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Perfume has been a major player in the game of Love and Sex for centuries. Perfume not only makes us happy, evokes memories, and expresses individuality, but it is also often marked by the presence of pheromones and their analogues. Pheromones are externally secreted triggered hormones that stimulate sexual appetite. Analogues to human pheromones like [...]

Have you ever caught a whiff of someone as they breezed by you on the street and been instantly transported to another place? Scent is particularly effective at triggering emotional and psychological memories, as Proust so famously described in the opening chapter of In Search of Lost Time. Perfumes, above all, have powerful sensory associations [...]