For over 10 years, House Of Pheromones has been a trusted resource, hand-compiling reports, research, and conducting first hand “field-tests” on the effects of pheromones in real life.
I’ve personally observed 1000’s of real-world interactions firsthand… from casual conversations, romantic dating and pickup situations, professional environments, various social circles – and noticed how pheromones have subconsciously influenced peoples behavior & feelings around me… tilting perception in subtle, but noticeably powerful ways.
The old pheromone forums (now dead), were full of this kind of detail.
People testing single molecules and combos, reporting what changed. Vendors releasing blind testers. Dudes logging in to report dosage, weather, setting, cover scent, and reactions.
The best parts were repeated patterns that appeared when testing the same single pheromones: similar reactions and observations, but vastly different people, contexts, and situations.
As for the naysayers who say “pheromones don’t exist”, I already explained my position here in the starter guide. This is for the intrigued skeptic, or the beginners with an open mind.
The real reason “pheromone research” is so difficult to find outside of flimsy, often conflicting “clinical studies” is simple:
Pheromones are not an exact science in the way people want them to be.
A pheromone molecule does not “hit” every person the same way. Dose matters. Your behavior matters. Age, context, chemistry, alcohol, mood, the cover scent, the venue, and the person across from you matters.
You can’t replicate real human interactions in a lab. That’s why people constantly parrot the “pheromones don’t work” line over and over again, without ever giving it a real chance.
Think about it: how are scientists researching pheromone effects actually going to do that?
How would they replicate a crowded bar, a flirtatious silence, a woman developing an emotional attachment after just a few mere exposures?
Of course that’s not possible.
It takes social intuition, and an eye for behavioral nuance – the kind only possible through field use over time.
You need to observe how people react when they don’t know they’re being tested, and compare those reactions to a clean, baseline environment.
This page is a living catalog of 20+ pheromones and pheromone-like compounds tested and reported by the community over the years.
Almost every detailed report was hand compiled from reports, journal entries, and first hand experience. I’ve catalogued the main emotional cues, vocal shifts, attention spikes, micro-behaviors, and changes in social dynamics.
You will also find a brief description of each, with a link to a longer explanation if available.
Read this first
The useful way to think about pheromones is as a hidden layer of feeling people may experience around you. It’s a subconscious, but noticeable shift in the energy. I’ve described it before as “tuning in” – and once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
People become more open than usual. Women become more playful, relaxed, “touchy-feely”. People become unusually “locked on” to your presence, or strangely affected by you somehow… yet, they don’t consciously think, “this guy is wearing pheromones”.
It’s more like an underlying feeling, or perception of you that’s shifted. That is what made them so fascinating to test back in the early forum days. The same pheromone effects, across vastly different people, places and contexts were being reported. Believe the “pheromones are a scam” mainstream parrots if you want. But personally, there was enough evidence and people to confirm what I discovered to be true almost by complete accident.
This is a compilation and summary of years of reporting and research done by myself and the community from back then.
I have grouped these by what they seem to do socially, rather than by chemical family. If you are new to pheromones, start with the first three. Almost every serious men’s attraction formula is built around some version of that core.
The Attraction Core
The compounds that most attraction blends are built around, because they change the emotional and sexual charge around the wearer.
Androstadienone is the one that earned the “love pheromone” reputation. It is famous for making women feel warmer around the wearer: calmer, more content, more protected, and more emotionally open. The smoother reports do not sound like instant lust. They sound more like a woman feeling strangely safe near you and not having a clean explanation for it.
The bigger claim is the fallout effect. This is the old forum term for a crush that seems to linger after the interaction has ended. A woman thinks about the wearer later. She misses his presence. She gets quiet around him, or unusually soft, or slightly dreamy in a way that feels disproportionate to the amount of time they have actually spent together.
That is the part that makes skeptics roll their eyes, and fair enough. But it is also one of the most repeated effects in the field. Men reported it again and again: a woman who felt more attached after repeated exposure, a friend who suddenly acted like something had shifted, a date that remembered the night with more emotional weight than the night itself should have carried.
Androstenone is the backbone of many attraction formulas. It has the most obvious sexual weight. It can make the wearer feel more dominant, more masculine, and more charged, and it can make women read him as sexually present in a way that is hard to soften once it lands.
