ambergris info (whale vomit)

please tell me, how exactly do you collect whale vomit for perfume??

Is monkey (...) used for after shave?

This sounds a little "tree huggerish" to me

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Originally posted by redseal
please tell me, how exactly do you collect whale vomit for perfume??

Is monkey sh*t used for after shave?

This sounds a little "tree huggerish" to me

you sir, have just proved yourself ignorant.

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Ambergris
Ambergris

Ambergris (Ambra grisea, Ambre gris, ambergrease, or grey amber) is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish color, with the shades being variegated like marble. It possesses a peculiar sweet, earthy odor similar to isopropyl alcohol. Now largely replaced by synthetics, it is occasionally still used as a fixative in perfumery.

Ambergris was also molded, dried, decorated and worn as jewellery, particularly during the Renaissance. It was often formed into beads.

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also from wiki;

In this developed condition, ambergris has a specific gravity ranging from 0.780 to 0.926. It melts at about 62 °C to a fatty, yellow resinous liquid; and at 100 °C it is volatilized into a white vapor. It is soluble in ether, and in volatile and fixed oils. Ambergris is relatively nonreactive to acid. White crystals of a substance called ambrein, which closely resembles cholesterol, can be separated from ambergris by heating raw ambergris in alcohol then allowing the resulting solution to cool.

you can test if it is ambergris, provided it is developed and not "raw".

It's usually filled with hard squid beaks.
This gives rise to the thoery that it is a by-product of the stomach/digestive system protecting the insides of the whale.

The ambergris builds up on the foreign matter inside the body to stop any damage occuring.

Wish I could find some.