Perfumers LOVE whale poop!

Perfumes contain many very strange ingredients, but one of the strangest is definitely ambergris. These days, it's mostly replaced by a synthetic compound - so don't worry about dowsing yourself in whale bile ;)

[isefol]

Scented yourself with expensive perfume made from poop, drank the most expensive coffee made from poop, happy poop life

[SulGhst]

I'm far more horrified by the fact that the whale dies from that than the fact the smell comes from poop.

[OurHeroXero]

Okay. I'm just going to say it.

*Poo*-fume

[krokodyl]

Geez, I thought, and it has been well known, that ambergris was from whale vomit. WTF? 😮

[michaelmagaletta]

Futurama fans already know about ambergris. Whale biologist!

[zackwalker]

Yeah. The whale poop makes the perfume scent last longer.. BUT the SCENT that’s “to die for” in perfume comes from a cat’s balls.

What?!?

I said what I said.

[Yoooonis]

*flashbacks to that one bobs burgers episode where the kids find some ambergris and try to sell it on the black market*

[mikelytou]

"until recently"

What did they replace it with?

[garg]

“The next time you put on perfume, I want you to think about an extremely constipated whale”

Lol

[One_High_Guy_]

whale whale whale what do we have here!!!

[RazorRevenge]

Serious question. When one washes up on shore who gets ownership of it? Coming across one and selling it would bring life changing money. Would it be whoever finds it first or would the government have claim on it?

[İzmir_city_state_republic]

İ always though it was from their heads. Not their poop

[fanaticalpotato]

Literally just been reading Moby Dick and learned about ambergris

[PiglipsMaximus]

To the person who found this ball of shite and made millions, what a legend

[User-ebmy]

Who the fuck starts a conversation like that? I just sat down.

[skullsquad]

I thought it was from the back of the whales throat? Either way, it nasty.

[melmicsim]

Huh? It is vomit from the speed whale. Where are your sources?

[deadlyvalley]

Ambergris is usually made in laboratories. 👍🏻

[duran]

🦚 I know for a fact that some people drink certain animals’ pee & use some of its ingredients as perfume😒

[Cheesepuff]

Ye I heard it called whale vomit but I never believed that