title: Cosmetic perfumes vs. human pheromones (natural chemical scents) of the human female and male in signalling and performing context of their sexual behaviour.
abstract: Scent communication in man is undoubtedly of importance, although it is unconscious, rather than active, as compared to subhuman primates. Besides human sexual life it also affects a number of further characteristics of human life and its infrastructure including the mother-child relationship, creation of the odour basis of the family with the possibility to identify the family members solely by their odour as well as other parameters investigated thus far. Pheromones have effect upon the selection of a suitable partner of the opposite sex (or of the same sex in homosexual partners). The formation of specifically significant responses during communication between the two sexes, first of all in sexual life and its manifestations, may also be influenced by pheromone-based perfumes or classical cosmetic perfumes, as far as they are selected and used appropriately. The situation is much easier if the partners are of the olfactory type where for both partners the mutual olfactory parameters are the most attractive for their sexual life and its parameters, which significantly contributes to the quality of their overall coexistence (Ref. 29).
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Faculty ofMedicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. milzav@chello.sk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zaviacic
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sisovsky
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zaviacic
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010476:Perfume; D049049:Pheromones, Human; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012903:Smell
chemical_list: D010476:Perfume; D049049:Pheromones, Human