Science continues to validate the power of pheromones in the attraction, mating and communication process. Please use the links below as a reference. Happy Reading!

yourtango.com - Not Tonight: What's Behind Your Lackluster Libido
It is interesting to note that human females need their own pheromones to feel turned on. If the pheromones aren't there, it's more difficult to be in the mood.

StyleWatch/People: Justin Talks Scents and Sex Appeal
"The greatest scents in the world are pheromones."

“I sort of feel like nothing should take away from pheromones, because it’s been chemically proven that those are the most attractive scents on people.”
- Two quotes from Justin Timberlake

whyfiles.org: The Science of Love
And pheromones, it turns out, can act at vanishingly small concentrations, below what the sense of smell can detect.

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/science-of-sex-appeal-attractive-man-funk.html

There's no such thing as attractive male odor ... or is there? Find out how ovulating woman perceive male body odor and watch a smelly experiment in Discovery Channel's "The Science of Sex Appeal" program.

AJC.com: Couples’ chemistry: Pheromones in focus again in new personal-care items
The pheromone of choice for men is a family of steroids, related to testosterone, found near the axillary glands in the underarm area. For women, a commonly used compound is estratetraenol, a derivative of the sex hormone estradiol.

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/science-of-sex-appeal-incest-avoidance-odor.html

Research has shown that a woman's sense of smell protects her from mating with a relative. Find out how in Discovery Channel's "The Science of Sex Appeal."

people.com: ESSE L. MARTIN, 31, actor, New York City.
The Broadway-trained Law & Order regular with the bedroom eyes dates often... and cologne ("I let my pheromones do their thing"). A Marvin Gaye fan, he says "real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest." Real women applaud.

pnas.org: TRP2: A candidate transduction channel for mammalian pheromone sensory signaling

Psychology Today: The Truth About Pheromones: Part 2
Pheromones come in two forms: "primer pheromones" that cause slow, long-term physiological changes such, as hormonal effects; and "releaser" (or signaling) pheromones that produce rapid behavioral effects, such as mating.

Neuroendicronology Letters: Human Pheromones: "Integrating Neuroendocrinology and Ethology"
The effect of sensory input on hormones is essential to any explanation of mammalian behavior, including aspects of physical attraction.

Monell Chemical Senses Center
This non-profit organization is doing amazing research into how we perceive our world via our senses. Monell scientists serve as expert sources on topics related both to taste and smell and also their own fields of specialization.

National Post: Invisible ads: subliminal messages fail to control behaviour
Humans pick up thousands of cues every day that they don't necessarily register cognitively, she said. "We're very affected by our environment," she said. "But many of the factors that influence our behaviour fly below our level of consciousness." For example, she said, the chemical pheromones a person emits can either attract or repulse another person without either ever knowing.

sciencedaily.com - Women's Brains Recognize, Encode Smell Of Male Sexual Sweat
A new Rice University study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that socioemotional meanings, including sexual ones, are conveyed in human sweat.

Deccan Herald - A World Without Ants / Pheromones Rule
Put a pheromone in the wrong place, or remove it from a trail to food, and the ants get confused...
“When you model ants and when you model the brain, there are some great similarities.”

The Why Files: In the pits, women win by a nose!
An evolutionary outlook may explain this instance of female superiority, says Preti. “In humans, there is lots of evidence that people use odor as part of mate selection. The female in particular uses it to help distinguish who might be the best mate, genetically speaking.”

allure / MSNBC: Feeling Sexy is All in the Mind
Still, as Roach describes in "Bonk," the idea that a human sex hormone can be identified and isolated (and even packaged and sold) has long captured the scientific imagination.

Pheromones - Some Females Can Smell Reproductive Fitness And Even Ancestry In Males
According to Lassance, "Our demonstration of pheromone-based female mate choice and identification of a male courtship pheromone in ECB is of particular importance because it may alter our understanding of the role of pheromones in species formation."

NYTimes: Varying Sweat Scents Are Noted by Women
"In surveys, people say that body odors are important in selecting a mate."
Two regions of the brain, the right orbitofrontal cortex and the right fusiform region, responded significantly more to the sexual sweat of men than to any of the other smells."

Pittsburgh Post: A kiss is just a kiss ... or is it?
Suspected human pheromones include androstenone and androstadienone, which may affect mood and the flight or fight response. The question is whether humans excrete enough of these compounds to elicit a response.

Edmonton Sun: Nature's Foreplay
A quick ode to the Al Pacino movie Scent of a Woman about a blind old curmudgeon with an uncanny nose for women.Careful boys. Like a moth to a flame, burned by the fire, your lady friend may not be what she seems.Female moths release a pheromone in the air that drives males wild with desire.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Valentine's Day Rx: Four Future Love Drugs
"We know [the hormone] oxytocin can increase trust between humans and make them more in tune to each other's feelings," said Larry Young.

thefreelibrary.com: Pheromones and Career Advancement
Pheromones may be an excellent tool for advancing your career. During these trying times we need to avail ourselves of every tool that may help improve success. At some point you may have to convince management that your idea is the best way to go. You may need that extra factor so that you stand out from your peers, have the best chance for advancement, or find yourself fighting to save your job.

