History Main / LoveIsInTheAir

-->--'''John Paul Young, "Love is In the Air"'''

* The Anime Addventure features a {{hentai}} story thread where an actual [[TheVirus infection]] called the {{Lemon}} Flu infected the globe. Its effects include gifting [[GagPenis men]] and [[BreastExpansion women]] with perfect [[EstrogenBrigadeBait bodies]], and behaving like an [[LovePotion aphrodisiac]].

* A PhilFoglio comic that ''does'' play this trope straight is ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'', in which [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold brothel-madam-porn-superstar]] [[AnythingThatMoves Louisa Dem Five]] has apparently had a procedure done enabling her to produce massive amounts of pheromones on cue. To the point of being able to charm both Buck, who is of a genetically-altered {{Heavyworlder}} subspecies and explicitly shouldn't be capable of finding low-grav women attractive, and a cyborg space pirate, who is mostly machine and shouldn't be finding her attractive. [[spoiler: This becomes a plot point; she can't turn on anyone else on the Gallimaufrey, leading to the discovery of a motivation-sapping bioengineered virus on the station...]]

* Fellow Marvel baddie the Purple Man beat {{Daken}} to the punch by about thirty years. And for extra-special-squick, he used it to father at least one daughter with a mind-controlled ladyfriend. That daughter, known as the Purple Girl, inherited the power, and used it to mind control Northstar in her first appearance (though unlike her father, she didn't take it past going swimming together).

* ''NobodyDies'' has this as the effect of Lilith's Anti-AT Field: any men and women caught in it immediately feel compelled to make '''babies'''. It takes extreme willpower to resist (although repeated application of cold water can help). Family members are exempt from this, fortunately. HilarityEnsues when Shinji [[spoiler:accidentally starts projecting the same Field at his school.]]

* Heartbreaker from ''{{Dino-Boy}}'' uses this as her weapon du jour, brainwashing men into doing her bidding (which includes stealing, opening bank vaults for her, you get the picture). It works on the titular hero too, but this is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because he is [[HalfHumanHybrid part-human]].

Has a friend in SmellsSexy; and the role of sex pheromones, the purpose of which (in RealLife, that is) is to communicate one's biological availability to other members of the same species (and only that species), primarily useful if you only go into heat for a few days per year and don't know whether you'll survive the other 364 days to get another chance later. Compare {{Glamour}}, where a character emits Love Is In The Air naturally and LivingAphrodisiac, when this is caused by an alien or supernatural creature. Contrast HatePlague, which goes in the opposite emotional direction.

* Toby from WickedScience creates superpheromones in an episode aptly named "Love Potion Number 9".

Has a friend in SmellsSexy; and the role of sex pheremones, the purpose of which (in RealLife, that is) is to communicate one's biological availability to other members of the same species (and only that species), primarily useful if you only go into heat for a few days per year and don't know whether you'll survive the other 364 days to get another chance later. Compare {{Glamour}}, where a character emits Love Is In The Air naturally and LivingAphrodisiac, when this is caused by an alien or supernatural creature. Contrast HatePlague, which goes in the opposite emotional direction.

* ''FrankenFran'' tries to make an actor more "charismatic" using pheremones in chapter 36, but her calculations are a little off and the situation gets out of control. Notably, she acknowledges that pheremones don't normally have much of an effect on people, but [[{{Handwave}} somehow makes it work anyway.]]

** The other species is the Zeltrons, a race of rosy-skinned near-human [[FreeLoveFuture hedonists]] with powerful pheremones. However, they also have strong receptive empathy, so it really is in their best interest to make sure everyone around them is truly happy and consenting. [[spoiler: That said, I do recall reading of a sadistic Dark Side Zeltron somewhere.]]

* A PhilFoglio comic that ''does'' play this trope straight is ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'', in which [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold brothel-madam-porn-superstar]] [[AnythingThatMoves Louisa Dem Five]] has apparently had a procedure done enabling her to produce massive amounts of pheremones on cue. To the point of being able to charm both Buck, who is of a genetically-altered {{Heavyworlder}} subspecies and explicitly shouldn't be capable of finding low-grav women attractive, and a cyborg space pirate, who is mostly machine and shouldn't be finding her attractive. [[spoiler: This becomes a plot point; she can't turn on anyone else on the Gallimaufrey, leading to the discovery of a motivation-sapping bioengineered virus on the station...]]

* Henry Sackerman's novel ''TheLoveBomb'' fits in here better than anywhere else: A {{Human Alien|s}} from a peaceful and uninhibited planet lands on earth, and is mystified and chagrined with how violent and prudish the natives are. So, after many misadventures, he ends up getting his buddy to drop a chemical weapon which neutralizes people's hostilities and inhibitions. (For example, two juvenile delinquents are fighting on account of one of them having slept with the other's sister. They destroy their knives, talk the situation over like civilized young men, and [[AirHugging Air Hug]]. A man who despises his wife for a mean old cow—and is despised by her in turn for a pathetic slacker—buys her roses before he comes home, convinced that the gesture will be lost on her. He finds her cooking his favorite dish and looking dewy-eyed. And so on.) In many cases, it acts as an aphrodisiac.

