I’ve had good results with Athena 10x. Haven’t tried Pherelure but the website is enough to turn me off that one.
It could be that a hyperdeveloped skeptical attitude is enough to blind one to results. After all, any effects seen are just human behavior. It could have happened anyway. Perhaps highly skeptical people are more comfortable with a world view that attributes any behavioral effects to chance or placebo effect. That’s ok.
It does seem that the research efforts mentioned have been minimal if the Wikipedia quote in post #1 above has been swallowed whole. Plenty of reputable peer-reviewed and published articles have been quoted in this forum.
Although I’m not going to spoon-feed research to anyone, a quick perusal of posts in the forum would find ones like:
I just read an interesting article about different studies on pheromones I thought might interest people.
In a study by the University of Berne, Switzerland, female students were asked to smell unwashed T-shirts of unknown males and to classify them in the smell that pleased them the most. The results showed that the smell women found most pleasing had pheromones different to their own. The curious thing was that women who were on the pill preferred the smell of those which had a similar ph…
with linked references like:
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