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Ambergis is a substance you get
from a sperm whale's intestines when the whale
has been eating squid and their beaks have
irritated the walls of his innards. It was a
very popular ingredient in perfumes though it is
hard to imagine that it smells good. Ishmael
talks lots about it in Moby Dick. Probably just
as headily perfumy as musk, which is a glandular
excretion from a male musk deer.
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