82. The TRUTH About Pheromones... From An Evolutionary Biologist! (w/ Dr. Tristram Wyatt)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
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🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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ARE PHEROMONES PHER REAL? CAN A SPECIFIC FRAGRANCE REALLY GET YOU LAID? ARE THERE ANY ACTUAL SCIENTIFICALLY-PROVEN APHRODISIACS? Why do we like one person’s natural scent and not someone else’s? If pheromones aren’t real, why do scientific studies that seemingly prove their validity exist? Are our scent preferences determined by nature or nurture?
So many questions and today we cover them all with award-winning Author and Evolutionary Biologist, Dr. Tristram Wyatt. Dr. Wyatt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. His focus is in animal behavior and pheromones, and on this subject, he’s given a TEDx talk, as well as authored an award-winning textbook called Pheromones and Animal Behavior.
READ MORE ABOUT DR. WYATT & HIS WORK: https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-tristram-wyatt
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. I am currently experiencing a weird phenomenon and I need to know if this has happened to any of you. |
| 0:19.2 | So Twisted Lily and shout out Twisted Lily, thank you so much |
| 0:21.9 | for this, has been generously sending me lots of samples of new releases and fragrances I haven't yet |
| 0:26.7 | tried, and one of the perfumes in that package was none other than Zerjov Casamirati, Dama Bianca. |
| 0:34.4 | I took one look at the notes and I was like, this is going to be a home run from me. |
| 0:37.9 | This is totally my kind of scent. It's got notes of violet and iris and lilac and malt and |
| 0:44.6 | vanilla and am breath seed and cumquat and musk and lime. Oh my. But here's where it got weird. |
| 0:49.7 | Okay. So upon spraying it, I had a very strong gut reaction. I sprayed it and immediately I was like, this is me in a perfume. |
| 0:56.9 | This is absolutely beautiful. |
| 0:59.4 | And to give you a reference point of what it was that I was smelling, it kind of felt like |
| 1:03.4 | the in-between of the candle Mison Seer at L'Istays Alps, which you know I love and I |
| 1:08.6 | describe as a sort of like pillowy, fluffy cloud |
| 1:11.6 | with like heliotrope and iris and violet. |
| 1:15.3 | And then maybe something like dead cool blonde o three, which is more of like the violet |
| 1:18.9 | raspberry saffron. |
| 1:20.5 | It's like makeupy and almondy and I was loving it. |
| 1:26.3 | Anyway, something changed, but it wasn't in the smell. It was just in my opinion. It was like my brain and my nose were not communicating. Ten minutes in, I was not enjoying it at all. And to be clear, I've tried many sense where the fragrance evolves in a way that I don't like, or I like it on blotter but not on my skin, or I like it on somebody else, but not on me. This was not that. This fragrance didn't change. Only my opinion of it did. |
| 1:51.5 | I disliked it for the same reason that 10 minutes earlier I had been obsessed with it, which is weird |
| 1:57.2 | because like I said, I was obsessed with it. |
| 2:02.5 | Does this ever happen to you guys? |
| 2:05.5 | If so, why do you think that is? |
| 2:10.0 | Perhaps there's a more scientific explanation of sorts for this, which leads to more important things like today's guest and the topic of our episode. |
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