This is also the molecule most likely to punish bad dosing. A small amount can give you gravity. Too much can make you feel harsh, intimidating, rude, dirty, or threatening. The same signal that creates sexual tension in one setting can make people put a wall up in another.
Men often report a second effect from androstenone: other men react. Some show respect. Some test you. Some get tense without knowing why. It can create a kind of fear-based status, the feeling that you are not just another harmless guy in the room.
The old shorthand was simple: androstenone is powerful, but it has teeth. It is the thing you add when you want heat, edge, and masculine pressure. It is also the thing you learn to respect before you decide to wear it heavy.
Androstanone sits close to androstenone in spirit, but it behaves with more restraint. It still carries that masculine attention-grabbing quality. It can still create attraction, status, and a sense that the wearer has weight in the room. The difference is that it tends to do it without the same threatening edge.
That makes it useful in blends where androstenone would be too rough. Think less aggressive dominance, more composed command. It does not need to snarl to be noticed.
In the field, androstanone is often described as easier to wear socially. It gives you some of the alpha pull without turning the air metallic. You can still come across as sexual, but less likely to make people defensive before the conversation even starts.
Respect & Status
These compounds are less about raw attraction and more about how people rank, trust, and respond to the wearer.
Alpha androsterone is one of the great stabilizers. On its own, it can make the wearer seem more mature, reliable, calm, and trustworthy. It has a grounded quality. People may listen a little more carefully, assume competence faster, or treat you like someone who has his life handled.
In formulas, it often works like a backbone. It gives structure to more emotional or sexual molecules. It can make a blend feel more charismatic and less chaotic, which is why it shows up in attraction formulas that need more than raw heat.
The more intense reports connect androsterone to the fallout effect. In romantic blends, it can help create affection, attachment, and that sticky sense that the wearer matters. Pushed too far, that attachment can turn sharp: jealousy, possessiveness, clinginess, or someone watching your attention more closely than they used to.
Beta androsterone, also known as epi-androsterone, has a lighter status signature. It can make the wearer seem charismatic, youthful, socially smooth, and easier to like. Where alpha androsterone feels mature and grounded, beta androsterone has more of a clean, charming, socially magnetic feel.
This is why the old “swag” nickname stuck. It can elevate your perceived social value without making you seem cold or distant. People may treat you as higher status while still feeling comfortable enough to engage.
It also appears in many attraction blends because it can create affection and interpersonal chemistry. The effect is usually less sexual than androstenone and less emotionally heavy than androstadienone. It is closer to that pleasant feeling of liking someone quickly and assuming there is a reason.
Androsterone sulfate is unusual because it is not strongly coded as male or female in the same obvious way as some related compounds. The effect reported in the field is also less aggressive: warmer mood, more sociability, and a general tendency for people to see the wearer in a positive light.
It does not feel like a dominance hammer. It feels more like the room becoming easier to move through. People loosen up. The wearer feels less socially blocked. The group temperature rises a little.
That makes androsterone sulfate useful when you want the benefits of status without the sternness that can come with heavier masculine molecules. It is social, approachable, and quietly flattering.
Social & Mood
If the attraction core changes how people feel about you, these compounds change how easily they talk, laugh, confess, and relax.
Perception Shifters
These are the strange ones. They do not just seem to change mood. They seem to change how people visually and emotionally remember the moment.
Androstenetrione is one of the stranger molecules in the catalog. It is less mainstream than the attraction core, but the reports around it are unusually vivid. The famous effect is the “airbrush” quality: people appear more attractive, softer, and more visually polished. Not just the wearer. Everyone in range can seem a little better lit.
The emotional side may be even more interesting. Field reports describe nights that feel larger in memory than they were in real time. A normal interaction becomes warmer in hindsight. The room feels more romantic. The people feel more vivid. It can create a faintly euphoric memory trace, like the evening picked up a glow after it ended.
Then there is the “super glue” effect. People, especially women, may feel pulled into physical closeness. A hand rests on your arm longer than expected. Someone stands closer than the conversation requires. A body turns toward you and stays there. It is not always overtly sexual. Often it reads as affectionate, magnetized, and oddly natural.
Androstatrione is related in reputation to androstenetrione, but the reports are less complete and usually less dramatic. The most repeated effect is a kind of visual brightening. Colors and faces may feel a little more alive. Edges soften. The world can take on a faintly unreal, almost cartoonish quality.
