Maybe this is just my imagination. I have become recently involved with a woman. I REALLY enjoy DATY and especially with this gal. I can't get rid of the smell for days. I absolutely love it but I can't help but think others can smell it as well. Whenever I work out and begin to sweat, I start to smell like her all over my body. Could this be an actual physiological change my body has made? Or is this just my brain playing fantasy tricks on me?

What do you think Love Goddess?

You lucky dawg, slyderluvs,

That increased sense of smell must have you waggin' that tail the minute you smell your own nose, LOL.

In all seriousness, however, I wouldn't worry. But biochemically speaking, you and the lucky lady are probably very well matched! You see, there is a little thingy up animal noses that's called the VNO - vomeronasal organ. It picks up pheromones like crazy, then connects to the amygdala and the hypothalamus in the brain. Now, research has been conducted on humans, and an overwhelming majority of the subjects showed evidence of having at least one VNO. We haven't figured out completely if it's functional in people the same way that it is in animals, but theories abound. Anecdotally, I can tell you that humans are very sensitive to pheromones. People have reported changes in mood, pain tolerance, etc. from just smelling the clothing of someone that really turns them on. In addition, tests on women have shown that females are consistently attracted to the sweat of men whose DNA is the most dissimilar to theirs; i.e. evolution is doing its trick by pairing up people with the best potential for successfully viable offspring. In addition, the rest of the olfactory system is sensitive to pheromones, so you've got her all over your brain, so to speak.

Now, what does all this mean to you? No, you haven't absorbed her scent by osmosis, but heck, that VNO and the rest of the nasal arrangement is doing its trick and whenever you meet, her lovely aroma sure gets stuck in there. Don't worry, no one else can smell it, only you. And I'd say ENJOY IT, cuz it's gonna go away in due time. It's that darn habituation thingy in the old noggin' again. But until then....aaah....

The scent of a woman,
the Love Goddess

-- Modified on 1/31/2008 8:02:10 AM

Just remember, slyder, don't go kissing any cops on 34th and Vine, or your, um, bottle will get broken for sure.

Seriously, LG, informative and thought-provoking response.

this topic reminds me of the ol' Stink (in a good way) finger back in high school. Those days when a trip to the bleachers was good for some long necking and a little finger play. Then the rest of the day was plagued by obsessive fingers smelling....

ah the good ol' days....

enjoy the smell brother!

I Love the residual smell, for it always seems to be too short a time.  I can remember driving home after, and I was a good 2 hrs away, and loving the aroma for the whole time.
 I do believe LG is onto something, how do we bottle it?  We could make millions!

Women living in close proximity dorms have been
reported to actually synchronize their menstrual cycles. This effect reported by Dr. Hilda Bruce was one of the earliest reported pheromone effects. The monthly cyle of women changes the absolute levels of steorids and peptides in blood associated with female sexuality. The ratios of steroids is  very important driver on the pherometer (furmeter) also changes erotic odors. A new study in incarcerated men compared urinary and anal pheronomes in sex predators versus white collar criminals. Over time the urinary pheromones of predators were cycling in synche with the pheramone count  in anal extracts of the white collar criminals. They blamed it on the irrestible tighty whities of the white collar guys. The editorial board cautioned that  this paper results may be misleading because the two groups were not aintained in properly controlled housing. We must be sure all pheromonal studies are evidenced based double blind controlled simulating real life in controlled housing.
On a more seious note the last time I DATYed a pregnant lady my amaygdala and preoptic nucleas both got  lesions from her pheromones which were on overload due to the level of her placental lactogens. Be very careful about being too nosy during the wrong time of the monthly or pregnant cycle. It has now been reported in human studies that placnetal lactogens can be produced in skin cells which increses nonsexually mediated airborne penetration. Suggest using my new new vomeralnasal condom  the snootybooty to control all this excessive pheromonal load in the air.

She tells the priest that \"Last night, we made love 7 times!\"
The old priest says \"Say 3 Hail Marys and drink the juice of 3 freshly squeezed lemons.\"
\"Will that resolve me of my sins?\"


\"No, but it will wipe the smirk off your face!\"
LOL!

WASH YOUR FACE WITH SOAP AND WATER!

I've often wondered about something I've experienced randomly and I guess I've always been hesitant to ask - or didn't know who to ask.  Slyder's query provides ample opportunity to go there.  Here we go...

Back in the day when I was in junior high and senior high school I remember walking the halls and sometimes picking up a distinct odor.  It had the quality that you would sense from walking into a leather store!??  Not an unpleasant smell, but not the kind of smell I would expect to be "phermonal".  But it was interesting because when I smelled it, my whole perinasal area would tingle.  I often wondered if it was just my picking up a young lass at a particular time of the month or maybe she was wearing leather panties (lol).  I dunno.  Maybe my vomeronasal organ is playing games with my amygdala...trying to tell me I smell a different sort of "hyde" (lol).........

What a play on words?

The interesting thing is, I rarely pick up the sense now.  But every so often, every once in a while, if I'm in an elevator or something with a woman, I'll pick it up.  Do you think that's a pheremonal thang or is it something else?

Curious....