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Castoreum in Perfumery – The Haute Couture Leather Note

Of the three great animalic materials in classical perfumery – musk, civet and castoreum – castoreum is the one that never quite went out of fashion. It is the source of every serious leather note ...

Ambergris – The Liquid Gold of the Ocean in Perfumery

Ambergris may be the strangest luxury product in the world. It is found washed up on beaches from New Zealand to the Bahamas, it smells like nothing else on earth, it is illegal in some countries a...