[sodpoodle]

smells fishy

[Sacajaweau]

Perfume out of a stinky fish...Man is so clever. My question is...who figured out that you could make perfume out of it...and why even try??

L'eau de ????????

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You, too, can wear dead whale vomit…

A classic fougère. Herbaceous, green and fern-like in identity, this precedent-setting fragrance from Creed, created by Olivier Creed in 1985, has a big, bold, powerful character and still remains the epitome of masculine elegance. A signature scent of the house (Creed has been making fine fragrance since 1760 and is still a family business incidentally) and with a huge celebrity following (George Clooney and Cary Grant being fans allegedly), it is like a walk through the Irish countryside; inspired by the lush greenery of the Emerald Isle, its landed gentry and wild flowers and herbs warmed by a coastal breeze. Featuring Calabrian bergamot, Sicilian lemon and pink peppercorn as its opening gambit, with pepper, iris, Bulgarian rose and peppermint at its heart and sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli and ambergris in the dry-down. £230 for 100ml ($320).

[Sacajaweau]

Found in the belly, it is usually vomited...they lucked out before the whale puked his guts out.

[HighSierra5]

I thought maybe they found Jonah’s piggy bank.

[ClearCase_guy]

fishermen who stumbled upon a floating sperm whale carcass

Not sure how much to trust that.

I think that if an American were to harvest a sperm whale, it would be a crime against humanity.
A muslim can get a pass on that (because they're awesome) but from a public relations standpoint, maybe it's best to say that they were not hunting whales. They just found one.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Melville has an anecdote in Moby Dick about a Frenchman (whale ship) and ambergris. The Frenchman caught a sperm whale full of ambergris, which makes an awful smell. The Pequod happens upon the lucky find. Captain Ahab, good Christian that he is, gravely warns the French captain that ambergris is the smell of a dangerously diseased whale, and he should cut it loose and sail as far away as possible, as soon as possible. Once the Frenchman departs, Ahab pulls the prize aboard the Pequod.

[Macoozie]

Hannibal Lecter had his hand cream specially made in Italy out of ambergris.

Just sayin’ . ..

[Antoninus]

Oh, they just found the dead whale floating there. Right.