The smelly truth behind pheromones

Everyone’s heard of pheromones before, those invisible scents that supposedly attract potential partners.

We’ve seen them advertised in perfumes and colognes, but do they actually work? What are pheromones exactly, and do humans actually have them? Or are they restricted to the rest of the animal kingdom?

In this podcast episode of Huh? Science Explained, Imma Perfetto, a science journalist at Cosmos Magazine, is here to explain the stinky science behind pheromones.

Huh? Science Explained is a LiSTNR production.

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