement.