If you are comparing pheromone products, you have probably noticed that most of them sound the same. Similar claims, similar language, similar promises about how people will react to you. The differences that actually matter are rarely the ones the marketing leads with.
We have been in this category for over twenty years. That is long enough to have seen most of the claims made in it, and long enough to be uncomfortable with a lot of them. So this guide is written the way we would want one written for us: what genuinely varies between products, what a label can and cannot tell you, and what to ask before you pay. We sell our own line and we carry a second, and we will point at both where it is relevant.
One thing worth setting straight, because it shapes everything below. Pheromones work alongside your own presence rather than instead of it. What a good one does is sit quietly in an interaction you were already having and make it a little easier. How much it does for you is something only wearing one will tell you, which is why the guarantee below runs sixty days and covers opened bottles.
Scented or unscented is the first real decision
This is the fork that matters most, and it is the one buyers most often get wrong.
Scented products are a finished fragrance with a pheromone compound blend built into them. One bottle, one application, nothing to layer. The trade is that you are committing to that scent. If you already have a cologne or perfume you like, a scented pheromone product replaces it rather than joining it.
Unscented products are designed to go underneath whatever you already wear. Your signature scent stays exactly as it is and the pheromone content rides along with it. The trade is that you are now managing two products, and you have to apply them in the right order and in sensible amounts.
Neither is stronger than the other by virtue of being scented or unscented. That is a common assumption and it is wrong. It is a question of whether you want the fragrance decision made for you.
A practical tell: if you cannot name the cologne you currently wear, buy scented. If you can name it and you like it, buy unscented.
What a label can tell you, and what it cannot
Here is where comparison shopping in this category gets difficult, and where we would rather be plain than clever.
Total milligram content is a real number, but it is not a ranking. Some products publish it and some do not. A higher figure on one label does not mean a stronger product than a lower figure on another, because two labels can be counting different compounds, in different bases, at different intended doses. Treat a published figure as a sign that the seller is willing to be specific. Do not treat it as a score.
A named compound list is worth more than a total. The compounds used in this category are a small and well documented set. A seller who lists which ones are in the bottle is telling you something checkable. A seller who offers only a total, or only an adjective like “maximum strength”, is not.
Concentration and volume are different questions. A larger bottle at a similar price is better value only if the per-application dose is comparable. Compare what a bottle costs against how long it lasts in normal use, not against its size on the shelf.
Be careful with the word “proprietary”. Sometimes it protects a genuine formulation. Often it is doing the work that a specific answer would otherwise have to do. It is fair to ask a seller directly what is in a bottle, and it is telling if you cannot get an answer.
What a fair price looks like
Single bottles in this category generally run between roughly forty and seventy dollars. Ours sit inside that range. That is not a bargain claim, it is simply where the category is.
What should make you cautious is either end of the extreme. A product priced far below the range is usually diluted, a smaller bottle than it looks, or a subscription with a low first payment. A product priced far above it is usually paying for packaging and advertising rather than for what is inside.
The number that actually matters is cost per month of normal use, and almost nobody publishes it, because it depends on how heavily you apply. Ask instead how many applications a bottle holds. If the seller does not know, that is an answer too.
The return policy is the part to read closely
The only way to know whether a product suits you is to wear it, so the return policy is not fine print. It is what makes trying one a low risk decision, and it is the first thing we would check on any seller in this category.
Read it for three things specifically.
How long you have. Whether a product suits you is not obvious in the first week. You need to wear it across a range of ordinary situations, at work, at dinner, on a night out, before you know. So the window that matters is one measured in weeks, not days. Ours is 60 days, counted from the day your order arrives.
Whether it covers opened product. This is the one to check hardest, because it is where a generous sounding promise most often turns out to be nothing. A guarantee that applies only to unopened bottles is not a guarantee, it is an exchange policy, and it cannot help you with the only question you actually have. Ours covers opened bottles, and says so on the guarantee page in those words. A used bottle is exactly what we expect back.
What it costs you to use it. Return shipping, restocking fees and processing fees are all normal, and they are all worth knowing in advance rather than discovering at the point of return. Ours are stated in full further down this page.
Who you are buying from matters more here than in most categories
This is a category with a lot of short-lived sellers. Sites appear, run advertising for a year or two, and disappear, which is a problem when your guarantee depends on the seller still existing when you want to use it.
Two things are checkable from outside, and we would suggest checking them on anyone you are considering, including us.
How long they have actually been in business. Not when the current website was built, which is easy to reset, but how long the company has been selling.
Whether you can see the unfiltered version. A short row of one-line raves is easy to assemble and tells you very little. What is worth reading is feedback on a marketplace, where the seller cannot edit it and it builds up year after year, and customer notes published in full rather than trimmed down to the flattering sentence.
For our part, both are there to check. We have been selling on eBay since 2006, and that storefront now carries more than 1,400 buyer ratings at 98% positive, on a record we do not control and cannot edit. More than 100 customers have sent us notes we never asked for, and we publish them in full, exactly as they were written, on our Success Stories page. Both are linked below.
What we sell
We make our own line and we carry a second one. The honest summary of the difference is that the products we make are the ones we can tell you the most about, and the ones we carry are there because they fill gaps our own line does not.
Everything comes in a scented and an unscented route, for men and for women, plus one unisex option that a lot of people buy for work and daytime rather than for going out.
Scented, unscented, and one for daytime
Every one of these is covered by the same 60-day guarantee, opened bottles included.
Our guarantee, stated in full
- 60 days, counted from the day your order arrives.
- Opened bottles are covered. You cannot know whether a pheromone product works for you without wearing it, so a used bottle is exactly what we expect back.
- Full refund of the product price. U.S. shipping is free, so on a standard U.S. order that is everything you paid. If you chose FedEx or international shipping, that shipping charge is not refunded.
- Return shipping is yours. We don’t provide return labels.
- Orders of $180.00 or more, before any discount, are assessed a 25% return processing fee.
That is the whole policy, including the parts that cost you something. We would rather put it here than three clicks away. The full guarantee page has the rest of the detail.
Still not sure
If you have read this far and still cannot decide, the shortest path is the collection page for your side of the catalog, where the products are laid out with the same comparison in mind. If you want the background first, our explainer covers how pheromones work, what the research does and does not support, and how to wear them.