History Main / LoveIsInTheAir

* [[Literature/TheIdhunsMemories ''Memorias de Idhún'']]: Wina, the [[FertilityGod life goddess']], manifestation [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm on the mortal world]] is essentially this, combined with [[RapidAging instant]] [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty maturity]] and [[ExpressDelivery accelerated pregnancy]].

* The US Army worked upon, but finally dropped, development of a weapon dubbed the [[FanNickname "Gay Bomb"]] - a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers [[HoYay fall for each other]]. The reasoning was that it would not only incapacitate them, but also embarrass them enough to lower their fighting potential afterwards. Apparently they never thought about what might happen if they turned out like the [[strike:Spartans]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes Sacred Band of Thebes]]...

* Franchise/{{Batman}} villainess Poison Ivy secretes potent {{Pheromones}} from her skin. In her first canonical appearance, it's enough (combined with her 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.

** ''[[ComicBook/NewMutants New X-Men]]'' featured Wallflower, a mutant girl who could cause people to experience any variety of emotions through {{pheromone|s}} release. She inherited her powers from her father, who had used them to seduce her mother. The father was also introduced in the series, but Wallflower was killed off before the subplot could go anywhere.
** ComicBook/{{Daken}}, long-lost son of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, has the ability to emit hyper-arousing pheromones. Combined with his inherited SuperSenses allowing him to detect receptiveness, and he's incredibly adept at seducing [[DepravedBisexual anyone]] he desires, which he exploits shamelessly.

** One of Marvel's {{squick}}ier examples is The Mandrill, a mutant who combines [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing the powers]] and [[HalfHumanHybrid appearance of a humanoid ape]] with the secretion of mutated sex {{pheromones}}, which infatuate women exposed to them to the extent that they will unthinkingly kill, steal and even ''die'' for him. To make things worse, the effect is actually addictive, and Mandrill is such a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain misogynistic scumbag]] that he gladly takes sexual advantage of his infatuated minions in addition to using them as disposable mooks.

* Cupid of ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' has been responsible for some unusual expressions of love, even among the Smurfs' enemies.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' used this trope in in the first volume of the manga.

* In Episode 15 of ''{{LightNovel/Inukami}}'', Keita obtained a "love" medicine that makes anyone he sees fall for him, but doesn't seem to work towards Yoko, his love interest.

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* There's a Literature/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.

* A variation was used in ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove''. The titular character and his friends ended up adding in animal {{pheronomes}} into Principal Jindrake's mouthspray, so whenever he ends up using it, Animals will end up either crawling over him, biting him in the leg, pouncing and jumping on him, and ''chase'' him, and was primarily done to humiliate him.

* ''LovePotionNo9'' starts with a basic LovePotion (although one that works continuously and can affect anyone with the right orientation that hears the imbiber's voice), but moves into this trope when a prostitute takes the concentrated version and empties a church just by clearing her throat.

* ''[[ComicBook/NewMutants New X-Men]]'' featured Wallflower, a mutant girl who could cause people to experience any variety of emotions through {{pheromone|s}} release. She inherited her powers from her father, who had used them to seduce her mother. The father was also introduced in the series, but Wallflower was killed off before the subplot could go anywhere.
* Recent Marvel villain Daken has this ability, and uses it CONSTANTLY. Considering he's a bad guy, that's not that surprising.
* Fellow Marvel baddie the Purple Man beat {{ComicBook/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).

* Yet another male example from Marvel is The Mandrill, a mutant who combines [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing the powers]] and [[HalfHumanHybrid appearance of a humanoid ape]] with the secretion of mutated sex {{pheromones}}, which infatuate women exposed to them to the extent that they will unthinkingly kill, steal and even ''die'' for him. To make things worse, the effect is actually addictive, and Mandrill is such a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain misogynistic scumbag]] that he gladly takes sexual advantage of his infatuated minions in addition to using them as disposable mooks.
* ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica Drew unconsciously exuded {{Pheremones}} that made men attracted to her while repelling women.

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* ''Series/YoungDracula'' in the second series; Vlad and Robin are wrestling over a bottle of the stuff and smash it, covering themselves with love potion... in the presence of a load of tween girls. {{Hilarity Ensues}}.

