Sexual attraction is part of our daily life. We see people around us who are attractive to us, the girl who makes you coffee every day or the guy who runs a workout program at the gym. There are so many different qualities that make up sexual attraction between humans. A person's personality, their appearance, their behavior and, surprisingly, their smell, are part of the human way of judging who we want to mate with. Our bodies let others know whether we are a good match or not without us saying a word or even realizing what is happening. In recent years there has been an increase in research on smell and its role in sexual attraction. The whole role of smells and pheromones is increasingly becoming part of human sexual attraction. The possibility that our scent signals to the opposite sex that we are a good match, even when it comes to chemicals, is pretty amazing. Researchers are finding more and more evidence about how smells influence their attraction to someone of the opposite sex. This is a look at the context of the research, the research itself, and the findings. A person's smell does not always drive away the opposite sex; in fact the smell might bring them straight to you. In a study conducted in 2008, a group of researchers wanted to see how much odor affects women and their judgment of men's beauty. In a study of forty-four women rating the sweat odor of a t-shirt along with a photo of the man, the women were asked to rate attractiveness based on the smell of the t-shirt and/or the photo of the man. They tested each stimulus separately at one point, and then during the second half of the study they combined the two by placing a photo of the man paired with his shirt and... in the center of the paper... testing things but it's restorative of the research done before and after it. She raised the point about women's menstrual cycles and how they have a role to play in the world of pheromones. Works Cited1) Foster, J.D. (2008). Beauty is primarily in the eye of the beholder: olfactory and visual signals of attractiveness. Journal of Social Psychology, 148(6), 765-774. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.2) Roberts, S.A., Simpson, D.M., Armstrong, S.D., Davidson, A.J., Robertson, D.H., McLean, L., and ... Hurst, J.L. (2010). Darcin: a male pheromone that stimulates female memory and sexual attraction to the smell of a male individual. BMC Biology, 875-95. doi:10.1186/1741-7007-8-753) Grammer, K., Fink, B., & Neave, N. (2005). Human pheromones and sexual attraction. European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 118(2), 135-142. doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2004.08.010