Love my perfume, ....love smelling good... but I was in awe and disgusted when I learned what used to go into the making of my Chanel No.5 perfume; the musk from Civets.
Disgusted not because the ingredient came from an animal but because I knew that there wouldn't have been a humane way to extract the musk.
Well, Civet is a common name for a species of dozen or more small mammals that have a cat-like appearance but with an extended muzzle.
The perineal glands of the male and female civets produce the prized musk, perfume makers would kill the animals to harvest the musk. These days, I read that they scrape the musk from the living animal (apparently that is deemed as humane). Imagine that. Awful. We humans, we spare nothing.
Perineal - area around the genitals and anus.
Indian civet Image from program.wcs.org
Banded palm civet Image from factzoo.com
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