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According to National Geographic, Chanel and Lanvin use ambergris in some of their high-end scents.

Thinking, I'm safe with Old Spice?

1 posted on 06/03/2021 2:16:16 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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And I’m good with Wind Song.


2 posted on 06/03/2021 2:19:12 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Faith, not fear. Faith, not faintheartedness.)
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It is illegal to even pick the stuff up off the beach in the US.


3 posted on 06/03/2021 2:20:24 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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Things I have never heard a woman say

Hello dear. just sit down and relax, I’ve made you a drink. I’ll be right back after I slip into something more comfortable and put on a strong smell of marine fecal odor.


4 posted on 06/03/2021 2:20:54 PM PDT by PGR88
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Some lady is going to be very happy rubbing that on her neck.


5 posted on 06/03/2021 2:26:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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Ambergris is particularly valuable for its use making perfumes’ scents last longer.

I would imagine whale vomit would be like that.


6 posted on 06/03/2021 2:28:08 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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Cptn Ahab was save to this info


10 posted on 06/03/2021 2:32:17 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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so about $43K per crew member? That’s not a lot of money to buy new cars, boats, and homes....


11 posted on 06/03/2021 2:32:50 PM PDT by martinidon
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so attacking Barf Bags to Whales will make you rich , LOL


12 posted on 06/03/2021 2:33:34 PM PDT by butlerweave
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I’ve always worn good perfume since high-school days. I owe a lot to those whales. Even went on whale-watching boat in San Francisco. Lovely creatures, better alive than dead.


15 posted on 06/03/2021 2:40:50 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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Can we buy shares in whale hurl?


16 posted on 06/03/2021 2:42:01 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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“Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me, and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-labourers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally, as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill humour or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15435-squeeze-squeeze-squeeze-all-the-morning-long-i-squeezed-that


17 posted on 06/03/2021 2:42:40 PM PDT by BusterDog
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Lucky find.


18 posted on 06/03/2021 2:43:44 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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I’ll stick with Aqua Velva, Stetson, and for real special occasions, The Baron. But with so much hoop-la and snowflakes having cows about their allergies to fragrances and perfumes; most of the time I just skip the cologne. That’s one of the joys of having a beard. No more need even for after shave. I won’t give up my Stetson anti-perspirant stick, though. Let the snowflakes scream!


19 posted on 06/03/2021 2:45:21 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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my question would be, how the hell did this even come to invention?? how did they find out whale vomit did such a thing????? Crazy!!


21 posted on 06/03/2021 2:48:41 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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“The fishermen sold off the 280-pound hunk of ambergris and bought new houses, cars, and boats.”

$1.5 million/35 = $42,000.


22 posted on 06/03/2021 2:56:28 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Trump took down ISIS; Biden took down Dr. Seuss)
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If you need comment on this issue, ask Ralph. I spoke to him not long ago on the big phone.


24 posted on 06/03/2021 3:04:17 PM PDT by Richard Axtell ( NO*)
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Whenever they blow up a beached whale on your local beach, remember this story.


25 posted on 06/03/2021 3:16:47 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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Only in this world could whale vomit command such a price.


26 posted on 06/03/2021 3:17:03 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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I repulsed my mom and sister the day I came home from school and explained to them that whale vomit was a vital ingredient in all their perfume.


33 posted on 06/03/2021 4:16:26 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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How much ambragris can we mine out of this @sshoe?


35 posted on 06/03/2021 4:28:24 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less)
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