Athena Pheromone
The Athena Pheromone, otherwise known as the Athena Pheromone 10X for Men, has been the subject of so many mixed reviews and misconceptions over the years that I could not resist putting it to the test myself. Having concluded my testing on the Athena Pheromone, it now finds it’s proper home here, on the wall of shame.
Before I get into the field test results, lets talk a little bit about what the Athena Pheromone actually is. Athena Pheromone 10X is purportedly a pheromone additive designed to be added to ones normal favorite cologne, not directly applied to the person in it’s pure form.
The Athena Pheromone 10X comes with a rather small bottle of this ‘pheromone concentrate,’ and is quite easily mixed and added into nearly any normal cologne, the purpose being to “super charge” the normal cologne and thus turn it into a pheromone cologne. I must admit that I was not thrilled about the prospect of spending a mere $99.50 on this Athena Pheromone additive, but curiosity simply got the best of me on this one. Keep in mind, the Athena Pheromone has been around for quite sometime, hitting the market back around the mid to late 1990′s, but yet information regarding it’s performance is hard to find for some odd reason.
What is in the Athena Pheromone? The truth be told we really have no idea what is inside the Athena Pheromone 10X for Men, the pheromone compounds and proportions are a tightly guarded secret of Athena, we must simply take their word for it that it does contain actual human pheromones, as these folks are more tight lipped about the ingredients than most other pheromone companies out there.
Anyhow, after taking receipt of my nice new bottle of Athena Pheromone additive, I opted to mix it in with one of may favorite colognes, the Eternity for Men, just a personal preference, to each there own. I mixed and blended the Athena Pheromone per their instructions, and then prepared to put it through my now semi standard initial 1 week field testing cycle.
I began my field testing of Athena on a Monday morning, work! I walked in as normal after generously applying my Athena Pheromone spiked Eternity for Men, and prepared to observe whatever reactions would be forthcoming…Lets now skip ahead to Thursday of the same week, I am still going to work waiting to observe whatever reactions may come…Still nothing? Well, now I’m getting a little concerned, rarely have I used a pheromone cologne for 4 straight days and not seen even one single reaction, not a good one, or even a bad reaction! I just wanted to observe something!
I got home Thursday night after 4 days of failed field tests and did some additional research on this so called Athena Pheromone, wanting to make sure I didn’t do “something” wrong? Scattered around the web I did find some curt comments concerning the Athena Pheromone from other users posted here and there years ago, such as;
“I got sucked in. This was one of the first pheromones I ever tried. I bought all the hype and really wanted it to work. A little later I discovered APC. It was a miracle compared to Athena 10X, and it’s considered little more than a cologne on this site. When I realized the product was a scam I tried to get my money back and got a big run-around instead.”
Needless to say I was a tad bit discouraged after finding that piece of information, but I still had 3 more days of field testing left so I decided to push on, even after reading the comments of another previous Athena Pheromone user who suggested;
“The Athena insert says “Some men report observing its effects after three days while others report results after 4-6 weeks of use. ” Like I said before, maybe my age had somehting to do with it ‘s taking four weeks to show effects…”
Now I’m not too optimistic, I’m thinking I’ve already been testing this stuff for 4 days and have seen no results, but now Athena claims some guys see no results for 4-6 weeks! Damn, I should have read the insert first! My second thought was of course, “how could that even be?” A true pheromone cologne or additive that takes 4-6 weeks to actually kick in? I’ve personally seen the Scent of Eros for Men kick in within about 4-6 seconds, and I’ve seen other pheromone colognes easily take between 10-15 minutes before they induced blatantly obvious and in some cases embarrassing responses from women, but my God, 4-6 weeks! How is that even possible?
That’s not a rhetorical question folks, if someone can please explain to me how a “real” pheromone cologne can take 4-6 weeks of continued use before one sees results, please leave a comment, I’d LIKE TO KNOW MYSELF!
And then last but not least I read one gentleman’s comment regarding the Athena Pheromone that really made my heart drop when he quipped;
“I used Athena for about 4 months and then just threw the bottle away. Didn’t do a thing for me.”
