What about Pheremones? And other magical sense.

I remember once my daughter wanting to go to a dance and be noticed. She was in high school. Like all girls she wanted to stand out in the crowd and find someone special. She had not been feeling very special. There were no boys that were particularly interested in her, and she just wanted to feel downright attractive to someone other than her parents. This is understandable.

So, I picked up a book that had some hints to bathing with some herbs and witch hazel. We put it all in the bath and that night she had at least three different boys that were interested. She never went without a boyfriend up until the day she married. (Her husband is very thankful she's going without boyfriends now.)

So, was it the herbs that brought out something special that boys found attractive, or did it just raise her confidence enough so that she carried herself better and was more noticed? Could she really have released pheromones naturally?

The answer is a big whopping "perhaps."

Today you can find companies that produce pheromone creams, lotions, and perfumes which promise to enhance your love life. But do they really work? Is it worth shelling out big bucks for a chance that you might get lucky?

Well, according to recent studies our sense of smell can actually create different moods and emotions in others. However, the human sexual pheromone is not easily identified, and science is still out on if it makes a difference in our sexual prowess.

Interesting enough, however, is that science has also determined that tears have a scent to them. As a matter of fact tears can actually reduce sexual arousal in men and lower their testosterone levels. Scientists wanted to see if gathering tears from crying women in a jar and having men smell them would bring out empathy or sympathy, but nope. Smelling the tears made them think that sex was definitely out of the question.

And although that sexual pheromone that is found in boars that make them raise their rear in expectation of satisfaction has been identified for the piggish creatures, those same pheromones do not have the same affect on human beings. As a matter of fact even after decades of study the little human pheromone has kept science guessing and has remained quite elusive.

But don't give up hope. Evidently from a study done in 2005 the olfactory glands were tested on gay men, straight men, and women via their perspiration. Sweaty t-shirts were used and the results were rather interesting. Gay men and heterosexual men both preferred the sweat smell of women. Women preferred the sweat smell of men whose DNA was far from their own, making scientists trigger the believe that women are attracted to men that could potentially father their children.

So, maybe spending the big bucks on pheromone scents won't really help you scientifically, but if they help boost your confidence that might be just as good.

It is easier than trying armpit sniffing after all.