Sigma Pseudo™ Distressed Body Scent P-1310

Pheromone Science Pheromone Theory & Molecules
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PoliceK9 Equipment - Scent Detection

"Distressed body scent Formulation qty - 4
4 glass containers, 1 ML each

P-1310 $49.95 ON BACKORDER FROM THE MFG"**

Basically this is a site that sells a number of products for training dogs to locate trapped persons, narcotics and even decaying human bodies :open_mouth: . The one that interests me is the ‘Sigma Pseudo Distressed Body Scent’, created to smell like a person who’s in a state of panic.

Now why would this interest me? Well there has been talk on the forum about stressful days resulting in people having better pheromone signatures:

And also there was a thread about a study in which women preferred the odors of men who had the higher cortisol levels:

Well if these people have created scent to train dogs to find people in a distressed state, and dogs’ sense of smell being much better than humans, then could this product perhaps do something extremely useful pheromonally?

By the way here is an article by Jessica Snyder Sachs from the March 1996 edition of Discover Magazine about this valuable work: “The fake smell of death - synthetic corpse smell and other scents help train search dogs”
The Fake Smell of Death - - science news articles online technology magazine articles The Fake Smell of Death

Visionary

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I have smelled dead people and I don’t know if that would be a popular cologne. I can see the posts now - Do you prefer the “Floating in the East River for three weeks” or the “Sitting in the Hot Summer Sun for two Weeks” Cologne? - lol

In all seriousness - the first part - the idea of high cortisol levels meaning you are an Alpha male with a real job - and maybe real pay - is an interesting concept.

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Interesting stuff… I’ll check it out!

Matt

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Yes I titled the thread to take the focus away from corpse scents. I am only talking about highly stressed live human body scent here and definitely not smelling like a corpse!

Aside from the above-mentioned site which appears to be down at the moment (http://www.elitek9.com/Scent_Detection/index.htm (http://www.elitek9.com/Scent_Detection/index.htm)), the ‘P1310 Sigma Pseudo™ Distressed Body Scent , Trauma and Fear Formulation’ is also sold from here: http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/search/ProductDetail/SIGMA/P1310?CHEMBUYERSGUIDE (http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/search/ProductDetail/SIGMA/P1310?CHEMBUYERSGUIDE)

From the above mentioned article, ‘The Fake Smell of Death’ by Jessica Snyder Sachs:
http://discovermagazine.com/1996/mar/thefakesmellofde714 (http://discovermagazine.com/1996/mar/thefakesmellofde714)
“…Another tester was Caroline Hebard, a New Jersey mother of four who has been honored internationally for her canine search-and-rescue work. Yes, this works, she told Sigma. Now give me something for live folk.

But not just ordinary live folk. Over the years, as Hebard and her dogs sifted through the rubble of earthquakes and explosions, she saw that she needed to train her dogs to tell her if they were smelling buried trauma victims or the workers around them. There’s a certain scent, kind of sour and sweaty, around someone in shock, she says. Anybody who’s familiar with the smell in an ambulance knows what I mean. To fill the request, Juehne hit the journals again. There he found detailed analyses of compounds our bodies secrete onto the surface of our skin. I needed to find a universal human scent, something nondiscriminatory with respect to a person’s diet, sex, or age–from that baby-fresh smell of a newborn’s head to the musty odor of Grandpa in the nursing home.

After another game of chemical mix and match, Juehne sent Pseudo Distress for field-testing. It reportedly sailed through all trials, with claims that dogs trained on the stuff were proving their worth in actual rescue situations. And not only did Pseudo Distress help dogs track people in shock: handlers report that it’s good for finding frightened children in the wilderness and adrenaline-charged escapees in prison air ducts…”

I think given the two threads on the forum linked to below, this product is definitely worth a try:
Simply Amazing -- It's Like Clockwork (Simply Amazing -- It's Like Clockwork)
https://pheromonetalk.com/t/why-did-women-prefer-the-odors-of-men-who-had-high-cortisol-level/873

Visionary

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Fear
"Can animals really smell fear?
Sharon Lynn

…For example, in humans, the autonomic nervous system is responsible for enacting a stress response. This response is thought to function in preparing the body for immediate protective action. Characteristic physiological changes comprising the fear response in humans include (1) an increased hear rate, (2) an increase in blood supply to the muscles and to the brain, (3) release of glucose into the bloodstream, (4) dilation of the pupils, (5) increased breathing rate, and (6) an increase in sweat gland activity (Janis et al., 1983). In particular, the increase in sweat gland activity which accompanies a stress response in humans may contribute to an olfactory �fear� signal.

