This substance from the intestines of sperm whales is still used as a fixative for expensive perfumes
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Whale-free perfume | Science News for Students  Jul 9, 2012 ... Expensive perfumes come in tiny bottles, but many hide a ... perfume makers often use an ingredient that comes from sperm whales with upset tummies. ... The new chemical, made by yeast with tree genes, can be used as a fixative, too. ... ambergris A waxlike substance that originates as a secretion in the...
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What Comes Out of a Whale and Goes Into Perfume? Ambergris ...  Dec 2, 2013 ... The material is used as a fixative in perfumery; it stabilizes and anchors the other notes, ... I wanted to know if people still use it and how it's used and where do you find. Sperm whales survive almost exclusively on squid. ... I assume that these days all but the most expensive perfumes depend on synthetics.
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Ambergris - Wikipedia  Ambergris is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish colour produced in the digestive system of sperm whales. ... Although ambergris was formerly highly valued by perfumers as a fixative (allowing the scent to last much longer), it has now ... Perfumes can still be found with ambergris around the world.
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What Are Whales Used for Today? | Our Everyday Life  Today, traditional uses of whale parts have been replaced with modern-day synthetics, and ... Ambergris comes from sperm whales' digestive tracts. ... Perfume makers use this whale by-product as a fixative in their perfumes. ... in perfume manufacturing, some manufacturers of expensive perfumes still use ambergris.
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5 Icky Animal Odors That Are Prized By Perfumers ...  Oct 13, 2014 ... Although they have been used in medicine as long as in perfume, it is in scent ... found in the stomach and intestines of about one in a hundred sperm whales, ... Its exact causes are still uncertain, but its growth may be spurred by the ... of perfumery; a fixative of great value, it is long-lasting and mellowing.
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jeopardy/1502_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  It was the sweet smell of success for Franois Coty, whose wealth in manufacturing this let him buy up newspapers | perfume. right: Dave. Wrong: Value: $600.
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Raw oysters really are aphrodisiacs say scientists (and now is the ...  Mar 20, 2005 ... Zinc is found in sperm and men lose between one and three milligrams per ejaculation. ... They then used a process called high-performance li-quid ... of hormones that ended with the production of testosterone in males and progesterone in females. ... "Yes, I do think these molluscs are aphrodisiacs.
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Fun_People Archive - 8 Nov - WhiteBoardness - 11/8/95  Nov 8, 1995 ... The discovery suggests that a drug that blocks the sperm's ability to sense that enticing aroma could be used as a male contraceptive, Dr. Robert Lefkowitz of Duke University said. ... Before research began, it was known that fish sperm, for example, must have some way to find eggs. ... 1995 Peter Langston []
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Gastroenterology Gastroenterology - World Journal of ...  Feb 21, 2009 ... Fawcett demonstrated that the Alcian dye technique overestimates ...... and lipids into rabbit jejunum following ileal resection[14]. In using a rat...
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The Knowledge and Art of Perfume | PerfumersWorld  In maceration, a process used with most flowers, the petals are put in oil heated ... The most important of fixatives used to be musk from the male musk deer. ... Nobody knows the smell of joss sticks and sacrifices that float to the sky and the .... could move and drop flowers and there was a small silver tube to spray perfume.
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How perfume is made - material, manufacture, making, history, used ...  Many natural and man-made materials have been used to make perfume to apply to ... His court contained a floral pavilion filled with fragrances, and dried flowers were ... this synthetic compound gives off the scents of sweet pea, lily of the valley, ... determines whether the perfume is "eau de toilette" (toilet water) or cologne.
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5 Icky Animal Odors That Are Prized By Perfumers ...  Oct 13, 2014 ... Secretions, digestions and excretions of animals are some of the most expensive ... Although they have been used in medicine as long as in perfume, it is in ... Musk deer weigh twenty-five pounds and stand only twenty inches high. ... reveals the musky, floral sweetness for which the substance is renowned.
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August 27, 2008  ... the hardest substance found in nature a diamond There are only 12 letters in .... egg derivative is almost always found in a tuna fish sandwich Mayonnaise In...
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TheExplodingWhale.com  "A dead whale is worse" (11/15/70)  Nov 15, 1970 ... Go to previous or next 1970 newspaper article. ... days after officials blew up a dead sperm whale on the Oregon coast. ... One laid on city's doorstep in 1915 ... Odor problems from a dead whale on the beach at Florence were nipped in ... Students could gaze at the mammal in wonder, and the whales' [sic]...
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perfume facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Many natural and man-made materials have been used to make perfume to apply to ... His court contained a floral pavilion filled with fragrances, and dried flowers were ... this synthetic compound gives off the scents of sweet pea, lily of the valley, ... determines whether the perfume is "eau de toilette" (toilet water) or cologne.
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C&EN: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - Monosodium Glutamate  Jul 28, 2003 ... The first cooking trick I ever picked up, when I was about eight years old, was to ... MSG may be the most widely used flavor enhancer after salt and pepper. ... But in the past three years, Chinese companies have joined the ranks. ... He isolated the substance in a seaweed that for centuries Japanese cooks...
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Effect of Ferula assa-foetida oleo gum resin on spermatic ... - NCBI  After 6 weeks, a small part of the cauda epididymis of each rat was dissected, and ... that asafoetida and its constituents have antiviral,[5] antispasmolitic action. ... At the end of experiments, the rats under study were observed for symptoms of...
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Natural and Synthetic Musk ~ Raw Materials - Fragrantica  Mar 6, 2014 ... Male deer use musk to mark their own territory and to attract females for ... In the Muslim world, musk powder mixed with sandalwood oil made Musk Attars. ... (Scent and Chemistry: The Molecular World of Perfumes by Gunther .... the oppositethey said that synthetic musk is not suitable even for soap and...
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Milk's Leap to Immortality  Matt Lallo. Unfiltered  May 12, 2016 ... The relentlessly quoted critic Clifton Fadiman's aphorism on cheese, ... Mammalian stomachs contain enzymes called rennet which are ... Cheese in its myriad forms has been a food and an epicurean treasure for centuries.
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jeopardy/2769_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Wrong: Value: $2000. Number: 26. AD-JECTIVES | It's applied to juicy steaks or, botanically, to cacti & other water-retaining plants | succulent. right: Matt. Wrong:.
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Jeopary Questions page 1749 - MONKEY BUSINESS - TriviaBistro ...  OLD JOBS: As this type of now-outdated scientist, Paracelsus sought a primal substance called alkahest  TALK LIKE SHAKESPEARE: Of pestilent, perspicuous...