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

* Franchise/{{Batman}} villainess Poison Ivy secretes potent pheromones from her skin. In her first canonical appearance, it's enough (combined with her 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.
* ''[[ComicBook/NewMutants New X-Men]]'' featured Wallflower, a mutant girl who could cause people to experience any variety of emotions through pheromone release. She inherited her powers from her father, who had used them to seduce her mother. The father was also introduced in the series, but Wallflower was killed off before the subplot could go anywhere.

* Yet another male example from Marvel is The Mandrill, a mutant who combines [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing the powers]] and [[HalfHumanHybrid appearance of a humanoid ape]] with the secretion of mutated sex pheromones, which infatuate women exposed to them to the extent that they will unthinkingly kill, steal and even ''die'' for him. To make things worse, the effect is actually addictive, and Mandrill is such a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain misogynistic scumbag]] that he gladly takes sexual advantage of his infatuated minions in addition to using them as disposable mooks.
* ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica Drew unconsciously exuded pheremones that made men attracted to her while repelling women.

* In ''Fanfic/TheSwarmOfWar'', the entire royal family and the court are destroyed by [[spoiler:Alena’s pheromones. And perhaps her psyker power as well.]]

* A variation was used in ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove''. The titular character and his friends ended up adding in animal pheronomes into Principal Jindrake's mouthspray, so whenever he ends up using it, Animals will end up either crawling over him, biting him in the leg, pouncing and jumping on him, and ''chase'' him, and was primarily done to humiliate him.

* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Poison Ivy uses her pheromone love dust to get anyone who smells it to fall in love with her. She conceals it in a small leaf hidden in her palm and blows it into the face of her victims.

* ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' has a rather nightmarish 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...
* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse has at least two different alien species packing cross-species pheromones. Both of them seem to have weird effects on people, and questionable ideas as to what constitutes consent. Oh yeah, and one of the two species can bottle pheromones and produce a LovePotion for anyone who can pay. Surely such things are always used responsibly.

* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/GeorgeAndAzazel'' series, one of the stories is about a man whom the titular demon made emit a massive amount of pheromones. The girls are all so jealous of each other that he ends up forced to marry the strongest one.

** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Bride of Chaotica!", Captain Janeway is playing [[FemmeFatale Queen Arachnia]] in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton'' holoprogram, and tries using her vial of "irresistable pheromones" to make [[BigBad Dr Chaotica]] release her. Unfortunately Chaotica moves out of sniffing range, leaving her to get slobbered over by his [[NumberTwoForBrains ugly henchman Lonzak]] instead.

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

* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Batrean women]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'' give off pheromones that are just this side of mind control. Luckily, not only are most Batrean women nice people, but the pheromones can be countered by wearing nose plugs.

* Even ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Pokemon]]'' gets in on this with [[http://www.serebii.net/sunmoon/pokemon.shtml Salandit,]] a lizard whose females control males (any species) with pheromones.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', some of the TransformationRay variants (especially Ellen's Venus Beam) cause the target to produce super-pheromones, which makes them attractive to ''everybody'' regardless of gender and sexual orientation. [[spoiler: The effect wears off after about 48 hours. One result of this was that Nanase acknowledged her feelings for Ellen by rationalizing them to be a result of the latter's pheromones, then found out that there were no such things. (Dan Shive has explained that he originally intended for Ellen to be a recurring villain, and that the pheromones were meant to make her a super-seductress; when this was dismissed as being far too silly, they were adapted into a part of a ComingOutStory.)]]

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 LivingAphrodisiac, where a character emits Love Is In The Air naturally and {{Glamour}}, when this is caused by an alien or supernatural creature. Contrast HatePlague, which goes in the opposite emotional direction.

* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Azazel'' series, one of the stories is about a man whom the titular demon made emit a massive amount of pheromones. The girls are all so jealous of each other that he ends up forced to marry the strongest one.

** In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', while playing [[FemmeFatale Queen Arachnia]] in Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton holoprogram, Janeway uses her vial of "irresistable pheromones" to make [[BigBad Dr Chaotica]] release her. Unfortunately Chaotica moves out of sniffing range, leaving her to get slobbered over by his [[YouFool ugly henchman Lonzak]] instead.
** The odd [[MateOrDie Pon Farr]] episode tended to have this effect on whoever was suffering from the Vulcan affliction. "Blood Fever" from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' demonstrated further that Pon Farr could be transferred, as Vorik managed to set off B'elanna Torres' mating instincts, driving her to start pursuing her hidden interest in Tom Paris rather... aggressively.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Rick Potion #9", Rick creates a [[LovePotion love potion]] for Morty that causes those effected by it to become obsessively in love to the point of wanting to have sex with him then and there. The problem though is that the person he uses it on - his school-crush Jessica - had the flu. Because of this, the love potion becomes and airborne virus that affects everyone in the world, regardless of who they are, if they ever met Morty or what their sexual orientation. The only exception are those blood-related to Morty.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Rick Potion #9", Rick creates a [[LovePotion love potion]] for Morty that causes those effected by it to become obsessively in love to the point of wanting to have sex with him then and there. The problem though is that the person he uses it on - his school-crush Jessica - had the flu. Because of this, the love potion becomes and airborne virus that affects everyone in the world, regardless of who they are, if they ever met Morty or what their sexual orientation.

** In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Poison Ivy uses her pheromone love dust to get anyone who smells it to fall in love with her. She conceals it in a small leaf hidden in her palm and blows it into the face of her victims.

* Yet another male example from Marvel is The Mandrill, a mutant who combines [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing the powers and appearance of]] [[PettingZooPeople a humanoid ape]] with the secretion of mutated sex pheromones, which infatuate women exposed to them to the extent that they will unthinkingly kill, steal and even ''die'' for him. To make things worse, the effect is actually addictive, and Mandrill is such a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain misogynistic scumbag]] that he gladly takes sexual advantage of his infatuated minions in addition to using them as disposable mooks.

* The Love Potion Jimmy Neutron created on said series, ''JimmyNeutron''. Used not once, but twice.

* Yet another male example from Marvel is The Mandrill, a mutant who combines [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing the powers and appearance of]] [[PettingZooPeople a humanoid ape]] with the secretion of mutated sex pheromones, which infatuate women exposed to them to the extent that they will unthinkingly kill, steal and even ''die'' for him. To make things worse, the effect is actually addictive, and Mandrill is such a scumbag that he gladly takes sexual advantage of his infatuated minions in addition to using them as disposable mooks.
* Spider-Woman Jessica Drew unconsciously exuded pheremones that made men attracted to her while repelling women.

* ZigAndSharko: Zig falls victim to this in the episode "The Scent of The Hyena", caused by a deodorant that attracts everyone around him whenever he raises his arms.

* There was a chapter of ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' that featured Lala accidentally handing a LovePotion to everyone in her class. HilarityEnsues.
** Also Celine can cause this anytime she drinks coke. Spraying pollen in the air that seem to cause anyone to fall in love with Rito due to her own feelings for him.

* ''Manga/FrankenFran'' tries to make an actor more "charismatic" using pheromones in chapter 36, but her calculations are a little off and the situation gets out of control. Notably, she acknowledges that pheromones don't normally have much of an effect on people, but [[{{Handwave}} somehow makes it work anyway.]]
* In the first arc featuring Peorth in ''[[Manga/AhMyGoddess Oh My Goddess!]]'', she tries to convince Belldandy that she hasn't given Keiichi everything he wants by giving him a potion which causes every woman he locks eyes to fall in love with him, including his sister! The spell is broken when he makes eye contact with Belldandy herself.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} villainess Poison Ivy secretes potent pheromones from her skin. In her first canonical appearance, it's enough (combined with her 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.

* ''Fanfic/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.]]

* The ''StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse has at least two different alien species packing cross-species pheromones. Both of them seem to have weird effects on people, and questionable ideas as to what constitutes consent. Oh yeah, and one of the two species can bottle pheromones and produce a LovePotion for anyone who can pay. Surely such things are always used responsibly.

** The other species is the Zeltrons, a race of rosy-skinned near-human [[FreeLoveFuture hedonists]] with powerful pheromones. 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.]]

* ''Series/{{Young Dracula}}'' in the second series; Vlad and Robin are wrestling over a bottle of the stuff and smash it, covering themselves with love potion... in the presence of a load of tween girls. {{Hilarity Ensues}}.

-->'''Sexual Harassment Officer:''' I can't believe I did that.
-->'''Alison:''' It was horrifying.
-->'''[[MagnificentBastard Stark]]:''' I can imagine.
-->'''Carter:''' ''(behind a glass wall)'' ...[[ImStandingRightHere I can hear you]]!

* The ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' episode, "Where Walks Aphrodite" has the whole town under a love spell. Animals ''(Like Scooby Doo)'' are the only one's unaffected by it.

* ''RingWorld'' has a rather nightmarish 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...