The Playboy Advisor

June, 2000

My friends and I split the cost of a pheromone-based cologne additive that claimed it would boost our sexual attractiveness. After using the product carefully and religiously, we concluded that it made no difference. Do pheromones work? The manufacturer claims its product is extracted from the armpit sweat of healthy young men. Should that have tipped us off that we were getting ripped off?--F.B., New York, New YorkNot necessarily. If humans secrete sex pheromones, a sweaty armpit is a likely pl...