From love apple to skin bouquet... and if it also exhaled phaeromones?;De la pomme d'amour au bouquet de la peau humaine... et si elle exhalait aussi des phéromones?

Revue Medicale de Liege

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 946-948

  Xhauflaire Uhoda, E ^a   Pierard Franchimont C ^a   Pierard G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Odour; Perfume; Phaeromone

Indexed keywords

PERFUME; PHEROMONE;

REVIEW; SKIN ODOR; SWEAT GLAND;

HUMANS; ODORS; PHEROMONES; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 29944437427     PISSN: 00353663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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