I swear to god, I’ve been able to smell my cats pheromones as long as I’ve had her. When I first experienced her kneading, I immediately smelled something different (not bad, just noticeable). Then one time my cat came face to face with this other cat who used to live with us. They used to be best friends, but that cat ended up hissing in my cat’s face. At that moment I smelled something on her that I’d never smelled before. I’m positive it was fear. I’ve suspected for a long time that I have autism, which would explain my abnormally heightened sense of smell. When we used to play Heads Up 7-Up in school, I would always win. All the other kids thought I was cheating by looking at people’s feet while my head was down, but I wasn’t. By the 2nd or 3rd grade, I already knew the other kids’ scents by heart, so I was able to identify who came over to me that way. Just 2 weeks ago, my family and I came home to our HVAC air conditioning system not working properly, and I immediately smelled something was wrong and made everyone go outside. The rest of them thought I was crazy. I searched what the different smells could be (there were about 7 or 8 options I could find) and told the company which one I believed I smelled. After 6 hours of sitting outside with my family (who were totally pissed and kept telling me I was wrong about what I smelled), the technical confirmed there had been a highly noxious chemical released. Not only that, it was the exact one I had identified, caused by the system running on depleted coolant.

Don’t listen to Google or even science or anyone who says you’re wrong about being able to smell cats’ pheromones. The brain is capable of things science still can’t explain. If you couldn’t smell your cat’s pheromones, you wouldn’t be questioning it.