Aloha,
I have a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and I conducted some pheromone research while I was graduate school. I’m teaching workshops in the Neuropsychology of Sexuality and would like to resume research with pheromones. Looking forward to this forum.
Mark
Hello and welcome!
Its great to have a scientist onboard. If you let us know more about yourself, you can earn a $25 gift card to try out some of these products for free. Check out the thread at the top of this section.
Looking forward to reading your posts!
Aloha right back at ya! Welcome to the mone forum. You’ll have some interesting reads around the discussions on the science of mones. As well as some fun empirical journals!
Here is what the admins of the site look for in order to qualify for the GC and basically, test them out for free.
https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-do-i-qualify-for-a-25-gift-certificate/19934
From your comments, I’d recommend you take a look at this thread which shed light to the way AD does mones, with application on your skin and in precise mu measurements.
Thanks for joining our little forum and posting! 
Aloha,
Since my I got a message saying my intro was too short, I’ll send a longer one. I don’t honestly recall the sequence of events that led to my interest in pheromones. Being a healthy, polyamorous, 20-something male dating many women in grad school, and being a neuroscientist, it was bound to happen. I believe I tried one product and thought that it smelled as repulsive as most cologne and wouldn’t even entertain the idea of wearing it. Then I came across another product that I liked and began using it. I liked how I felt when I wore it, and it seemed to me that when I wore it I had better luck with women. Whether this better luck was due to (1) placebo effect or (2) a true pheromone-limbic effect in the women or (3) a pheromone-limbic effect in me that resulted in me appearing more approachable…I have no idea. And it’s entirely possible no effect was occurring since personal tests were not rigorous, though I tend to think otherwise given the actual research I conducted. I conducted a pilot study in a neuroanatomy course that I TA’d. I gave the students a black and white photo of a male and of a female and asked the students to rate the attractiveness of the two people. Photos were randomly assigned application of a pheromone product or a control scent (amber) and distributed to the class. I truly did not expect to have a significant effect due to the small number of students and their near proximity to one another (a better test would involve a single person in a room at the very least). Nevertheless, I got a significant effect of greater attractiveness ratings for those photos laced with pheromones. I analyzed the data in various ways to look at gender issues, but since this was over a dozen years ago I honestly don’t recall the specifics of those tests. The most significant effect (p<.01), however, was in response to the question “how relaxed to do you feel right now”. Pheromone-exposed subjects rated were far more relaxed, even with their non-exposed neighbor sitting next to them. Rather impressive.
Since that time I have taught many courses in neuropsychology and have discussed our “6th sense”. I’ve taught students about pheromone preferences as they relate to genetics and how this is affected by the birth control pill. I’ve discussed the research on sexual orientation that suggests that both gender and orientation yield different pheromone profile excretions and have different pheromone preferences. I’ve discussed pretty much any study I’ve seen, yet I feel we don’t know a drop in the bucket. I wonder how many pheromones we have and if these preferences relate to which TYPE of pheromones are emitted or their relative PROPORTIONS. Do our diversity in preferences relate to major or minor chemical profile differences? How spatially specific does this system work–how can we distinguish pheromone profiles across a room full of people, or even across a table of 4? How much of the effect of wearing a product is self-stimulated vs other-stimulated? Do we emit different pheromone profiles if we think differently (dominant vs submissive fantasies for example) or feel differently or if we are living with straight vs gay people? How do our profiles change with age? Are pheromones the basis for pleasure in kissing, and if so, is it from a volatile or liquid exchange? When we say we like how someone smells, is this a result of conditioning the “visible” and ineffective scent to the “invisible/pheromonal” effective scent such that the visible scent becomes an effective stimulus (aka pavlov), or are we being fooled every time about the scent we actually like?
There are lots of lots of questions of course. I’m ready to study them. I live in Hawaii now, and I’m doing a workshop on the Neuropsychology of Sexuality in less than two weeks. I would like to get some pheromone products and secretly administer them to half of the group, similar to the pilot study…in a way that is both scientific and fun. So, I am open to suggestions on which product(s) to use and how. Clearly I need to order this soon.
Note that I’ve never participated in an online forum before, and it’s not clear to me how to best use it. Kinda overwhelming, honestly.
Wow. This sounds like a lot of fun!
Assuming that all of the scents need to be the same, I would stick to the instant line (minus Ammo, which has doesn’t have a neroli based fragrance).
What type of response are you interested in studying with the group? Some of the pheromones are sexual by nature but can be uncomfortable in situations where sexual pheromones are not appropriate. For example, a high -none application at work or perhaps in this group would make some feel uncomfortable while it would be perfectly appropriate leading up to a sexual encounter.
Of course, such an application may in fact be what you are looking for…
What do you mean by ‘uncomfortable’? do you mean
#1 pheromone –> uncomfortable feeling
or do you mean
#2 pheromone –> sexual feeling –>social assessment of inappropriateness –> uncomfortable feeling?
I’m fine with #2.
I’m not convinced that any pheromone will make one feel sexual. I think feeling relaxed and available socially may be sufficient to allow a normal sex drive to express itself, so if it creates a relaxation response, great! I’ve not decided what I’m going for–I wanted to hear what effects were known already. I’d rather go for something that impresses the attendees about the influence of pheromones, rather than do something that has no effect. Start with something simple and sexual.
Yes, number two is what I was going for, but the social assessment is not necessarily conscious at least to the best of my knowledge. There are others much more knowledgeable than me on this forum. Not everybody reads the introductions forum, so I encourage you to post in one of the main forums (men or women or both) and you’ll get some pretty fantastic advice concerning what pheromone(s) would be useful in your experiments.
In addition to this, I suggest that you use the search feature found on the top right if you want additional reading on a specific product besides asking around.
Just to let you know, not all pheromones are sexual. As you stated, “feeling relaxed and socially available may be sufficient to allow normal sex drive to express itself.” For example, Instant Shine generally makes people feel good and improves their mood, Instant Openness makes people chattier and Instant Honesty creates the feeling of a deep trusting bond. These can all be useful in a sexual/romantic setting and are in fact used that way alone or in conjunction with other products, but they aren’t just a sexual product. It is a combination of the product and how the wearer interacts with others.
I’m interested in the results of whatever test you come up with. What sort of control questions are you planning on using?
There are a number of people with formal (and informal) scientific backgrounds on these boards, so feel free to explore and ask questions.
Welcome to pherotalk Neuro!
I can’t wait to read the interesting and detailed reports you going to be writing on the forum about your findings.
I hope the products we have in stock bring more than interest to you and help you in your social , love or work life in some way.
Your gc was issued! 
I received my first order today of androtics products, and I have to say that I really can’t imagine them having any prosocial or prosexual effect given that the scent itself is so unappealing. I was going to do an experiment with them in a sexuality workshop, but that plan is definitely not gonna happen. I really don’t understand why ya don’t just make products that have NO scent. that would be far better.