Episode

Do Humans Have Pheromones?

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IFLScience - We Have Questions
Published
Aug 25, 2025
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2321
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Summary

Humans smell, there’s no denying it, but are some of those smells sending out chemical signals we aren’t consciously aware of? Are we, like ants, giving off pheromones? We spoke to Dr Tristram Wyatt, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, to find out.