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I seem to recall the recommendation, in the original edition of The Joy of Sex I still keep stashed in my nightstand (more to point and laugh at the hairy seventies models than anything else) that dabbing a little of one's scent on pulse points would drive wild a man with whom one came in close contact. I never tried it. I think, though, that the assumption is that these secretions would come from a clean, healthy vagina, and that they were intended to be taken in by someone who was already known to be capable of being sexually aroused by the wearer (in other words, a lover or partner) who would be very close at hand--and not all men within a radius of ten feet. I have no idea whether this suggestion made it into the yuppified Second Edition.
But then, perfume is not really meant to be discernible more than a foot or so away from the wearer. Dousing yourself with anything, whether it be "Vulva" or "Champs d'Elysees," so that it overpowers all innocent bystanders within a radius of ten feet, is bad manners and a form of air pollution.
