History of the Scent

Mixed with wine it was considered an aphrodisiac it served as defence against the plague and as a medicament for treatment of headaches, chills, epilepsy and other illnesses. Louis XV of France is said to have seasoned his favourite food with ambergris, and Elizabeth 1 of England used ambergris to perfume her gloves. 

However, certainty on the source of ambergris was first obtained with the blossoming of the American whaling industry in Nantucket (Massachusetts) in the 18th century. More and more sperm whales were killed, in the intestines of which lumps of ambergris were found. 

Qln Egypt, ambergris is still used foraromatisation of cigarettes. 

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