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Yes and no. A woman's fetility cycle is complicated. She walks 'sexy' during her least fertile time, which is initially counter intutitive. And women living in a house will synchronise their fertility and menstrual cycles, but this has more to do with the advantages of social animals having babies all at the time than scaring the crap out of their male flatmates.
Scent does play a huge role in male female attraction; the problem is that humans don't conciously realise it. There was a show on a couple of years back, showing a doctor sniffing nightshirts of women with varying genetic markers. He said, "It's actually much less unpleasant that you'd expect," and proceeded to arrange the shirts in order of least to most preference. And with not a single error, the order co-incided with his genetic match from worst to best.
Whether or not particular scent or pheromones comes into play during times of high fertility I don't know, but scent is definately important all the time, we just don't realise it.
Yes, I can smell my father when he is ill, but my ability to smell sickness is generally limited; it's usually just him, although there have been certain individuals that REEKED, both their breath and their body, while everyone else swore to me that they actually smelled fresh as a daisy. Bad diet seems to have some factor there; those individuals smelt even worse if they'd had too much takeaway during lunch.
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