Yes. Vampires can smell menstruation. Vampires will often sneak into public female restrooms, take the tampons out of the receptacles, and suck on them like lollipops.
No. What vampires are really after is not blood but life-energy. There are vampires that don't even drink blood but have found a way to steal life-energy without it. So drinking the blood of a dead...
If your asking about the first vampire that was created, then the very fist vampire was Mikael. He was the father of the originals, and the one that turned them.