Some users report that it makes people perceive the wearer as more attractive. Others mainly notice the change in their own perception. That uncertainty matters. This is a molecule with enough reports to be interesting, but not enough testing to treat the map as finished.
Still, the category is useful: not every pheromone-like effect is about making people talk more or feel sexually attracted. Some compounds seem to alter the atmosphere of perception itself, and androstatrione belongs in that strange corner.
The Wild Cards
These compounds are potent, debated, erratic, or context-sensitive. Interesting, yes. Beginner-friendly, usually no.
Pregnenolone is not widely used by mainstream vendors, which may be caution more than dismissal. The field reports make it sound potent. Worn well, it can make the wearer feel upbeat, goofy, sociable, and easier to enjoy. People may seem more intrigued by your presence, as though the ordinary version of you has become slightly more animated.
But pregnenolone has a reputation for being erratic. Small dose changes can shift the result hard. The same compound that makes you charming and funny in one test can feel off, scattered, or socially strange in another.
That makes it fascinating and slightly dangerous for casual use. It is the kind of molecule that rewards careful logging: amount, setting, mood, cover scent, weather, sleep, and reactions. Without that discipline, it becomes hard to know whether you found the sweet spot or simply got lucky.
Estratetraenol, usually shortened to EST, is best understood as a female-coded pheromone. A few men’s products use small amounts for comfort and buffering, but its main role is in women’s formulas. There it can create an air of softness, vulnerability, and emotional approachability.
The reported effect on men is protective. More chivalry. More cuddly behavior. More willingness to help, soften, guard, or move closer in a gentle way. It does not usually read like raw attraction. It reads more like a man wanting to take care of the woman wearing it, sometimes before he realizes he has shifted into that mode.
One reason often given in the pheromone world is that EST is associated with pregnancy-related biology, which may help explain the protective wiring it appears to touch. Whether that mechanism is settled or not, the field effect is worth separating from male attraction molecules. EST is not simply “sexy.” It is softer, more vulnerable, and more instinctive.
Oxytocin is not officially treated as a pheromone in the clean textbook sense, but it has lived in pheromone discussions for years because the reported effects sit so close to trust, comfort, and bonding. Older forum posts sometimes spelled it as “o.x.y.t.o.c.i.n” to avoid filters, which is why you may still see it written that way in older material.
This one is genuinely divided. Some people report strong results: increased trust, partner bonding, softer affection, and heavy love-like feelings. Others report nothing they can reliably reproduce. That split is important because it keeps the claims in proportion.
Oxytocin belongs on this page because the community has tested and argued about it for years. But it belongs with a warning label: for every person who swears it changed the emotional texture of a relationship, another person could not get it to do anything at all.
Alpha-THDOC is not officially a pheromone. It is derived from a neurosteroid and appears in this guide because pheromone users have reported effects that behave socially, or at least socially enough to matter.
The reports are strange. Hysterical laughter appearing out of nowhere. People losing their train of thought mid-sentence. Sudden bursts of concentration. A kind of blanking or clearing effect where the person seems to momentarily drop the script they were running.
The most interesting claim is that alpha-THDOC can “reset” perceptions of the wearer. In plain language, someone who had you filed away in one category may respond as if the file has been wiped or softened. That is hard to prove, but hard to ignore once you have seen the same description repeated by testers.
Beta-THDOC is usually described as the heavier sibling. It has a disinhibition effect that can be verbal and physical. If beta androstenol loosens honesty, beta-THDOC may loosen the body as well as the mouth.
People who like you may close distance without seeming to notice they have done it. People who do not feel comfortable may create more distance. That split is useful. It suggests the molecule may amplify what is already present rather than create a clean effect from nothing.
It also appears to turn up the volume on other pheromones. That can be useful if the rest of the blend is controlled. It can be ugly if the blend is already too aggressive, emotional, or chaotic. This is one of those compounds that should stay in mature hands, used deliberately, not casually sprayed into whatever social situation happens to be next.
EpiAlloPregnanolone is different because the most noticeable effect appears to happen in the wearer first. The reports describe a primal state: sharper hearing, sharper vision, increased alertness, and a faint on-edge feeling, like the body is scanning the room before the mind has decided there is anything to scan for.
That makes it less of a social charm molecule and more of an internal switch. It may change how you carry yourself because it changes how you perceive the environment. You feel more awake to the room, more animal, more aware of movement and sound.