The human body has two types of sweat glands. The first is the eccrine, or sudoriferous, gland, which is a coiled structure responsible for the regulation of body temperature through evaporation of sweat from the body surface. The second type of sweat gland is called the apocrine gland. Apocrine glands are localized to specific areas of the body with the highest concentrations occurring in the region of the axillary organs (armpits) and the groin area (Stoddart, 1990).
In response to emotional stress and sexual stimulation, apocrine glands release secretions through hair follicles. The secretions contain cellular material that is broken down by bacteria, and thus body odor is produced (Memmler et al., 1992). The human stress response may therefore result in the production or intensification of one�s natural body odor which is detectable to a nearby animal. Thompson (1988) suggests that human thermoregulatory responses to stress or fear may provide a valid measure of the intensity of emotion, but do not provide much specific information about which emotion an individual is experiencing. Thus, if a person becomes fearful in the presence of an animal, that animal may be able to detect a new odor, and may therefore be alerted to the person�s presence. it is, however, unlikely that such an olfactory cue provides the animal with enough information to detect that the person is fearful. Additionally, it is unlikely that such an olfactory cue acts alone to incite aggression in the animal…

Many police departments and search-and rescue squads use trained dogs to track both suspects and victims through olfactory cues. Usually, the dog is presented with an item on which the object of a search�s odor may be detected, and the dog then follows a scent trail which will presumably lead to the person. The role of a possible �fear scent� in directing a trained dog to a suspect is not well documented. One contributor to the K-9 Academy for Law Enforcement Trainer�s Resource Centers Web page suggests that, �If you want to train your canine to pick out all the people who are afraid, you can do that . . . a guilty persons odor is coming out like a smoke bomb and smells of �fear�.� However, evidence which supports this claim remains anecdotal1,2, as systematic study in this area is difficult. Nonetheless, Sigma Pseudochemicals does offer vials of human �fear scent� to those purchasers who are interested.
In the strictest sense, it is doubtful that animals can smell fear. Some animals have been documented to release a scent in response to stress. Such a �fear scent� may play some role in alerting a potential attacker. However, it is more likely that an animal will become aggressive towards a fearful individual as a result of a combination of multiple sensory and behavioral cues. While odor may play a significant role in attack behaviors among animals, olfactory cues probably do not function alone to incite aggression in mammals…"

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Fear

"Notes
1 Morris R. Atwell related a personal training experience:

My dogs are trained for cadaver search using both pseudo corpse and the real thing. There was a pseudo scent called �fear and trauma� introduced to them at a training session. The very first alert on this scent was very interesting to me. Each dog reacted slightly different but both alerts were different for a normal cadaver find.
You could tell when the dog came into the scent cone. One dog stopped smelled the wind, and took a more timid �sneak up� approach on where this scent material was buried. He was very tentative in his approach and scratching at the area. He approached the area with body lower to the ground and did a very tentative initial investigation. I guess once he discovered nothing was going to jump out and attack - he did finally give a few barks.
The second dog reacted differently. When she came into the scent cone - she immediately turned toward the scent. Body seemed to swell up and she became more stiff legged on her approach. Her approach was more straight to the scent. When she got to the area of the buried scent, she looked all around, sniffed the air, then went into her sniffing, barking alert. This only happened the first time they were exposed to the �fear and trauma� scent material. Now they alert to it just like they do for all cadaver work."

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Wow! You may have your wish.

Some of the new putatives coming out, I think around 2 of them, smell sour and sweaty. One is sort of like sour milk. It’s kind of disturbing, actually. We were thinking of keeping them provisioning them for the most highly experienced users first.

What you write about this is really interesting. I guess we’ll see if these inspire aid and comfort. They may even run the risk of inspiring predator type behavior. That’s the other side of the distress coin, the social food chain.

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??? lol did you just make this up or is this an actual term

I was trained to smell the scent of fear and panic while in the armed forces, I was also trained to smell a whole army of men if they were hidden near by or during combat in total darkness, the latter helping avoid bieng ambushed.

Women have a very distinct scent, and one of the reasons why women soldiers tend not to fight on the front line is because thier scent can easily be picked up by men.

The scent of fear is a musky sour odor not unlike androstenone.

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Very interesting.

I guess some people need to try the disturbing ones straight. Might be a bit unnerving. If they really have a “I’m in shock” signal, it would be interesting to combine with a ultra healthy signal like a314 and see how the mixed signals are interpreted.

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Cool I am looking forward to these new putatives! The one that smells like sour milk is kind of disturbing :open_mouth: - is it just that it smells funky or it makes you feel creeped out I wonder? Who really knows what kind of behavior these will inspire… are they likely to be the same molecules as in the ‘Sigma Pseudo™ Distressed Body Scent P-1310’ product (which is for training search-and-rescue dogs)?

-Visionary