Is There a Connection Between Pheromones and Pherotonin?

Whenever anyone brings up pheromones, it still sounds like some made up thing that a pickup artist came up with. In the 1800s, there was a French gourmand named John on film Briat Savarin. He said whoever says truffle utters a great word, which arouses erotic and gastronomic memories among the skirted sex and the bearded sex. Now I understand the the bors saliva connection.