Who we are

A314.com and PheromoneLabs.com are sister sites. A314.com is our men’s store for trust and respect, and the home of A314 and the Akuto scent. PheromoneLabs.com carries our experimental putative pheromones and MX mixtures. Both belong to the company that was called Androtics (Androtics Chemosensory Research) until 2022, the lab that made the first social pheromone blend, Come Talk To Me, in 2000. Since late 2022 the company has been owned by Greg Thompson, a longtime Androtics customer and a friend of its founder, and everything since then has gone through him. PheromoneTalk.com, the Androtics community forum that went dark in 2018, reopened under the same ownership in October 2026.

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Where it started

Most pheromone brands sell one thing, and you already know what it is.

Androtics started somewhere else. In 2000 it created Come Talk To Me, the first pheromone blend made for everyday social situations: getting a conversation going, putting people at ease, making a room friendlier. The thinking was that people send each other far more signals than “I’m attracted to you,” and that a lot of the good stuff in life happens in the rest of them. Comfort. Trust. Rapport. Respect.

That idea grew into a whole catalog. Androtics products were selling through other shops by 2002 and 2003. The A314 name arrived in 2003, on the trust and respect formula that became the flagship. The Instant line followed in 2004 (Instant Shine, Instant Honesty and the rest), built so the formulas could be layered, with Androtics Neroli created as its house scent. In 2005 the company opened its own store, Androtics Direct, and its forum, PheromoneTalk.

PheromoneTalk became the engine room. At its peak it had more than 42,000 members and over half a million posts, and in 2009 alone members wrote more than 100,000 of them. New formulas were tested out loud, in public, by the people wearing them, and many experimental mixes (the MX numbers) went through the community before they became regular products. The customers from those years are the people we still call Early Adopters.

For a long stretch, Androtics was the Apple of pheromones: the company that built the things everyone else copied.

How Greg came in

In 2006, Greg was attending a seminar in Las Vegas and met the man behind Androtics, who was there too. They hit it off. Greg became a customer, and then a friend.

They kept in touch over the years, catching up every so often. Then Greg noticed his old friend was in trouble. The founder’s health had taken a hard turn, and the company made decisions that were bad for the business and worse for customers. In November 2018 the last post went up on PheromoneTalk, and the forum went dark. From there, things slid fast.

In December 2021, A314.com opened, at first only to former Androtics customers and independent researchers who were still asking for the formulas. Slowly, things started to build back up.

Greg offered to help. In the spring of 2022 he handled the move of filling and shipping to Chicago, still as a helper. By late 2022 he had taken over the company completely, and the Androtics name was retired at the end of that year.

What’s back

If you ordered from us in 2022 or 2023, you remember what that period looked like. The labels were rough. Customer service was hit or miss. Some favorite formulas had gone missing altogether.

You kept ordering anyway. That’s the only reason any of this was possible, and we’re grateful for it.

The formulas came back one by one, rebuilt from the original notebooks and logs. They haven’t been changed, except where Androtics itself had already upgraded a formula from an older version, and the version of each formula we make today is its most successful and popular one. Since late 2022:

  • A314 spray came back at the end of 2022, and a fresh batch of A314 was made in 2025, in both oil and spray. We also hold a limited supply of A314 made in 2009, sold as A314 Vintage until it runs out.
  • Instant Female Magic returned in 2023, after more than a decade off the market.
  • Game, Ammo’s original scent, returned in 2024. We found a small jar of the old concentrate in a locked metal cabinet in the lab and duplicated it, and Game is Ammo’s default scent again.
  • Instant Jerk, Raw Power and Instant Gentleman returned in 2024, and Hunted came back as Wanted.
  • The brushed stainless steel labels from the Androtics Direct days came back in 2024.
  • Six bottle sizes arrived in 2024 (5, 10, 18, 30, 50 and 100 mL), so you can try a formula for less before committing to a bigger bottle.
  • Androtics Neroli, the house scent of the original Instant line, returned in 2025 after about a year of work.
  • Prices came down on several formulas, including Instant Female Magic, Instant Charisma and Instant Honesty.
  • PheromoneTalk reopened in October 2026.

Orders ship the same day or the next business day.

Bringing back PheromoneTalk

When Greg took over, there was no neat backup of the forum sitting in a folder. The data was with a backup company in the UK, and no one was sure they still had it, including them. It came down to one person there who remembered one old server. He went digging for a few days and came back with a download link.

The data was stuck in an old version of vBulletin that’s no longer supported, so Greg asked the company that made it to convert it. They didn’t want to. He kept asking until they did. Then he moved all of it to Discourse, a modern forum with a phone app, fast search and reply notifications. Over the next few years he cleared out the spam, restored topics that had been unfairly deleted, and checked everything against the originals to make sure nothing important was lost.

PheromoneTalk reopened on October 9, 2026, with every old account, post and private message intact.

How we make it

Our pheromone actives are custom-made by specialist chemists in the U.S. and Europe, many of them working in academic or pharma-grade research settings. Every batch is verified by HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography) and TLC (thin layer chromatography) for purity, identity and consistency. That matters more than it sounds: side-products from a sloppy synthesis can change how a formula behaves or cancel it out, and a formula is only useful if it behaves the same way bottle after bottle.

We hold the largest library of synthetic putative human pheromones anywhere. We compound, bottle and ship every order ourselves, and someone on our team examines every bottle before it’s allowed on the shelf.

These are experimental cosmetic products, and everyone’s body chemistry is different. That’s why there’s a range of formulas: the fun part is finding the combination that fits you.

Our sites

  • A314.com: men’s pheromones for trust and respect, and the home of A314 and the Akuto scent.
  • PheromoneLabs.com: our experimental putative pheromones and MX mixtures, with more of the original Androtics experimental line added over time.
  • PheromoneTalk.com: the community forum, back since October 2026.
  • Coming soon: Phero.com, which will become our main men’s brand, and Phera.com, our main women’s brand. Each opens when it’s ready.

Timeline

  • 2000: Androtics creates Come Talk To Me, the first social pheromone blend.
  • 2002 to 2003: Androtics products start selling through other shops.
  • 2003: The A314 name is first used, on the formula that becomes the flagship.
  • 2004: The Instant line launches, with Androtics Neroli as its house scent.
  • 2005: Androtics opens its own store, Androtics Direct. PheromoneTalk opens to the public in October.
  • 2006: Greg meets the founder of Androtics at a seminar in Las Vegas.
  • 2009: PheromoneTalk’s busiest year, with more than 100,000 posts.
  • November 2018: The last post goes up on PheromoneTalk, and the forum goes dark.
  • 2018 to 2022: A long decline.
  • December 2021: A314.com opens, at first only to former Androtics customers and independent researchers.
  • Spring 2022: Filling and shipping move to Chicago, with Greg’s help.
  • Late 2022: Greg takes over the company completely. The A314 spray returns and five A314 special editions launch. The Androtics name is retired at the end of the year.
  • 2023: Instant Female Magic returns.
  • 2024: Game is restored as Ammo’s scent. Instant Jerk, Raw Power and Instant Gentleman return, and Hunted returns as Wanted. The brushed stainless steel labels and six bottle sizes arrive. The first FX Fragrance Pack launches in August.
  • 2025: Androtics Neroli returns. FX Fragrance Pack Vol. 2 launches in February. A fresh batch of A314 is made in oil and spray. The original Akuto-scented MX297 is reissued.
  • 2026: PheromoneTalk reopens on October 9.
  • Coming: Phero.com and Phera.com.

Last updated: October 28, 2026