ambergris in A Sentence

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    So how is Ambergris made within the whale?

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    Ambergris is the largest and the most expensive.

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    In fact, King Charles' favorite meal was supposedly eggs and Ambergris.

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    Scientists still don't know for sure the exact origins of Ambergris.

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    The favorite breakfast of English King Charles II was reportedly eggs and Ambergris.

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    In fact, high quality Ambergris can sell for $20 per gram(about $9,000 per pound).

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    Notably, Ambergris, used for centuries in perfumes and as an aphrodisiac, cannot be harvested from a whale.

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    Afterward, the Ambergris spent months- perhaps even slow, forgotten years- lost at sea, slowly transforming as it went.

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    Despite this very prominent reference, among others, Ambergris is still today often mistakenly referred to as whale vomit.

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    As you can imagine, there is a thriving industry in Ambergris hunting, and the competition can be fierce.

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    By some, Ambergris is supposed to be the cause, and by others the effect, of the dyspepsia in the whale.

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    Before I ingest Ambergris, I contacted a few food scientists, just to make sure I wasn't, you know… poisoning myself.

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    Given Ambergris will invariably have squid beaks embedded in it, it was presumably easy enough to put two and two together.

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    Ambergris is a strong smelling, waxy-feeling, whale emission that's been used for centuries by humans in perfumes, medicines, foods and, apparently now, cocktails.

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    One Ambergris dealer, Frenchman Bernard Perrin, however, notes that some perfume companies still occasionally purchase it for use in some of their more exclusive lines.

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    For at that time, and indeed until a comparatively late day, the precise origin of Ambergris remained, like amber itself, a problem to the learned.

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    That said, as previously mentioned, it was once common practice for whalers to harvest the Ambergris from a recently killed whale, if it was present.

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    As you can imagine, there is a thriving industry in Ambergris hunting, and the competition can be fierce, as it was between these two collectors:.

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    The potential that a given entity may have acquired the Ambergris through such a method is perhaps why many governments aren't keen on making it explicitly legal.

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    Synthetic musks have a clean, smooth and sweet scent lacking the fecal/"animalic" notes of natural musks and are sometimes attributed as having notes of blackberry, ambrette or Ambergris.

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    Rising and mingling with curls of steam from the eggs, the familiar odor of Ambergris begins to fill and clog my throat, a thick and unmistakable smell that I can taste.

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    By the time it washes ashore on a remote shoreline, the Ambergris- which is(or was, depending on who you believe) used as a fixative in high-end fragrances- is worth almost as much as gold.

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    Yes, while stories do pop up now and then seeming to indicate it's always a random happy accident when individuals find their lotto ticket of Ambergris washed up on a beach, it usually isn't.

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    I have rubbed a white, aged lump of New Zealand Ambergris about the size of my thumb- a piece worth about $100, or more- across the surface of a cheese grater until I have a spoonful of it.

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    NOW this Ambergris is a very curious substance, and so important as an article of commerce, that in 1791 a certain Nantucket-born Captain Coffin was examined at the bar of the English House of Commons on that subject.

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    Speaking of more modern times, Ambergris was all the rage in various perfumes in the 20th century, with it not only lending its scent to the products, but also reportedly helping the perfume adhere to the skin thanks to its slightly waxy nature.

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    But because it's far more likely the Ambergris was simply found on the beach or the like(and this form is preferred given high quality Ambergris needs to be aged in the ocean), many of these same legal entities(usually) look the other way when it comes to people trading in Ambergris or products that include it.

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    So, for those who have the money and want to indulge in the ultimate decadence of eating or rubbing bits of aged whale excrement on their bodies, Ambergris is still available thanks to the tireless efforts of Ambergris hunters the world over, who no doubt are just a phone call away from getting their own History Channel show.

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    On that note, while it's often claimed that where exactly Ambergris came from is a much more modern discovery(let alone what part of the whale it came from), even for those who failed to note the obscure reference by Zabdiel Boylston, it's surprising they missed Herman Melville in the mid-19th century devoting a full chapter of Moby Dick(Chapter XCII) to it.

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