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  2. Ambergris - Wikipedia

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    From the 18th to the mid-19th century, the whaling industry prospered. By some reports, nearly 50,000 whales, including sperm whales, were killed each year. Throughout the 19th century, "millions of whales were killed for their oil, whalebone, and ambergris" to fuel profits, and they soon became endangered as a species as a result. [28]

  3. Behind the Spritz: What Really Goes Into a Bottle of $100 Perfume

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    Manufacturer's Overhead: $15. A big chunk of the perfume price goes toward the manufacturer's corporate overhead -- everything from the salary of the brand's CEO to corporate office expenses.

  4. 12 Pricey Perfumes That Are Worth Every Spritz - AOL

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    Original No. 1 Feminine Perfume. Clive Christian’s No. 1 Imperial Majesty, created in 2006 and issued in a limited-edition run (as in, 10 bottles) of diamond-studded Baccarat crystal flacons ...

  5. Spermaceti - Wikipedia

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    Spermaceti is taken from the spermaceti organ (yellow) and junk (orange) within the sperm whale's head. Raw spermaceti is liquid within the head of the sperm whale, and is said to have a smell similar to raw milk. [8] It is composed mostly of wax esters (chiefly cetyl palmitate) and a smaller proportion of triglycerides. [9]

  6. Whale oil - Wikipedia

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    A bottle of whale oil. Whale oil is oil obtained from the blubber of whales. [1] Oil from the bowhead whale was sometimes known as train-oil, which comes from the Dutch word traan ("tear drop"). Sperm oil, a special kind of oil obtained from the head cavities of sperm whales, differs chemically from ordinary whale oil: it is composed mostly of ...

  7. Donald Trump releases a fragrance line called Fight ... - AOL

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    Donald Trump’s line of cologne and perfume, called Fight, Fight, Fight, will cost $199 per bottle.. Add cologne and perfume to the seemingly ever-growing list of products that bear the name of ...

  8. Perfume - Wikipedia

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    Perfume (UK: / ˈ p ɜː f j uː m /, US: / p ər ˈ f j uː m / ⓘ) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent. [1]

  9. Walgreen's Helps Make Fertility a Men's Issue, Too - AOL

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    Murphy added that some people get pregnant by partners with sperm counts of 10 million per milliliter or less, so the lack of a red-line on a SpermCheck test is not a final verdict on fertility ...