This interesting article reports results from a Swedish study showing differences in attraction to scents by straights and gays. Here is the excerpt relevant to this discussion:
” In May researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced that gay men and straight women respond similarly to hormonal sex scents, and differently than straight men do. As for lesbians-well, it’s complicated and inconclusive.
Using brain imaging, the scientists studied responses to a testosterone derivative in men’s sweat, called AND, and an estrogen-related compound in women’s urine, called EST. They found that sniffs of EST activated the ordinary olfactory region in straight women and gay men but fired up the hypothalamus, a region of the brain connected to sexual behavior, in straight men. Meanwhile, AND activated straight men’s olfactory while firing up the hypothalamus in straight women and gay men.”
It seems then, del, that guys scents are “flavored” by their hormones as are women’s. I sos totally agree experientially. I love my honey’s smell!