The North American Luna Moth male can detect the female pheromones from over a mile away, but we are not moths. In fact, I don't believe that I am aware of any primates where scent is used to find females. I know lemurs scent mark, but not quite the same thing. Sight and sound are the methods of the higher primates. I think the logic may be something like this, "Perhaps the bad smell of the BF contains some pheromone that is used to attract females." Fine, if you wish to make a leap of logic, I guess I would be OK with the idea if BF pheromones were available. No, don't seem to have any more of the BF pheromones in stock, maybe you would like to purchase some human or ape pheromones mixed together at a substantial discount. Quite another leap of logic. I think it would make more sense to use extract of banana oil.
It is true that there is some evidence of a pheromone in humans. Women who stay together start to menstrate at the same time. Does anybody know what that pheromone smells like. I think there may be some chemicals that are shared between men and women in close intimate contact that may have an effect on the brain. Again, could anybody tell me what they smell like. We are asked to believe that we would be walking through the woods at night minding our own business and we would be unable to resist that smell of APE and HUMAN BO. I don't think this one passes the smell test.

This doesn't have anything to do with bigfoot, but I found it rather interesting. I watched this show on PBS a couple of years ago where they were discussing pheromones and human sexuality. They were talking about a study in which they found women were significantly more attracted to men with dissimilar genetic makeups from themselves ("opposites attract") and unattracted to men with similar genetic makeups ("likes repel"). They theorized that women often subconsiously select and/or reject a man by his scent (pheromones). They went on to say that pheromones thereby possibly help a woman to select a suitable mate in which any future children produced by the union will be born healthy and free of genetic disease.

I saw the same show A34, also read not long ago a study that states that humans and primates do use pheromones. To what extent is still not certain. As far as "what they smell like?" I think that pheromones are odorless,or have an undetectable odor, but chemically stimulate us. Heck, we don't smell Oxygen(unless your in Atlanta or La) and I believe we all are stimulated by it.

BobZenor - i totally agree with you in the sense that i'm pretty skeptical about the use of phermones in attracting BF, judging by their effectiveness in attracting humans (seems a bit sketchy), and the unavailability of actual BF phermones.
Then again, i know little about this subject, so i should probably shut up before my foot gets too firmly lodged in my mouth.

-robin