![]() With time, it becomes more refined and releases rounder, more fragrant notes, quite close to tobacco (even if its animal character remains perfectly identifiable). Just harvested, the block gives off strong scents of horse manure or dung. Finally, be careful not to confuse ambergris with amber plant which is a fossilized resin from trees.Īmbergris is a complex fragrance that intensifies with age. ![]() We easily recognize the contribution of the sea on this block. Conversely, the white amber is the hardest and tends to more saline and iodine notes. Commonly, ambergris is classified under 3 types of color: in order black, gray and white. Black is the freshest, the one that is closest to the fecal notes of the animal. It can be round or irregular, detached in the form of what is called “kidney” or complete, weighing a few grams as several hundred pounds, and especially have very different colors depending on its maturation. THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF AMBERĮach block is unique in its kind, as much for its size, its color, its composition as for the smell it gives off. You will need a perfect knowledge of the currents and tides, the movements of the cetacean, a good nose and success to hope to find it. So the vast majority of the harvest is done on the coast, in the form of a block that looks like a simple pebble. Also, even if we find residues of amber in all the oceans, it is almost impossible to meet it in its liquid form. Originally viscous and liquid, the mass fossilizes over time helped by the joint action of the sun and the sea. But some scientists have recently questioned this theory and consider that it comes from its excrement. If it is commonly referred to as sperm whale vomit, it is primarily because specialists believe that ambergris is a puke of the animal. It is a very fragrant material, solid, fatty and flammable. It is commonly referred to as “sperm whale vomit” from which ambergris gets its nickname. This animal material is very difficult to identify and to know where to find it requires a perfect knowledge of winds and tides as well as a developed sense of smell. In order to protect itself, the cetacean produces an agglomerate that it rejects in the sea. ![]() Following a defensive mechanism, they reject any foreign body harmful to their organism, in particular the beaks of cuttlefish which come to lodge in their intestine. ![]() A rare and invaluable substance, it is estimated that only 1% of the sperm whale population produces it. Secondly, because it is an intestinal concretion of a giant of the seas: the sperm whale or Physeter macrocephalus. Firstly, because it is one of the 6 materials of animal origin used in perfumery (with civet, musk, beeswax, castoreum and hyraceum). Ambergris is like a UFO among sourced materials. ![]()
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