do you know the Weird and surprising facts about perfume.

Do you know the Weird and surprising facts about perfume.

• The excreta of sperm whales was used in perfumes.

• Many jasmine notes are derived from coal tar.

• Fresh lilies have notes which smell like ham.

• Musk is derived from the male musk deer.

• Roses have hundreds of scent molecules combining notes of different aromas.

• A liquid from the anal glands of civets is a popular perfume ingredient.

• A guy named Jammie Nicholas bottled his own shit and sold it as perfume.

• There’s a Chanel perfume with extracts from a beaver’s abdominal glands.

• Hyraceum, a perfume ingredient derived from the faeces of a small rodent, is still used by niche perfume houses.

• There’s a perfume which combined the smell of blood, spit, sweat, and semen.

• There are barbeque and bacon-inspired fragrances out there.