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  • noun organic chemistry A steroid alcohol with a musk-like odour; it is found in human sweat and also in truffles

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Examples

  • For this reason, perfume manufacturers can now use alpha androstenol, which is a sex-attractant pheromone from pigs that is also present in human underarm sweat.

    How to Speak Dog Stanley Coren 2000

  • While widely regarded as "rabbit food," eating celery supposedly causes your sweat glands to release the pheromone androstenol, which is often used in sprays and colognes as an aphrodisiac to attract women.

    FOXNews.com 2011

  • Psychological effects of musky compounds: comparison of androstadienone with androstenol and muscone.

    More Parts of the Puzzle Zoe Brain 2008

  • In experiments run by researchers from the University of Ulster and University of Vienna, male and female subjects wore masks sprayed with either androstenol -- a pheromone in men's underarm sweat -- or a "control solvent."

    Boing Boing: June 19, 2005 - June 25, 2005 Archives 2005

  • The first group wore a mask sprayed with androstenol and the second wore a mask permeated with a control solvent.

    Male Sweat Sells Men’s Magazines | Impact Lab 2005

  • In this kind of research, men are given a whiff of alpha androstenol, which usually goes completely unnoticed at the conscious level.

    How to Speak Dog Stanley Coren 2000

  • The tailoring by the eld skyle of his alpha androstenol did not appeal to Caitlin.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • And to complete my birthing of you as a man, I've modified your sex hormone, alpha androstenol, to attract a woman I know of among the Foke.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • She didn't know that Carl's alpha androstenol, which the Ad skyle had fitted for Evoe, approximated the sex-cueing hormonal receptors deep in her own limbic brain.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • It isn't the cheapest diet additive, but according to researchers, truffles contain androstenone and androstenol, like celery.

    FOXNews.com 2011

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