Can perfume make you sick? Or can it be made from sick?
Here's a news item about a girl who finds whale vomit and will make a whole lot of money selling it to perfume makers. The secretion is actually called ambergris which is defined as a "wax-like substance secreted from the intestines of the sperm whale, found floating in tropical seas and used in perfume manufacture."
A couple of questions arise from this.
First, how the hell would one pick this stuff up if they were a 10 year old child?
Secondly, since when did Wales border a tropical sea?
Also, how do we actually know that this comes from a sperm whale? Does someone follow them around and watch them get sick?
And finally, who would have thought to use this secretion in the first place? I mean did someone just walk down the beach, much like this young girl and suddenly decide "oh, this is very interesting... let's make something out of it".
It takes all kinds, doesn't it?
Here's a news item about a girl who finds whale vomit and will make a whole lot of money selling it to perfume makers. The secretion is actually called ambergris which is defined as a "wax-like substance secreted from the intestines of the sperm whale, found floating in tropical seas and used in perfume manufacture."
A couple of questions arise from this.
First, how the hell would one pick this stuff up if they were a 10 year old child?
Secondly, since when did Wales border a tropical sea?
Also, how do we actually know that this comes from a sperm whale? Does someone follow them around and watch them get sick?
And finally, who would have thought to use this secretion in the first place? I mean did someone just walk down the beach, much like this young girl and suddenly decide "oh, this is very interesting... let's make something out of it".
It takes all kinds, doesn't it?
1 Comments:
Okay, so I get all sorts of comments about art and nude flights, but nothing about whale puke? I'd have thought it would have sparked a really interesting dialogue...
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