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Posted: 1/27/2007 8:10:39 PM | So I'm watching The View one day and a celebrity guest indicates that she has been researching what turns people on, specifically focusing on the sense of smell. One of the things that she mentioned was that males are supposedly sexually aroused by the scent of pumpkin. Every man I have mentioned this too has laughed his ass off. Considering Thanksgiving and the smell of pumpkin pie it is actually sort of creepy.
So I wonder, has anyone else heard of this or some other crazy smell or taste that is supposed to act as an aphrodesiac, or run into something that they really believe works but everyone will think you are nuts? | |
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Posted: 1/27/2007 8:20:49 PM | I recently read that the smell of donuts is supposed to do it for guys. Is that why donuts have holes and I just never knew?
I've read lots of rhetoric on what smells act as an aphrodisiac. The only studies that actually make *scents* to me are the studies that say clean smelling hair, or clean sweat. Those would have more to do with pheromones than actual odor I imagine.
At least us women have it easy with the taste of chocolate. Credible neural studies were done on women given chocolate, and it set off tons of pleasure receptors linked to orgasm.
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Joined: 1/7/2007
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Posted: 1/27/2007 8:23:56 PM | | pumpkin pie??? shouldn't that have been 'cherry pie'........lol | |
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Posted: 1/27/2007 8:31:57 PM | Smells are a tricky thing, and there are many reasons that act as this single problem, making it that much harder to solve.
First of all, every person smells things slightly differently. Age has a big effect on it too. My father used to hate cilantro like he hated anything evil. I currently do, but he's since developed a taste for it that borders on the obsessive. It's the smell that gets me.
Second of all, people have different, ahem, tastes in smells, so to speak. I like natural, savory smells. Others like flowery, potpourri scents. A bunch seem to like the artificial junk you find in magazines and at malls.
As if that weren't enough, the different smells are often combined, leading to a completely crazy barrage of smells that can really make someone stand out like a sore thumb, but usually in a way that stands to his chagrin.
Finally, there's the matter of how sensitive people are to smells. My nose is sensitive enough to tell the difference between sugar and salt, while many of my friends can hardly smell the difference between their home's interior and the streets outside.
In my opinion, there's nothing better than those earthy smells that come from the body on their own. With the obvious exceptions, of course.
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Posted: 1/27/2007 8:43:41 PM | i have heard that about pumkin pie as well, and i also laughed my ass off...i cant stand the smell of pumpkin.
but the smell of hair pie...thats a different story.mmmmmmmmmm. let's eat | |
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Posted: 1/27/2007 8:44:52 PM | Sex in general is part physiological, part mental. I think that people associate feelings with certain smells because they remind them of someone or an experience. You smell that scent, and go straight to emotion. I know that English Leather and Polo do it for me, not so much I think because of any type of chemical reaction but because of the memories that are triggered by those smells.
A guy on a diabetes thread said something about pure pepper and asparagus. | |
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Posted: 1/27/2007 9:46:57 PM | | I had a guy in high school that would sit behind me and smell my hair...kind of creepy but he loved the scent...for me I love Axe...or any scent on a male..here in Lethbridge it seems that men go for two things...wearing nothing..or layering it on so thick that your nose hairs are burning..lol | |
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Posted: 1/27/2007 9:50:02 PM |
here in Lethbridge
 I lived in Leth for 2 yrs and I can back-up this claim! It's been 8 yrs since I moved away from there and I STILL am trying to grow my nose hairs back!! LOL
ot --- runnin' out to buy some pumpkin scented candles for tomorrow night... mind you, I could put a bounce dryer sheet under his pillow and THAT would work too!
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Posted: 1/27/2007 10:26:38 PM | | I actually heard on a radio station this exact topic. The question was directed to the female population and was, "Which of the following smells do women think that men get sexually aroused by?" The answers were: Fresh mowed grass, Sweat, or pumpkin pie. You guessed it: The answer was pumpkin pie. No clue as to why though? | |
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Posted: 1/27/2007 10:32:12 PM | | I would think men would get turned on by the smell of a new car, pizza, and beer. | |
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Posted: 1/27/2007 11:11:17 PM | lol nurse...so you know what I am talking about
all about smelling nice but I really like being able to smell other stuff without it burning.. | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 12:03:58 AM | | CINNAMON ROLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 1:04:52 AM | | I've actually wondered aloud why they haven't come up with a bacon scented perfume for ladies... You'd have to beat them off with a stick. | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 1:11:41 AM | Vanilla gets me everytime.
Or any type of berry smell. I love the Bath and Body works type stuff.
I like the way a girl smells, I'll be all over her. | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 2:50:28 AM | | Cucumber Melon or the whatever the Purple bottle from Victoria Secrets is with the purple flower on it. | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 3:03:13 AM | Bearwoman: (quote) "I would think men would get turned on by the smell of a new car, pizza, and beer." - actually, that would prbly do it for me... is it italian sge, red pprs and xtra cheese? - anything but Bud? 
ACTUALLY - I heard the vanilla and cinnamon also. I would have thought motor oil and engine grease............ - had a male friend at work that would walk by and bite me on the neck when I wore Obsession. Think it was the musky scent to it. Drove him ape. | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 3:09:46 AM | MMMMMmmmmmmmm........Easy.........Cotton sheets............Leather..................Burning wax............Sweat.........In that order | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 4:00:25 AM | dewberry from the body shop
and fresh gardenias and honeysuckles | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 8:27:18 AM | LOL @ pumpkin pie..wow..the way to a man's heart really IS through his stomach? LOL *Makes mental note to self....*
Jokes aside..if you want to try a really sensual scent..the Green Tea body mist by Healing Gardens is light, fresh, and really natural smelling. The good thing about it is you can spray yourself all over with it, and not walk around with a 'cloud' around you. They have really nice lotions, bath salts etc to match it ... | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 10:30:05 AM | i've read quite a bit about the pumpkin pie thing. apparently, the next favored scent was lavender.
my ex loved lavender ~ we grew a nice little patch of the provence ~ but his favorite is ylang-ylang. i sent him a letter (he's in jail right now), and before i mailed it, i put it in a ziploc bag with a cottonball saturated with ylang-ylang essential oil. made him pretty happy.
no one makes a pumpkin essential oil, but i bet if you mixed cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg essentials with vanilla oleoresin, you could come up with something close. i'd love to give it a try one of these days. | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 10:37:06 AM | | Actually, Google turns up lots of hits on Pumpkin pie essential oil. | |
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Posted: 1/28/2007 10:37:19 AM | Kenneth Cole "Black" drives me crazy
I also love the smell of fresh Basil.....go figure | |
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