Introduction
Pheromones are so-called messenger substances which ensure that two people can make contact with each other and perceive each other in a certain way. What a pheromone is is difficult to describe because it is a messenger substance that a person (or an animal to an animal of the same species) sends out and another person receives without both of them knowing. Many patients equate pheromones with smell, although this is not entirely correct. Nevertheless, pheromones have significantly coined the term “being able to smell another person well”.
Pheromones – what is that?
What the pheromone is, can be compared and understood mainly with interpersonal relationships. It is important to know that pheromones are released by every individual, for example by flies, and only the same species will react to these pheromones. Pheromones are often assigned a sexual or attractive meaning.
This is because pheromones obviously play a decisive role in the choice of a partner. Although the term “being able to smell someone well” is not correct because pheromones are odorless, the messenger substances sent between two people seem to convey important information. There are first indications that pheromones can change and influence the sexual perception of a potential partner by up to 8%. Nevertheless, the field of pheromones is still quite unexplored.
Definition
Pheromones are chemical messengers that are exchanged between two individuals of the same species (e.g. mosquito and mosquito or human and human) without the possibility to control or influence this exchange and without the individuals noticing that the exchange is taking place. The word pheromone comes from the Greek and means “carrying hormone”. The exact function and mode of action of pheromones is still not clearly understood, especially in humans the effect of pheromones is still quite unexplored.
However, it is assumed that pheromones play a certain role in sexual orientation and in the choice of a partner. Although pheromones are odorless, they seem to have significantly influenced the phrase “being able to smell someone well”. In general, it can be said that a pheromone is emitted by one person and then leads to a certain reaction in the other, without both people being actively aware that this is happening.
What the reaction of the other person depends on is not yet fully understood, but it is assumed that pheromones can trigger different types of reactions. For example, it is possible that they trigger a specific behavioral response (in this case the pheromone is called a releaser) or that they provoke a physiological change (in this case the pheromone is called a primer). That pheromones also have a certain stimulating function also seems to be proven.
