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- From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
- Subject: Re: Pheromones and Nihon Otoko (was Re: yellow cabs")
- Message-ID: <3554@aegis.or.jp>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 22:38:46 GMT
- References: <1hu0eoINNsq0@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1992Dec31.160148.25868@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- isc30176@nusunix1.nus.sg (CHEN JIA TYAN) writes:
-
- >: A while back, NOVA, a PBS science program had a program on smell.
- >: They showed how pheromones have profound effect on insects and
- >: some mammals. The program did not however go too deeply into its
- >: effect on humans. They did touch on the sychronization of menstral
- >: periods experienced by female roommates, presumably due to these
- >: chemicals. So there is definitely some truth to this subject.
- >
- >True true. BBC's Supersense also mentioned it. Unfortunately humans
- >are not that deep into scents as the animals. Oh, and the 'sexual
- >stimulent' scent from armpits comes from the wasteproducts of
- >micro-organisms living off the sweat, curiously enough.
-
- Interesting ... I'm not 100% sure but I think the pheronomes don't
- smell even though they covary with things that do.
-
- >: BTW, how DO makers of "musk" cologne (so highly recommended by
- >: Mr. Liu) get their ingredient. Do they collect sweat from some
- >: husky, sweaty guys? May be they use other male animals, like
- >: bulls, to increase production and reduce costs.
-
- >I've never smelt "musk" cologne before, but the very much treasured real
- >musk scent comes from the male musk-deer. So be careful next time you
- >go to central Asia.
-
- And in the case of some experiments (for scientific, not commerical
- purposes) they did indeed collect sweat from sweaty guys ... not
- sure how husky they were :-)
-
- Going back to the original topic, IMHO Japan is a "pheronome free
- zone". Don't know why but smells of many (all?) kinds have low
- value. Thus most people practically boil themselves each night in
- the ofuro (me too :-) and women wear relatively little perfume.
-
- This last part is OK with me because I am hyper-senstive to
- aromatics of all kind. When I'm around them (as in a woman with
- heavy perfume) my face starts itching, breaking out in a rash,
- and if it's in the sunshine my nose get extraordinarily red.
-
- Dave
-
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