How to Make High-End Perfumes Without Whale Barf

Refernce: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120405075357.htm

Summary: When sperm whales consume sharp objects, such as seashells, and fish bones, their gut produces a sticky substance, to protect their digestive organs. then the whales regulate the mixture just like a cat with a fur ball and their vomit that reacts with the seawater and turns into rock like objects that wash ashore. Ambergris is the scented compound is added to high-end perfumes to help the fragrance stay on the skin longer. "The use of ambergris in the fragrance industry has been controversial," says Bohlmann, who is a professor of Botany and Forest Sciences. "First of all, it's an animal byproduct and the use of such in cosmetics has been problematic, not to mention it comes from the sperm whale, an endangered species."

Critique: I never knew that there was whale ambergris in perfume. i just think that it is disgusting.

Impact: The whale ambergis could be more useful than the other things they use in perfume or not.