Precious perfume ingredients such as frankincense Incense - stick against censers   based satisfies wood, sandalwood, musk, rose, surrounded by many myths and legends, but perhaps none of them does not cause as much interest as amber. Even in ancient times amber due to its unique therapeutic and aromatic properties was considered invaluable material.

What is amber

Raw ambergris is dark gray or black lumps are small, not much different from the ordinary stones. But it is necessary to touch them by hand - and awakened living warmth they exude a unique flavor, sweet, musky, exciting, with the salty taste of seaweed and tobacco leaf. The most unusual feature of ambergris - the smell of her resistance. Although the fragrance itself is not heavy, he scents and does not inhibit other smells within a radius of half a meter, but the trail is unique, so for that amber prized by perfumers.

The irony is that the source of this wonderful fragrance, which comes in a variety of perfumes - the fuel wax-like substance formed in the digestive tract of the sperm whale. Some species of sperm whales, for example, Physeter macrocephalus, prone to disorders of the digestive tract that cause squid and other cephalopods in their diet. Indigestible portion of shellfish and squid linger in the digestive tract of the sperm whale, causing them to produce a substance that appears periodically on their body along with the waste. At first the black goo, plucked from the stomach of a sperm whale has a very unpleasant smell, but after a while will lie in the sun, washed by the waters of the ocean, gets its own unique salty musky scent.

Application

Because ambergris - a substance of animal origin, of course, when it is used there is a question of ethics and protection of the environment .  Sperm whales are animal species that are threatened with extinction; their numbers started to decline in the XIX century due to the high demand for their oil, which has wonderful emollient properties .  Today, the population of sperm whales is still not restored .  While for high-quality amber do not need to hurt the whale, because it wastes his life, it is known that the substance may be obtained directly from the stomach of a sperm whale, and then turns into amber .  Unfortunately, the average consumer is difficult to understand how it was obtained amber used in his favorite perfumes - either naturally or harvested illegally .  In addition, today natural amber because of its sensational high cost, widely replaced by artificial analogues .

As a consumer, you can be sure that your bottle of perfume is not genuine amber, of course, if the perfume house is not directly stated to the contrary. Recent amber perfume with mass-produced in the late 1970s. As already mentioned, amber - are extremely rare and expensive ingredient, and the big brands that produce most of the perfumes available on the market today do not use natural amber from financial and ethical considerations.

Although natural substance differs surprisingly delicate flavor that is difficult to reproduce, scientists were able to create some interesting synthetic substitutes, including ambroks (or ambroksan) tsetaloks, grisalva and amber. Ambroksan gives musky fragrance-wood, sweetish note with an interesting undertone, which is a cross between a fresh and velvety fragrance. This ingredient has a very pleasant smell seductive, revealing the skin is very soft and gentle. It can be felt in the Frederic Malle Géranium pour Monsieur, Portrait of a Lady, Robert Piguet Calypso, Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue and Lancôme Mille et Une Rôse. Ambergris - a major component of ambergris, sweet, warm, with a persistent smell of tobacco and caramel tones. It is widely used in the compositions of wood, musk, to give them notes of animal tempting, because amber - the strongest aphrodisiac. Ambergris is found in Caron Infini, Parfums d'Empire Ambre Russe, Annick Goutal Quel Amour and Jean-Paul Gaultier Classique.

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