Animal Pheromones

The three types of pheromones

The pheromones “olfactory signatures” are the smell that allows the mother buffalo to recognize its baby among hundreds of thousands, but also the human mother to recognize after only three hours the smell of her child on a shirt among ten others worn by other babies. In the same way ants, bees or termites have “olfactory signatures” that reveal their belonging to a specific family on the same territory. Territorial animals like felines, dogs or beavers disperse these pheromones to assert possession of that territory.
 
The alarm pheromones are produced and diffused in the air often accompanied by visual and acoustic signals in case of wound or danger. These pheromones have a very simple structure as they don’t carry an identification function. Actually, various species produce the same identical alarm pheromone and often various species on the same territory have learned to recognize the olfactory marks of other animals in order to increase their possibility of survival.
 
The sexual pheromones have a determining function in the reproduction process, often allowing to synchronize fecundation with ovulation. It is so for many sea organisms, crustaceans, and fishes but also for mammals. At the moment of ovulation, the female produces a pheromone that triggers in the male the production of sperm or sexual behavior. For many mammals, if not for all, horses, ovines, dogs and many others, the olfactory signal of the female is what triggers the passion of the male.

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Which Niche Perfumery?

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Non-Toxic Perfumes

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Animal scents

Animal scents In the past, perfumers used large amounts of aromatic substances produced by some animals. Today their price and their rarity prohibit their use in the modern scents of mass perfumery. The molecules of synthesis, poor substitutes,…