Dr. Ally/Allie Louks

It kind of makes sense that they would exist because they exist in other primates, like other mammals.

But we have spent decades and decades and a lot of scientific resources trying to work out whether pheromones exist in humans and whether we can perceive them.

And nobody has come up with any hard and fast evidence that is replicable.

Yeah, it's still very much up in the air.

Yes.

The sweaty t-shirt experiment.

Yeah.

It's separable from pheromones because pheromones are like a very specific thing.

So one thing about pheromones is that in other animals, they have something called the vomeronasal organ, which allows them to detect pheromones.

So pheromones aren't strictly speaking smells.

But they are kind of chemical compounds that different species will use to communicate messages about their sexual availability or their emotional state, etc.

But they're not technically smells.

They're not perceived through the nose, per se.

They're perceived through this vomeronasal organ, which we don't have at all.

We do when we're in the womb, but then it stops working practically straight away after birth.

Come on.

Yeah.

We've been robbed of our perinatal organs.

All of this is where you get the, no, you know what?

It's too early.