That's a bit of a non sequitur.
The synthetic feline hormone is not something humans can sense. Cats supposedly can, but I'm not convinced.
Our sense of smell evokes memories of our unique individual experiences. There is no known universally calming smell for humans. The same is most probably true for cats and most, if not all our other animal cousins.
Your cat probably likes its own cat-stink a lot more than the expensive odourless magic water from the pet shop. The pet shop has yet to find a way to sell you your own cats body odour in cartridge form but it would if it could.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 5 May 2023, 22:19,
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I didn't watch, and I didn't say hormones either.
Nor do I have a cat. Pretty sure it's actually a pheromone, which apparently works really well according to my cat-owning friend. I'm told that the Feliway plugs give off something called "feline appeasing pheromone".
If humans can make musk, it's not too much of a stretch (to me) that there's a chemical that makes people feel a little less stressed. I mean, pheromones would hardly work if they were specific to the individual would they? Lavender is the common one, though it might well be a placebo. Hard to test that.
I defer to FCM.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 6 May 2023, 0:28,
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Oh yeah I meant pheromone rather than hormone, soz.
It is not proven that adult humans have adequate pheromone receptors. There's some info on the human vomeronasal organ debate here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050168/
Feliway is the very expensive magic water cartridge I'm talking about. There's a summary of Feliway research studies here: whatyourcatwants.com/feliway
There are chemicals (drugs, medicines) that make humans less stressed, but these chemicals are not pheromones that we can (or probably can't even) smell, and smell is not the direct medium by which these chemicals affect the brain. These chemicals also have fairly unique/non-uniform effects on individuals.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 6 May 2023, 20:18,
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