Yes, well right about this time I’m basically kissing the $99.50 good bye, but I decided to at least continue the last three days of field testing with the Athena Pheromone.
Of course, with my luck what do I have to report, the same as the first 4 days of testing, Friday at work yielded no responses, with the same finding while out socially on Friday and Saturday night, just plain nothing?
At this point, I simply threw the stuff away…Done!
Folks, if I am personally going to spend $99.50 for a pheromone cologne, or pheromone additive, no one better dare tell me that I must wait 4-6 weeks or 4-6 months before I start seeing any pheromonal induced results from the opposite sex! I see no point in wasting time with a pheromone product that performs this weakly, not when others can do in seconds what the Athena Pheromone apparently can’t do in a full week!
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Kyle: It might be helpful to the visitors to your site if you would point out the difference between anecdotal “evidence” of effectiveness and published studies that were double blind and placebo controlled. Similarly, if I give a speech on a street corner claiming Athena Pheromones work that doesn’t give me the credibility that Dr. Cutler deserves when the American College of Ob/Gyns invites her to give a 90 lecture on “Pheromones as Sex Attractants” for Continuing Medical Education credits to the physicians who hear her talk…in Philadelphia at ACOG’s annual convention in 1999. I am “biassed” since I am Athena’s VP Gen. Counsel. But ACOG was not biassed in favor of Dr. Cutler; they were impressed with her credentials.
Thomas E. Quay, Esq.
Reply to CLAIRE: Our product for women is ATHENA PHEROMONE 10:13™ sold since 1993 and proven effective for 74% of college-age women in a double blind study by Dr. Norma McCoy and 68% of menopausal women in a double blind study by Dr. Susan Rako and Dr. Joan Friebely of Harvard. Both studies were published in peer reviewed scientific journals. That is the Gold Standard. Dr. Cutler in 1999 presented a lecture, PHEROMONES AS SEX ATTRACTANTS, to the annual meeting of ob/gyns for Continuing Medical Education credits. We also GIVE OUT research grants. Claire, you should visit our website: http://www.athenainstitute.com
Tom Quay, Vice President, Athena Institute
Its funny out of all of the pheromone companies I looked up Athena was the only one in the Better Business Bureau that I saw that got an A+. If it really was a scam someone should send in a complaint. Pherlure AKA ANR Got an F rating.
A nice piece on the BBB…I was not aware one had to pay to be a member?
the only pheromone cologne that it worked for me it was the first realm colognes that came out many years ago i tried some from adam and eve and the one called adam cologne and the one that came on a clear glass that you can roll on your body those are the ones that make girls come to me smile to me some said that i smell nice some female friends end up on my bed naked and happy
Oh, and by the way, the “studies” (3) they are referring to were conducted solely on women, and also dealt with menstruation. They target a different product to men because they are the bulk of the buying power of pheromones, and then try to back it up by referring to a study done on women…
Okay, so here is the deal… This review honestly put me more at ease as to the subject of whether pheromones actually work or not.
Here’s why:
The Athena ad is what got me interested in researching and thus buying pheromones. However, everything I ever read about it said it was simply AWFUL. The most convincing, evidence proofed article I ever found (before coming here) regarded both personal and semi-scientific testing of pheromones by a guy who was simply scientific minded and curious about pheromones, much like myself! His testing consisted solely of using Athena and some other minor ones that people on this site don’t seem too fond of, either.
His results with Athena: to put it simply, it was a MAJOR DUD. So, mister vice president of Athena, I think it goes to show that if a large number of people, who are both major pheromone testers AND people with no knowledge of the world of pheromones at all, as well as everyone in between, have gone out and posted or published articles concerning ONE pheromone product and ONLY ONE – YOURS! – concluding that it didn’t work AT ALL, I’d think that it simply didn’t work for them, which would mean that it doesn’t work for a lot more people than you obviously think it does.
In fact, in the research I HAVE done so far (quite extensive for the amount of time it was conducted in), which was originally concentrated mostly on your product only, I NEVER found any positive reviews, comments, or statements, EXCEPT for those posted by your own company, and in your own ads. It’s pretty weak when the only positive results that can be found on a search through google come from your own marketing department.
