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Can you actually smell a person you are attracted to?

Do they give off a scent to you and what does it smell like. do you think it’s pheromones?
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Most Helpful Guys

  • No since pheromones in humans aren’t linked to sexual attraction. There are guys who get turned on by the smell of female flatulence but they are exceptions. While guys rely on all 5 senses to get attracted to a woman, visual stimuli is our strongest because us guys have a primal instinct to spread our seeds.

    Women are different since they don’t have an urge to spread their seeds (obviously) they don’t primarily rely on visual stimuli to feel attraction towards men. So they won’t react as strongly to the sight of a naked man when compared to the reaction a man will have to the sight of a naked woman.

    While women primarily rely on smell, sound and touch to get sexually aroused (wet), It’s usually the smell of a man’s perfume or miscellaneous scent he picks up from his daily activities. In regards to touch, each woman likes to be touched a certain way by her partner, specifically on her erogenous zones. When it comes to sound, they like hear dirty talk from their partner.

  • It may be pheromones but I'm not sure because I've seen some things on the internet that question whether those work in humans the way they do in other animals. But then on the other hand I've seen listed as one of the reasons humans have pubic hair is to trap pheromones for sexual attraction.

Most Helpful Girls

  • I can tell everyone's smell apart regardless of weather I'm attracted to them. The people I'm attracted to, I do love their smell. We are attracted to the smell of people whose genes are different to our own. Several tests have proven this theory. As for pheromones, I just think they are more related to signalling arousal and attracting mates. Everyone has pheromones to signal arousal , it doesn't mean I'll find them attractive

  • It's more for couples that date for ages. your body comes to adore the smell and it's not just the invisible smell it's them.

    You won't know it till your deeply in love and they leave for a bit. You will miss them and want any part of them. Your smelling them helps

    • Yeah I understand that. But how about someone you recently started to have a crush on

    • No the body takes time for it. That is more the crushing so what ever they like or you think they like you do. Think puppy love effect

    • No I'm not saying they can't smell nice and you like it. Some people scent we like more then others. But it's not attraction

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What Girls & Guys Said

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  • There was one guy at my school that I could tell every time he'd been working out. I felt super creepy but holy crap he smelled amazing when he would work out. Like instantly, insanely horny when I'd smell him.
    Sadly he was gay. 😭

  • Smell is so important and you can fancy someone so much until you smell them! When you love someone you will love their natural smell

  • Yes it's more thst thst it's an energy that flows through and around you it's clean fresh different smells of flowers and water kinda of each person has a different smell

  • Yess definitely. Especially for men they go crazy over how a women smells

    • Can't disagree with that at ALL!

    • @Guardian45 but why

    • @Guardian45 my hubby is constantly telling me how good I smell. Sometimes it gets creepy and he smells me when I'm sleeping

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  • I can tell everyone's different smell.
    The person I'm attracted to, if I actually smell her scent somewhere she's not my mind goes blank for a second. Her smell is a major reason for me liking her.

  • Nothing that I am immediately aware of. 🧡

  • Define... smell? I've hear that if you find someone's body odor "pleasant" then it means that you're more compatible.

    • Like you can actually smell them

  • I think it's more of a subconscious thing. When I'm out of town or vice versa my wife takes a worn shirt of mine with her to snuggle with because it smells like me.

  • Yes, all humans have a scent due to natrual oils in are skin and pheromons.
    it's like how poision ivy from dc she can mauiplate her pheromons through scent.

  • You could be an empath who knows or just imagining it.

  • Everyone has a scent

  • Yes I can - it's their essence :)

  • Yes that true

  • Oh my god yes! She has this sexy, warming, fruity and floral smell. I honestly get hard hard just thinking about it.

    • Does she smell sweet? That’s what I was told that I smell sweet

    • Yeah, somewhat. Her body has a mildly spicy and sweet smell.

  • Yes he does. It just smells like him. 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • It has not been confirmed in any study that human attraction is due to pheromones. I've looked into this in the past.

    • Ok cool so it’s just a normal smell

  • Yes you can smell not only those to whom you are attracted to, but your family is a good example of those who are ingrained in your olfactory sense memories; and your child/children's will be more entwined and the memory recall more potent/effective and the imagery detailed with more information associated with the smell

  • Ya, if that person is around u can sense by the smell. It because we guve lot of attention to such small details of a person we like

  • Yeah it has to be

  • Yeppp, the body is a machine.
    You can ever live near a factor

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