The old description compared it to ancestral survival: the kind of attention you would want if you were standing near a dark treeline and something moved. Dramatic, yes, but it captures the tone. This is less “people adore me” and more “my senses just came online.”
Pheromone-Adjacent
These are not clean textbook human pheromones, but they have produced enough pheromone-like reports to belong in the practical map.
Methoxyestratetraenone, often called Meo-EST, is another underused compound with a very specific reputation. It can create crush-like feelings in women, but the character differs from androstadienone.
Androstadienone feels warmer, safer, more emotionally protective. Meo-EST reports often describe a physical flutter: butterflies, nervous affection, that strange bodily sensation women associate with being around someone they already feel strongly for.
That specificity is what makes it interesting. “Crush” is too broad a word. Meo-EST seems to point toward the physical sensation of romantic anticipation, the little internal lift before someone has a reason to admit they are affected.
Astaxanthin is not a pheromone in the strict sense. It is included here because Pheromone Treasures reportedly discovered its social value through blind molecule testing, and the resulting pattern was strong enough to earn a place in the field conversation.
The nickname is “the Disneyland effect” because the reports are simple and oddly consistent: things feel more fun. The social environment becomes easier. People drift into a better mood. The wearer can feel more inviting, warmer, and easier to approach.
It may also create a subtle status lift, but the main character is not dominance. It is pleasure. Astaxanthin seems to smooth social friction and make the room feel less ordinary, like the group has stepped into a slightly brighter version of the same night.
Copulins are awkward to discuss because the source material is biological and blunt. They are associated with the scent of fertile female vaginal secretions and natural lubrication during arousal. In female pheromone products, the purpose is straightforward: affect men sexually and physiologically.
The famous claim is that copulins can increase men’s testosterone by up to 150%. That number gets repeated often in pheromone circles, and it is one of the reasons people take copulins seriously even when they doubt almost everything else in the category.
For women wearing copulins, the effect can be powerful. Men may feel more sexually interested, more physically keyed up, or more drawn in without consciously identifying the source. For men wearing copulins, the situation becomes delicate. Trace amounts can add a sexual edge. Too much can make a man read like a player, a jerk, or a guy who has recently been with a woman.
That last point matters in relationships. The old warning is practical: if a partner smells copulins on you when the two of you have not been intimate, she may draw the worst conclusion before you have time to explain what you were testing.
The Untested Shadows
The compounds that never received enough field testing, but remain worth documenting for future experimenters.
Some molecules never made it through proper field testing. They were too expensive, too hard to source, too redundant, too subtle, or simply unlucky enough to appear when the forums were already fading. A few may be duds. A few may be sleeping giants. Most are question marks.
I am listing them anyway because a living field guide should leave breadcrumbs. The useful work in this space has always come from people willing to test carefully, compare notes honestly, and admit when a molecule does nothing.
If I had to watch any of them first, I would keep an eye on the two androstadienol isomers and pregnenolone sulfate. They sit close enough to known active families to deserve curiosity. The rest remain untested, but not forgotten.
Where to go from here
Once you understand the individual molecules, the real game becomes the blend.
A finished, high-quality pheromone formula is more like a full “atmosphere,” created by a combination of carefully chosen pheromones.
The best ones are built with intent:
A well-designed pheromone formula usually combines multiple elements working together at once: a romantic layer that creates emotional pull and connection, a status element that subtly increases the wearer’s perceived importance, a social component that keeps interactions warm, relaxed, and magnetic, and finally a carefully balanced “buffer” that smooths out stronger sexual signals so the overall vibe feels natural rather than heavy, intimidating, or strange.
But tuned, high-quality formulas are difficult to create. A little too much of one pheromone can throw off the entire mix. Too little and the effect disappears into the background.
That balance is what separates the scammers from the true enthusiast brands recommended by House Of Pheromones.
The products I recommend are carefully vetted, and usually come from formulators who are actual enthusiasts themselves:
People who understand the molecules, test obsessively, listen to field reports, adjust formulas over time, and put real thought, expense, and expertise into what they release.
The vast majority of the pheromone space is full of unscrupulous actors who promise almost anything while providing as little value as possible. These are the brands spending heavily on advertising while delivering low-quality products, barely what I would even classify as “pheromones.” They sell the fantasy because they cannot sell the field experience.
Anyway, I’ve babbled on long enough. Here’s where to go next:
Joe Masters
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