are there such things as pheromone candles?
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yep available at www.slumberparties.com
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its called a flehmen response it helps smelling certain substances. See link for info so I don't have to write it all here.
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My sister make a certain kind of candle to help with her ADD. She is an herbalist. You may want to ask her. (karen@altnature.com )
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No, I have found out in subsequent years that very nice people I know with families were really gay and they became happy only when they admitted they were gay. It was a shock to me, but they were the same nice people they always were, they were just born gay and tried to be like everyone else. Their brains are different.\n\nFor Gay Men, an Attraction to a\nDifferent Kind of Scent\n\nby Nicholas Wade\nPublished May 10, 2005, NYTimes.com\n\n\nUsing a brain imaging technique, Swedish researchers have shown that homosexual and heterosexual men respond differently to two odors that may be involved in sexual arousal, and that the gay men respond in the same way as women.\n\nThe new research may open the way to studying human pheromones, as well as the biological basis of sexual preference. Pheromones, chemicals emitted by one individual to evoke some behavior in another of the same species, are known to govern sexual activity in animals, but experts differ as to what role, if any, they play in making humans sexually attractive to one another.\n\nThe new research, which supports the existence of human pheromones, is reported in today's issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Dr. Ivanka Savic and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.\n\nThe two chemicals in the study were a testosterone derivative produced in men's sweat and an estrogen-like compound in women's urine, both of which have long been suspected of being pheromones.\n\nMost odors cause specific smell-related regions of the human brain to light up when visualized by a form of brain imaging that tracks blood flow in the brain and therefore, by inference, sites where neurons are active. Several years ago, Dr. Savic and colleagues showed that the two chemicals activated the brain in a quite different way from ordinary scents.\n\nThe estrogen-like compound, though it activated the usual smell-related regions in women, lighted up the hypothalamus in men. This is a region in the central base of the brain that governs sexual behavior and, through its control of the pituitary gland lying just beneath it, the hormonal state of the body.\n\nThe male sweat chemical, on the other hand, did just the opposite; it activated mostly the hypothalamus in women and the smell-related regions in men. The two chemicals seemed to be leading a double life, playing the role of odor with one sex and of pheromone with another.\n\nThe Swedish researchers have now repeated the experiment but with the addition of gay men as a third group. The gay men responded to the two chemicals in the same way as did women, Dr. Savic reports, as if the hypothalamus's response is determined not by biological sex but by the owner's sexual orientation.\n\nDr. Savic said that she had also studied gay women, but that the data were "somewhat complicated" and not yet ready for publication.\n\nThe finding is similar to a report in 1991 by Dr. Simon LeVay that a small region of the hypothalamus is twice as large in straight men as in women or gay men. The brain scanning technique used by the Swedish researchers lacks the resolution to see the region studied by Dr. LeVay, which is a mere millimeter or so across. But both findings suggest that the hypothalamus is organized in a way related to sexual orientation.\n\nThe new finding, if confirmed, would break ground in two important directions, those of human pheromones and human sexuality.\n\nMice are known to influence each other's sexual behavior through emission of chemicals that act like hormones on the recipient's brain and so are known as pheromones. Hopes by the fragrance industry, among others, of finding human pheromones were dashed several years ago when it emerged that a tiny structure in the nose through which mice detect many pheromones, the vomeronasal organ, is largely inactive in humans, having lost its nervous connection with the brain.\n\nResearchers interpreted that to mean that humans
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Hmm, is that bait I smell?
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"If a candle flame emits a spark, you will recieve good news coming from the same direction in which the spark flew. To determine the identity of the sender, note the wax drippings. If drips form on the right side of the candle, the sender will be male; drips on the left portend a female sender. His or her initial also may be found among the pools of wax."
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Yes they really do work here is a great article that explains a study that was done recently. I'm not sure about artifical phermones. You might want to email the people who did this study to find out more. Sorry.\n\n\n\n  When a Woman Smells Best\nBy Sara Goudarzi\nSpecial to LiveScience\nposted: 18 January 2006\n07:52 am ET\n \n \n\nThe scent of a woman is more attractive at certain times of the month, suggests a new study that had men sniffing women's armpit odor. \n\n"We were interested whether armpit odor changes across menstrual cycle," said study author Jan Havlieek of the Department of Anthropology at Charles University, Prague. "To test this, we asked a group of women to wear cotton pads in their armpits for 24 hours."\n\nThe women didn't wear perfumes, use deodorants, eat spicy or smelly foods, smoke, drink alcohol or use hormonal contraceptives such as the pill. Body odor was collected during three phases: menstrual (at the beginning); follicular (between the first day of menstruation and the onset of ovulation); and luteal (the fertile stage).\n\n"The fresh pads were subsequently rated for their attractiveness and intensity by a group of 42 men," Havlieek told LiveScience. \n\nThe most attractive smells, men said, were from the time between the first day of menstruation and ovulation. \n\nThe cycle\n\nThe typically 28-day menstrual cycle involves the physiological changes that occur in a woman to prepare for a possibility of pregnancy. It is controlled by the reproductive hormone system. \n\nA cycle is divided into four parts and starts on the first day of menstruation, which is the shedding of tissue and blood from the womb.  In the follicular phase, a dominant ovarian follicle—which is a sack that contains the ova, or egg—grows, becoming ready to ovulate. The mature egg is then released in the phase known as ovulation around day 12. The cycle ends with the fertile phase. \n\nAlthough many men would tell you they're always in the mood, Havlieek and colleagues discovered that men find odors during the follicular phase the most attractive and least intense. On the other hand, the highest intensity smells, corresponding to the lowest attractiveness for men, were found during the time of menstrual bleeding.\n\n "Traditionally it's believed that ovulation in human female is concealed and there are no changes in attractiveness across the cycle," Havlieek said.\n\nThe study is detailed in the January issue of the journal Ethology. \n\nFurther sniffing\n\nTwo other studies by different research teams came to similar conclusions. But those investigationsused T-shirts for odor sampling, "making it difficult to pinpoint the source of the smell," said Havlieek, whose team restricted sampling to armpits only. \n\nFinally, the attractiveness of women's faces also changes during the month.\n\nHavlieek's team found that facial images of women in the follicular phase—when the dominant ovarian follicle is getting ready to ovulate—are considered more attractive as compared to images taken in the luteal or fertile phase of the cycle.\n\nThe researchers hope to find out which chemical compounds are responsible for the odor changes across a woman's menstrual cycle
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yes mia bella's candles
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There are candles offered on QVC that you can get about 12 sometimes 16 in an order (they are from Valerie Parr Hill and they are soy candles.) The price is usually about 30.00 plus shipping of 5.95 which would come to about 3.00 a candle and they are really nice, I have given them often.\n\nAnother great thing is to make fudge, and put them in Christmas gift bags for everybody.
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Depends on what it is for. Maybe a candle or something of that sense?
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A candle: wax = white petticoat, flame = red nose\nThe longer it stands (burns) the shorter it grows.
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Yes, but not for humans. Our attraction to other people is based on brain processing and not just smelling a chemical.
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They make those, seriously?  Maybe so if someone is sucking one they have a nice smell?
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Yes. For example, there are materials in photoelectric sensors made with a form of silica used to convert "light signals" into electrical impulses; we use them everyday in devices we call photocells. They're what turn those outside lights on when it gets dark. Light to sound conversion, and vice versa,  can be accomplished with different materials and circuitry.
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I work for a home based company if you would like to check it out.\n\nwww.amyscandles.scent-team.com
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Not really, smell goods are usually a good gift idea, I like scented baths, my husband buys them for me :)
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I believe it has to do with pheromones.