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Up until not too much ago we also extracted musk essence from the anal glands of white belly musk deer. Another interesting thing is oud. It's a resin produced
by amarcheschi 2y ago
Up until not too much ago we also extracted musk essence from the anal glands of white belly musk deer. Another interesting thing is oud. It's a resin produced in aquilaria trees when infected with a specific fungus, and it can cost tens of thousands of dollars per kg. I think one of the first famous commercial Perfumes to use it was m7 by ysl, you can read an article on it on fragrantica: https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Yves-Saint-Laurent-M7-Revisiting-the-Modern-Classic-18098.html https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Yves-Saint-Laurent-M7-Revis...
- dekhn 2y agoDon't forget castoreum, from sacs near the anus of beaver.
- amarcheschi 2y agoYep. Funny enough, in Italian beaver is just castoro
- Loughla 2y agoI recently did a trapping class with my youngest so he could get his license to trap nuisance animals. I was surprised by how pleasant beaver smells. And how DELICIOUS they are. How are they not extinct?
- bartread 2y agoIn some parts of the world they have been extinct. They'd been extinct in the UK for a very long time until recently re-introduced.
- dekhn 2y agoThat's a great question, I really have no idea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_hat). I'm generally not opposed to hunting, and totally get that beavers are a nuisance to many people, but IMHO they're probably a load-bearing element of many ecologies. I was just looking at 150 acres of swamp supporting a diverse ecosystem today created by a family of beavers
- eru 2y agoCows are very delicious to humans and make good leather, but that has been very good for there survival: we breed lots and lots of them. If beavers became more popular as food (and for their fur, again), we would probably make sure we had plenty of them around.
- bawolff 2y ago> How are they not extinct? Hats went out of fashion.
- cogman10 2y ago> How are they not extinct? One species of beaver, the European beaver, almost did go extinct. The American beaver was simply lucky to live in a vast unpopulated land where it wasn't a highly desired hunting target.
- givemeethekeys 2y agoI'll stick to normal exotics like Axe Body Spray.
- dekhn 2y agoAxe Body spray: Alcohol Denat, Butane, Isobutane, Propane, Perfume, Ethylhexylglycerin, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Citral, Citronellol, Coumarin, Geraniol, Hydroxycitronellal, Limonene, Linalool. The perfume likely contains exotics, but the rest of the ingredients are mainly sourced from fermentation products, hydrocarbons (petroleum), or synthetic versions of plant oils/terpenes. Coumarin came up on Hacker News recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40758767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40758767 The entire history of perfumes is fascinating, and like pigments/dyes, was completely transformed by modern organic synthesis, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume#History and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume#Synthetic_sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume#Synthetic_sources
- toast0 2y agoConsider branching out to Bod.
- jarsbe 2y agoOud is exceptional. I highly recommend anyone wanting to explore beyond western perfumes to check out www.ensaroud.com - there's some really fantastic descriptions of olfactory notes too.
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- epapsiou 2y agoFirst one to use oud was Balenciaga PH. M7, AFAIK, used the synthetic oud captive. Not the real deal. Definitely the reissue (square bottle) did.