Augusta Chronicle: Scientists pinpoint chemicals of love
It is something that we know to be affected," Dr. Matsunami said. "There are certain components, a smell affecting your emotions, yet it seems so mysterious. It's not as direct as visual cues. So it's doing something but we don't know how it is doing it or why it is doing it. I think that is the most fascinating point of the research at the moment.

 U.S. News and World Report: Pucker Up! What Science is Discovering About Why We Kiss
There are probably also chemical messages being sent that we've barely begun to identify. While the term "pheromone" has been used to describe chemical messages detected by special sensory organs in many animals, its use to describe chemicals in humans has been more confusing, since we don't possess the same organs. But nomenclature aside, the idea that humans emit some kind of chemical signals, whether pheromones or something else, that are sensed by and may influence other humans, is pretty well accepted, says Woodley. 

OregonLive.com : Uncommon Scents Attract the Opposite Sex
Pheromones are the new hope for a love potion. Pheromones are chemicals -- some odorous, some not -- that one animal lets off to change the behavior of another. Scientists are just starting to explore pheromones and other chemicals that may course through bodies and brains in love. Evidence is piling up that human pheromones exist, though no one is quite sure what they are or how they work.

Fox News: Women Can Smell a Man's Sexual Intentions
It's not hard to tell when a guy is "happy to see you."
The twinkle in his eye, his swagger, that sexy smile — all are clear signs he's in the mood.
And, at least subconsciously, a woman can also tell by the scent of his sweat, according to new research.

Times Online
Researchers have found that a passionate kiss unleashes a complex chemical surge into the brain which makes a lover feel excited, happy or relaxed.

Fox Atlanta Feature
"You can't see them, feel them, or smell them, but they may have a huge influence on whom you find attractive. No, they aren't Cupid's invisible henchmen, although their effect might be just as magical."

NBC / TODAY SHOW / MSNBC‘Joy of Sex’ needed update, says new edition’s author
After 38 years, the hirsute lothario on the cover of “The Joy of Sex” has finally gotten a shave and a haircut, and the woman in his arms has finally gotten equal time. But the underlying message of the new and updated version of America’s venerable boudoir book is the same:

Sex is fun.

“First of all, the science has completely changed. We know so much more about how sex works, how our bodies work. We know about hormones. We know about pheromones.

Sexual Pheromones: Myth or Reality?
Half a century after the discovery of pheromones in animals, scientists have yet to conclusively identify a single such chemical in humans. Yet the term is bandied about regularly in reference to people and the supposedly silent means by which they communicate.

WebMD: Animals use Pheromones to Communicate, but do Humans?
Some couples just seem to have a certain chemistry together. Research is showing that they might be exactly right.  

WebMD: Love Is All in Your Head... Or Is It in Your Genes?
In humans, the effect is quite different, because they have to inhale their own pheromone for it to work," Peter Pugliese, MD, PhD, tells WebMD. From the nose, the pheromone travels to a part of the brain involved in emotions and sex drive. 

Naked Scientist: Science of Sex, Smell and Pheromones...
Today's show is about Cupid's Chemistry - the science of sex, smell and pheromones - with Cambridge University olfaction and pheromone researcher Dr. Peter Brennan, who joins us to discuss how the nose picks up smells, Prof. Steve Jones, from University College London who describes why animals and plants have sex,

BBC: The Magic of Sexual Attraction
Pheromones - the colourless, odourless chemical signals given off by the body - are thought to affect behaviour in both animals and humans at a sub-conscious level.

NY Times: Exotic-Dancer Economics
Researchers found that tips were highest when a dancer was at peak fertility, as would be suggested by previous research that shows a woman is most attractive to men just before ovulation.

BBC: Secrets of Human Attraction
A gene that could explain how humans pick up powerful chemical signals called pheromones may have been pinpointed for the first time.

The Washington Post: Sniffing out Human Pheromones
There was ample evidence that human pheromones exist; babies show a clear preference for pieces of clothing that have been worn by their own mothers, for example, and research suggests that men and women choose their mates in part by sniffing out partners with compatible immune systems.

NY Times: Human Pheromone Link May Have Been Found
Scientists have identified the first human gene that may be linked to pheromones, the odorless molecules that in other animals trigger primal urges including sex.

ABC Australia: Sex Organ Up Your Nose
Female VNO's responded to male skin smells. But the VNOs did not respond to skin smells from the same sex. But now we are beginning to prove that we humans can influence each other with our smells - and, that we pick up these smells with a strange sex organ inside our noses!

CBS News: Sexual Orientation In The Brain 
"It turns out that sniffing a chemical from testosterone, the male sex hormone, causes a response in the sexual area...These chemicals are thought to be pheromones — molecules known to trigger responses such as defense and sex in many animals."

CNN: Study Finds Proof That Humans React to Pheromones
"The power of smell is undeniable, as the multi-billion dollar perfume industry testifies. But is it possible that humans are influenced by airborne chemicals undetectable as odors, called pheromones?"

Pheromones: Potential Participants in Your Sex Life: June 25, (CNN) — "You've never heard of pheromones? Well, it's time to learn about the part they play in your sex life, because it could be substantial."
Clues Behind Pheromones and Sex: (WebMD) — "Pheromones, those mysterious, scentless chemicals that some say drive human sexual behavior, have been studied for decades. But now researchers say they've finally found proof that mammals -- such as humans and mice -- are actually programmed to detect and use them. "