Regarding the “scientific” research done by your company: that’s just it, it was done by your OWN company. I could go “research” my own piss and say it came out as liquid gold, and turn around and publish it. I’m the only one doing research in the subject, so no other ‘specialists’ exist who could contradict me, nor would there be any contradicting evidence. The only true evidence and studies that could tell us of the true potency or efficacy of a pheromone product shouldn’t really come from the company that makes it, who has total control of the results and ALL the variables of the research, and who also solely composes the evidence for being published. There is a reason no one ever REALLY accepts research done internally by companies in the REAL world of science. There is a reason the FDA tests drugs on their own, through unbiased companies contracted through government funds; they don’t just let the pharmaceutical companies “test” the drug on their own and just accept it immediately. They might take the pharm, company’s own evidence into consideration now and then, but they don’t take that as SOLE WORD of the drugs effectiveness or safety. Also, the bulk of the research isn’t done by one person (your CEO in your case), or by a limited number of people; they do the research through many people, and many times over, through scheduled steps that are well thought out and regulated…..your published research is referring to something different entirely, you are referring to a scholarly publishing, not a legal, government, or federal publishing.. For instance, I have published 2 research projects myself and I am a JUNIOR in college. Those reports could have had anything in them, too.. I did good work in order to be able to put it down in a resume and in order to get more research grants in the future, but you wouldn’t necessarily have to: you could publish one bad paper on research that no one else knows anything about once, and then use that as a slogan forever, unable to publish any more research now that everyone knows it’s a joke….. You know, sort of how you hide behind that one publishing of research you did over 10 years ago?
You may be able to deceive many other people through sleazy marketing and your tiny little ads in the back of Popular Science (which are right next to the “Buy Your Own Flying Bicycle!!” ads), but you can’t keep people from telling the truth online about how much of a scam your product is. The truth is, Athena may work, just a tiny bit, which may have been the best there ever was back in 1998-2000 or earlier, but there are many other better companies who put more money into furthering their product and testing to make it better, in order to beat the competition out. However the Athena is still just as good as it was when it first came out, and everyone else has advanced 10 years better than you, so you scramble to keep a market by bragging out your 10+ year old published research and jacking up your price. In comparison, Athena is like the outdated brick phone of pheromone products today.
You can only trick people into paying twice the market average for the weakest product in that market for so long. Your research will eventually become so outdated that no one will care, even if it was legitimate back when it was published, and you won’t be able to use it as a desperate slogan when people can buy something hundreds of times more potent (which they DON’T have to dilute in cologne) that is HALF the price. Maybe instead of crying about your decade old research that YOU made up, you should just put in the time to make your product better, and keep up with the competition.
No response necessary, this speaks for itself: what is known as The Truth.
Folks;
If you peruse our website, and see the 3 double blind studies proving efficacy, published in peer reviewed scientific journals, and still think we are a fraud, then maybe you cannot spell SCIENCE. To quote our slogan: Athena Pheromones: the Gold Standard since 1993. Our honest advertising states: works for 74%, but not for everybody.
–(Admittedly biassed) Tom Quay, Athena Instititute’s Vice President. 11/26/10
what about the reviews for Athena for woman . Back in 1998 I brought Athena for women and IT DID NOT WORK!!! that was a total waste of money. I worn it for the full 4 weeks and NOTHING!! I had better luck with intamate research products.
Thanks for your comment Claire,
well then I suppose there is no hurry to get Athena for Women tested….I believe you!
I was taking a women’s lit class for two semesters at school. I thought it would be like shooting fish in a barrel if I had the athena pheromone on and surrounded by all these women, they would be eating out of my hands. There were 40 people in the class, one straight guy — myself, and one openly out of the closet gay man. This crap did not work at all. I thought it was me and actually bought a second bottle. What a BIG, BIG, WASTE of money. For the record, I am 6’2, athletic body, and have done fairly well with women. I was just trying the product because I wanted to do as less work as possible in getting dates. Believe me, I could not have been more wrong and disappointed in this piece of crap. It is a fraud.
Thanks for your comment Jim,
Don’t think I can really add much to your/our assessment on this one, it is what it is.