Pheromone Speed Dating: Brooklyn 👃✨
Say YES to your NOSE... you might just meet your match!
What if attraction began before you ever saw someone's face?
After a successful debut in Colorado, Pheromone Speed Dating is wafting its way to Brooklyn—and you're invited to be part of the magic.
Step into a playful, edgy, and fully guided 2-hour journey where the rules of attraction are flipped upside down. In this experimental and heartfelt container, we’ll drop below the surface—beyond words, beyond sight, and straight to the primal intelligence of your senses.
What is Pheromone Speed Dating?
This isn’t your average night out. It's an immersive matchmaking experience where scent leads the way. Through a series of three curated dating rounds, you'll explore chemistry, compatibility, and connection—using scent, physical presence, intuition, touch, sound, and your heart as your compass.
We blend light-hearted games, conscious play, and blindfolded exploration to help you tune into the people you're truly drawn to—before the distractions of appearances and small talk come into play. At the end, blindfolds come off, sparks (hopefully) fly, and new possibilities unfold.
After the activities, relax with a cup of tea and mingle with your new connections.
At previous events, 88% of participants leave with at least one mutual match.
Important Details
👥 Who’s it for:
Singles & open-hearted humans ages 30–48.
🌈 LGTBQ+ and ENM pheromone speed dating events are incoming. This event is specifically for you hetero-seeking singles (and your delightful smelling friends!)
This experience will be limited to 12 men and 12 women.
📍 Where:
Grand St Healing Project, Brooklyn (Williamsburg)
🕕 When:
7:30 - 10:30pm
*Please arrive between 7:30 - 7:45 as we will be closing the doors at 7:45.
Sound interesting? Please read the description in full before making a reservation as it contains important information for how to be fully prepared for this event.
Guidelines
What To Wear:
You are welcome to dress however you’d like. Naturally, we recommend wearing something that feels authentic and that you’d wear to a night out on a date.
More importantly than what you wear, however, is what to not wear.
On the day of the speed dating event, please make sure you have absolutely NO deodorant, cologne, perfumes, essential oils, or synthetic/natural scents beyond your own. This includes all sorts of sprays, lotions, or product that may interfere with your body’s natural pheromones. We know—this is a bit edgy in today's world. But your natural scent is part of your authentic signal. Trust us, your future matches want the most natural version of you! What you may consider your “BO” is actually someone else's heaven. 🤤 To that end, again, do not wear any smells on you or your clothes on the day of the event.
Bonus Points: Have a light sweat and skip your shower on the day of the event (yes, really). You'll be amazed what happens when we stop scrubbing away our animal instincts.
What To Bring:
In the nights leading up to the event, sleep in a plain, scent-free t-shirt or garment. Bring this article with you. It will be used anonymously during one of the blindfolded scent-matching games.
Again: wear a t-shirt to bed the nights before the event, and bring it to the event (separately from what you're wearing)
Do not forget it!
What To Expect
• Upon arrival, you’ll hand in your powered-up garment and be guided to your seat.
• The first two matchmaking rounds are completely blindfolded—allowing chemistry to unfold without visual bias.
• The blindfolds come off for the final round, and you will have an opportunity to engage visually with the other participants before matching. Visual attraction does matter too, after all.
• At the end, you’ll submit your match preferences. Any mutual connections will be shared with you post-event.
• We’ll close the night after the three rounds with tea, mingling, and decompression time.
This evening guides us lovingly to the edge of our comfort zones, with a priority of meeting each other from a place of emotional intelligence and intention. You are encouraged to lean into an experimental attitude while honoring your yes’s and your no’s.
Showing up with openness, vulnerability and respect will go a long way in making this evening fun and safe for everyone.
Orientation & Inclusivity:
This particular evening is designed for heterosexual pairings.
We wholeheartedly support the LGBTQ+ community and hope to offer queer-centered pheromone dating events soon!
A Note on Physical Contact:
Gentle, consensual touch will be part of the experience—but everything is opt-in. Clear boundaries will be honored and reaffirmed throughout the night.
While we love hugs (seriously, they’re the best), we ask that you do not hug anyone (including friends!) upon arrival—this helps preserve the purity of each person’s unique smellscape.
🎟️ Reservation required 24 hours in advance.
To help balance male and female participants.
Interested within 24 hours? Email: natemacanian@gmail.com to request standby availability.
About the facilitators:
Nate Macanian: The Connection Specialist
Nate Macanian is the lead facilitator and founder of Oxytocin, a traveling teahouse and authentic connection community. Nate curates fun and quirky community gatherings at the intersection of tea, music, global culture and spirituality. Once a high school collector of the finest Axe bodysprays, Nate has now gone all natural and isn’t going back! When he isn’t matchmaking with Pheromone Speed Dating, you’ll find Nate leading heart-centered plant medicine ceremonies and hosting community retreats and Jewish rituals throughout the United States.
Rita Kamenetskiy: The Scientist
Rita Kamenetskiy is a bioengineer and researcher whose work explores the complexity of the human body. Outside the lab you can find her raft guiding, ski instructing, partner dancing, jiu jitsuing or capoeira-ing. Obsessed with movement, science and authentic human connection, she brings a grounded and curious presence to the evening, assisting to create a space where participants feel comfortable, supported, educated, and free to explore connection with openness and play.
Pheromone speed dating.
It's weird.
It's playful.
It's surprisingly wholesome.
And for many people, it's one of the most memorable dating experiences they've ever had.
Come say YES to your NOSE 👃 ✨
Questions?