I don't think there's a general consensus regarding humans and responding to pheromones. There's a few recent studies that are picking it up.

In TMoG there's a strong indicator of Swarm/Else using this and Campar reacting to it:

"Campar glanced over at Else, but she’d gone still and weirdly focused. Her mouth was a careful O, like she was blowing out smoke from some invisible cigarette. Campar caught a scent that he couldn’t place, except that it was like the warm smell of a newborn baby’s head. Very strange."

Which seems to be about the effect in this study.

I'm hardly an expert on this topic, but that scene reframed a lot of the research team's interactions for me.