does pheromone spray really work

[gerry]

just wanting to know if pheromone spray thats meant to attract the other sex really work or is it just a big gimmick?

[darth vader]

naaah - you're better off having a good shower, shave, dress well, don't cover yourself in too much aftershave, and utilise the other girl-magnetising resource, you.

[KARL]

If I remember correctly the information I have come across, both sexes of the human animal excrete pheromone but the female senses it better than the male, who is supposedly practically oblivious to it. Humans do therefore not react to these to anything like the same degree as animals. However, I think I am right in saying there was some marginal effect on females in some scientific studies. Studies have also shown that women recognise the smell of their mate from, for example, their odour of clothes even after washing provided not too much synthetic perfume (such as in fabric softeners and even some wasing powders) is present. This recognition is however not so much connected to pheromones. The marketing of synthetic pheromones as magnets for dating purposes is, I think I am right in saying, not proved as a scientifically viable proposition.

[brooklyn77]

The above answer is pretty much correct. We as humans produce the stuff anyway. The stuff you buy in shops (if not water adverstised as 'attraction spray') is meant to be a strong version of our natural stuff. However as mentioned above it has little true effect on humans and would really only have an added advantage if you fancied the person anyway of vice versa. And even then only a debatable effect. Take the advice of darth vader, have a wash and bung on some aftershave, much better.