Has anyone ever heard of a man being attracted to a woman's natural scent?

[seo1]

I've heard about women being attracted to men who have a dissimilar histocompatibility complex so as to bear children with strong, healthy immune systems, but I haven't heard much about natural scent playing a role in a man's attraction to a woman.

I'm just beginning to notice how much the natural smell of one particular woman attracts me to her. I can't stop smelling her! Just being close to her and getting that scent is extremely attractive to me and I don't really know why.

Can any guys/men attest to having similar experiences? Or do any girls/women have any experience with their boyfriends/husbands describing such an attraction to them? Any one of the biological basis for this phenomenon?

[Tom Church]

Definatly. Pheromones are what you're after.

They play a strong role in attraction, and there is a growing market for bottled pheromones which tend to consist of things like cucumber and soya bean oil. Smell has always played a strong role in attraction, hence the large perfume industry!

The US army has also been researching into Pheromones by attempting to build 'love bombs'. This is where they drop a bomb filled with extra strong pheromones to make hormone levels in men increase rapidly...the results of which I am not sure.

My rule of thumb though...if you can smell you're own BO, and you don't like, neither will a girl.

[Yellow]

Pheromones is the answer.

And yes, my boyfriend kept telling me he liked my natural scent and I didn't get it. I always thought it was either my detergent or my body wash, moisturizer or SOMETHING. But then, later, I tuned in and I could smell his scent and it is just sooo comforting [and arousing]. Pheromones are to blame!

[Honeywith4bees]

The closer a woman is to ovulation, the stronger her "scent". Biologically, it's meant to attract a partner so that her egg will get fertilized.
Newborn babies also can recognize and prefer the scent of their Mother to any other smell, they find it comforting.

I happen to love the smell of men! My favorite is "Eu du Sweaty Man on Sunny Fall Afternoon Chopping Wood"

[Elrond]

Originally Posted by Yellow

Pheromones is the answer.

We can't smell pheromones. It affects us, but it doesn't smell anything to us, so when we find a scent attractive, it is something different. Sure, pheromones can have an impact on that attraction, it can magnify it, but it is not something that we can say "I like his smell. It must be his pheromones."

[Plato]

Don't know, but I heard their periods attract bears.

[MyEyeIsOpen]

I can't smell at all, but I knew a blind guy who was all about how women smelled. It's not unusual, I hear.

[Alexjstrandberg]

yeah, I love smelling womens natural sent, especially on the back of the neck. Cologne and perfume messes up the attraction process because it attracts you to the wrong person.

[seo1]

I completely agree.

yeah something about the neck... I experience that same attraction to it. It's almost magnetic. very weird...

[Alexjstrandberg]

It's also very attractive for a woman when a man smells the back of her neck (if done right).

That and reaching up and grabbing her hair. There's something primal about it, god love our primal side

[SomeRandomGuy]

This is interesting. I had always thought it was normal to be attracted by a woman's scent. I find that the best way to truly appreciate something is to experience if fully, with all 5 senses. Knowing that this may not be a common thing has given me reason to reflect on it, which is of course always a very good thing.

[Kate Saltfleet]

Napoleon was reputed to like Josephine's natural odeur

And Plato's onto something, apparently if a group of humans were set upon by wild beasts, they go for menstruating women first, followed by anyone with an open flesh wound.

[meg0135]

i have heard about some women actually taking their vaginal juices and wiping it on their pressure points so people can smell their pheromones. i am being completely serious - i am not making this up. would that even work??

[seo1]

haha maybe on a subconscious level. What exactly do you mean by pressure points?

I'm finding more and more lately that body chemistry affects me personally more than what I would describe as my physical "type". The smell and body chemistry of a woman that I'm involved with right now seem to be overpoweringly intoxicating.

She is not really my physical type but maybe she's wiping her vaginal juices on herself before we meet up. lol

Interesting concept though.... where'd you hear of it?

[meg0135]

they put it on their wrists and ankles

i always heard that some women do it to attract men.

[Elrond]

Originally Posted by meg0135

they put it on their wrists and ankles

i always heard that some women do it to attract men.

It is where major arteries run, or something like that. Putting them on places like that magnifies the effect. I personally put my perfume on my wrists and the spot on my throat were you can take your pulse.

[Enlightenment]

Yes, I read that women are attracted to men who have similar natural scents as their own father's. Therefore, it would stand to reason that a man would be attracted to a woman with a similar scent as his mother's.

But does perfume and cologne really mess it up? I guess so, because if a guy is wearing the right cologne, I mean a good one, then it seems that it doesn't matter if he's 'not my type', he still seems attractive to me.

Meg...I read that also, but it was a magazine article suggesting women do that!

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[Felex]

I'm not sure but this one timeI was really attracted to this older, and we were going to this b-day and I didn't have a clean shirt(I stayed the night)so she let me barrow the raiders t-shirt she was wearing....for some reason I got really horny, but who knows.

[Rose of Cairo]

Originally Posted by meg0135

i have heard about some women actually taking their vaginal juices and wiping it on their pressure points so people can smell their pheromones. i am being completely serious - i am not making this up.

I know.

would that even work??

Yes it does.

[polyfulcrum]

The scent of my partner is one of the things that can be a deal-breaker. Think about it: If the person you're interested in is attractive, right up to the point where you are close enough to smell them, this isn't going to work. Cologne can be changed, the personal odor part, that's pretty non-negotiable.

As far as pheremones go, the study I read reported that women are more attracted to men that have _different_ genetics than they do. Ostensibly, this would produce a child with a stronger, more diverse, immune system. I haven't seen anything on the inverse being true, but it would make sense.