Pheromone Scout earns affiliate commissions. Here's exactly how that works and why it doesn't touch the scores.
When you click a merchant link on this site and buy something, we receive a small percentage of that sale. The commission comes from the retailer, not from you. The price you pay is the same as if you'd navigated there directly.
The programs we currently participate in include Amazon Associates and the direct affiliate programs of several brands whose products we review. Not every link on the site is an affiliate link. Some brands run no program. Some products we cover are sold only through channels that don't offer one. When that's the case, we still link there.
We link to the retailer with the best verified price we can find, not the one with the highest commission rate. That's the policy, and it hasn't changed.
The scoring pipeline runs on formulation data, brand transparency, quality tier within format class, and cleaned buyer reception. These are computed in a separate system and against a fixed methodology. No one at Pheromone Scout adjusts a score to protect a commission rate or to reward a brand with a generous affiliate program.
Products with no affiliate relationship appear in rankings if the scores put them there. Several do. The best product in a given category gets the top spot regardless of what it pays us.
We've never accepted money to feature a product, lift a score, or write a favorable review. If that ever changes, we'll say so at the top of every affected page. That's not a legal hedge. That's just what we'd do.
Federal Trade Commission guidelines require websites to disclose material connections to merchants whose products they review. This page satisfies that requirement.
We'd publish it regardless. Readers have a right to know the financial structure of any site that recommends products, and ours is straightforward: affiliate commissions, no sponsored content, no brand relationships, no gifted product without disclosure.
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