* In [[http://www.cookingschoolnews.com/?cid=PBF168-Cupid_Mistake.jpg this]] ''{{Perry Bible Fellowship}}'' comic, Cupid stores his arrows improperly and accidentally sets them on fire, resulting in the acid rain from the love smoke washing the love potion all over a city. The result: massive orgy in the streets.

* In episode 2 of ''Manga/ToAruKagakuNoRailgun'', Kuroko tried ways to get Misaka to drink a love potion she ordered via delivery, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5QD3smwWns ended up drinking the potion herself by mistake]].

Has a friend in SmellsSexy; and the role of sex pheremones, the purpose of which (in RealLife, that is) is to communicate one's biological availability to other members of the same species (and only that species), primarily useful if you only go into heat for a few days per year and don't know whether you'll survive the other 364 days to get another chance later. Compare {{Glamour}}, where a character emits Love Is In The Air naturally and LivingAphrodisiac, when this is caused by an alien or supernatural creature.

* In ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'', [[http://dragondoctors.dhscomix.com/archives/comic/ch-2-page-24 the Capricious Spirit of Love suggests this was an effect of the Spell Gun]] -- although context suggests this was a lie.

** In another episode, a guy has a magic jacket that makes any girl who sees him wearing it fall madly in love with him, making Xander [[ContinuityNod fondly remember]] his own adventure years before. Made even more amusing because by this point, Willow has come out as a lesbian, and ''[[IncompatibleOrientation still]]'' [[IncompatibleOrientation falls for the guy]].

* ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' villain Hathor does this, though she uses it (and in show, it's treated as) MindControl.

* {{Batman}} villainess Poison Ivy secretes potent pheromones from her skin. In her first canonical appearance, it's enough (combined with her [[FetishFuel generally desirable appearance]]) to make a man leave his wife on the spot to accept a hallucinatory kiss from her. Batman himself is affected, and later on in the Batcave he won't stop talking about how beautiful and sexy Ivy is. Until Alfred turns the water in his shower freezing cold.

* Fellow Marvel baddie the Purple Man beat {{Daken}} to the punch by about thirty years. And for extra-special-squick, he used it to father at least one daughter with a mind-controlled ladyfriend. That daughter, known as the Purple Girl, inherited the power, and used it to mind control Northstar in her first appearance. (The worst part? The editorial slant on the subject was: Purple Man uses the power for this purpose, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil he's a monster]]. Purple Girl uses it for the same purpose, [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale she gets invited to join a superhero team]].)

* There's a HarryPotter fanfiction out there somewhere that's based on the premise that ''Love Potion Number Nine'' (described below) is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, one that [[TheMasquerade the Ministry of Magic]] couldn't quite cover up. And then Neville [[EpicFail accidentally mixes it in Potions class]], and it turns out that if anything, the film ''understated'' just how powerful the stuff is. HilarityEnsues.

* ''RingWorld'' has a rather NightmareFuel-ish example in the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Ringworld Vampires]], a species of non-sentient hominids which use pheromones to draw in other hominids so that they can feed off of them. This gets [[{{Squick}} even more disturbing]] when it is revealed that they would have been destroyed long ago, except that every time there was a serious push to eradicate them, some City Builder with more lust than sense would keep a secret enclave of de-fanged vampires as sex toys, or in order to make perfume from their pheromones, and sooner or later a breeding pair would escape into the wild...

When LoveIsInTheAir, you may see a decentralized "Love Flu" that makes everyone who comes in contact experience a rebirth of the sixties and free love. The other possibility is it acts as an amped up airborne LovePotion, making anyone of the opposite gender fall in love and sometimes those of the same enter a murderous jealous rage (or unexplainable attraction).

* In ''TheTenthKingdom'', the magic love town of Kissing Town makes this trope quite literal, since not only are there magical hearts floating everywhere around every happy couple getting married, but every time Virginia seems ready to dismiss Wolf as a love interest, in swoop the hearts to change her mind and turn her into a hopeless romantic. They even form a gigantic heart over the pair's heads when they share their first kiss.

* The CirqueDuSoleil WidgetSeries ''Solstrom'', in which magical sun creatures wreak mischief in different places on Earth, uses a variation on this concept as the premise for the episode "Wind of Romance". The "solar wind" blown about an Italian village has ''mostly'' positive effects, from bringing a bickering couple back together to bringing a painted poster of Columbine to life for a lonely fellow.

* On ''{{Darkover}}'', the ''kireseth'' pollen laden Ghost Winds have this effect. Another of the many effects is temporary amnesia, which can result in paternities being in doubt.