scents

[jeninflorida]

okay, we all know and love perfume and different scents.

some scents are sexy, some romantic, some set a mood, some are a turn off.

how many movies or cheezie stories have there been where a guy has come up with a Pheromone that can turn a woman into a sex monster?

thinking the issue with that is that unless she's ovulating there is no sent in the world that will ramp up her sex drive. I mean this is the key, sure a scent, touch this and that can put you in the mood, but its easy to lose that mood.

so, from a scientific standpoint, the scent with a pheromone has to work on conjunction to trick the body into thinking its ovulating to trigger the body into wanting to mate, right?

did that make sense? long day...anyway, there are so many ways to spin this

thoughts?

 

[Black_Hat_Lee]

I guess if you're looking for some type of scientific justification to put into a story, scent alone really wouldn't work. Depending on the reaction you were looking for, it would have to be chemically induced.

Ecstasy is a good example. When you take E, it forces your body to dump it's entire store of serotonin into the body at one time. That's what causes the 'feel good' effect when you take a hit. In the real world, if you were to take a hit of E the next day, you wouldn't get nearly as strong an effect because it isn't the drug itself that creates the sensation, it just opens the flood gates. Your body would need about two weeks to rebuild the entire store of chemicals you'd just depleted.

So, your perfume or super mind control scent would have to do one of two thing. Either it triggers a massive hormone release all at once or it introduces a foreign chemical into the body that would affect brain and body chemistry. Either way could be interested to use in a story because either one could have different side effects after the moment has passed.

 

[jeninflorida]

well, a woman doesn't need the help but for men, if one could create a scent that worked....omg!

I guess if you're looking for some type of scientific justification to put into a story, scent alone really wouldn't work. Depending on the reaction you were looking for, it would have to be chemically induced.

Ecstasy is a good example. When you take E, it forces your body to dump it's entire store of serotonin into the body at one time. That's what causes the 'feel good' effect when you take a hit. In the real world, if you were to take a hit of E the next day, you wouldn't get nearly as strong an effect because it isn't the drug itself that creates the sensation, it just opens the flood gates. Your body would need about two weeks to rebuild the entire store of chemicals you'd just depleted.

So, your perfume or super mind control scent would have to do one of two thing. Either it triggers a massive hormone release all at once or it introduces a foreign chemical into the body that would affect brain and body chemistry. Either way could be interested to use in a story because either one could have different side effects after the moment has passed.

 

[want2_watchwife]

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[Texguy84]

Well, if you wanted to go the angle of "It only works when she's ovulating", there's an entire crowd that would probably be interested in that story.