Are Pheromones real?

When I hear the word pheromone the first picture that comes to mind are small honey bees that are attracted and ready to mate with the queen bee's chemical scent. I remember this from my organic chemistry class because my professor made us learn the structure and reaction for that chemical :/ .
Pheromones are chemicals that are secreted for a social response of the same species. There are about 10 different types of pheromones known to date:
1) Aggregation
2) Alarm
3) Epideictic
4) Releaser
5) Signal
6) Primer
7) Territorial
8) Trail
9) Information
10) sex

All of which are usually evident in animals, especially insects!
Human pheromones, on the other hand, aren't so obvious. There was an article that I came across called Pheromones in humans: Myth or Reality? and it talked about the six different areas of our body that glands are heavily concentrated in and how it correlates with the response of pheromones. Most people believe that human pheromones is closely related to body odor and to be honest I somewhat believe that it can be true. I remember watching a documentary on discovery channel's 'Science of Sex Appeal' awhile back and what i thought was interesting was how a person's voice or even a man's sweat can cause some sort sexual attraction. I don't know about people, but when I saw those ladies go from jar to jar to smell the sweaty t-shirts, I couldn't understand how they didn't get grossed out. EWWW!
Although the main research on human pheromones are their auxiliary steroids, vaginal aliphatic, acids and stimulators of vomernasal organ.
What i also thought was interesting how our menstrual cycle becomes in synced when you put several females under one household. When i first heard about it a couple years ago i didn't believe it. But I have noticed that over the years my mother and I have been in synced multiple times. Even this past summer, when I was doing research in San Antonio, Tx my roommate and I began to become synced as well. I've seen her almost everyday since then at school and our synched cycle remains. I thought that was a bit interesting. Although, still today there are some debate about whether or not this phenomenon is valid. I couldn't find a good video that talked about it, but i found an article, Menstrual synchrony, that talks about the evidence that has been found for it and some who are against this idea. I thought it was interesting read and hope that in a couple decades we can determine whether or not pheromones do control this!