Tailored Pheromones Clarification Options

[Seerow]

Prelude, I'm not actually a face, but our group's face is looking into picking these up soon, and there seems to be some disagreement as to how they work. From the book:

Tailored Pheromones: The subject’s body is altered to release specially designed pheromones to subtly influence others. Tailored pheromones add their rating as a dice pool modifier to Charisma and Social Skill Tests. This bonus has no effect on magical abilities and tests.

My interpretation of this: The bioware effectively gives you +3 charisma and +3 to social skills.
Other Interpretation of this: There is no benefit to charisma directly, the bioware simply gives +3 dice to any test where charisma comes up, or any test where social skills come up.

Arguments for my interpretation:
1) This is the only effect I can find outside of a Increase Attribute spell I can find that boosts charisma directly. This isn't necessarily an argument saying it must be boosting charisma, but it seems to me that it's a strong point in favor of it given most of the attributes have some way to boost them permanently.

2) The wording is frankly redundant. Why mention social skill tests and charisma back to back? There are no social tests that aren't charisma based. If the intent was to have just one, why would it not be worded as just +3 to all charisma tests? Or just a flat +3 charisma?

3) I know it's not a definitive source, but it's generally pretty reliable-The excel character sheet from the community projects section of this site has tailored pheromones granting +3 charisma on the main sheet.


Arguments For the other interpretation:
1) Charisma test != Social skill tests. There's attribute only tests, Charisma test, and there's skill + attribute tests. The description mentions both simply to be complete.





Anyone know of a clear accepted ruling one way or the other on this?