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Think about the perfume industry, billions of dollars spent every year by men and women trying to enhance their natu- ral pheromone output, the use of smell in the attraction pro- cess. Humans are after all only a slightly civilized animal. Ani- mals us scents to mark territory, ownership of mating part- ners and the like, why then as humans do we think we don’t use pheromones to attract a partner? The fragrance industry spends millions every year creating and tailoring different perfumes for different people, flow- ery scents, musky scents, you name it and there will be a perfume designed for you. One last thing to consider in the linking of memories and scents, do you remember the first time someone gave you a rose? Does the smell of that flower still trigger the same in- tense memory? For the men out there who may never been lucky enough to have been given a rose, consider the smell of the sea, what does the smell of salt air trigger in you now?