(Picture provided for identification should you stumble over this "whale of a treasure" while walking the beach.)
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It is very good for attracting goats!
Rosie the Pig is sitting on a Gold Mine.
Pray for W and Our Troops
And they will not touch pork.
Ambergris is still sold in the city of Mecca. Iranians ask for it from perfume sellers. Men eat Ambergris to stimulate their sexual power and women to cure infertility. The famous chronist Ibn battuta, known as "the Traveler of Islam" narrates in his diaries to have observed with astonishment in a city of Persia that people ate hashish and Ambergris without sense of guilt , alluding possibly to a narcotic effect of Ambergris.
In Morocco it is tradition to use Ambergris with tea and it is amazing to observe how a very small piece of Ambergris sticked inside the teapot's cover flavors the tea by mere contact with the vapor for years along.
The Sperm whale strangely it is not on the way towards extinction, but the natural rarity of Ambergris and its precious properties have rendered it mythical just like Musk. Because of its very high price, Ambergris is nearly not used anymore in perfumery where it has been replaced by the synthetic pityful imitations.
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ETHICAL CERTIFICATION
Ambergris is the only scent of animal origin obtained without killing, imprisoning or torturing the animal that produces it.
The Arab royals consuming whale poop? Good to know the hard earned money I pay for gas is being put to good use. I just have to wonder where they keep the whales with the water scarcity over there and all.
Want to know the definition of mixed fortune?
Million dollar whale vomit can’t be sold
It's to protect the whales! Bloody Politicians!