6/21/2023 0 Comments Ambergris novels![]() ![]() Experts were still guessing its origin thousands of years later, until the long ages of guesswork ended in the 1720’s, when Nantucket whalers found gobs of the costly material inside the stomachs of sperm whales. In the 1851 whaling novel MobyDick, Herman Melville claimed that ambergris was “largely used in perfumery.” But nobody ever knew where it really came from. During the Middle Ages, Europeans used ambergris as a remedy for headaches, colds, epilepsy, and other ailments. For centuries, this substance has also been used as a flavouring for food.ī. ![]() The Arabs knew ambergris as anbar, believing that it is produced from springs near seas. Before 1,000 AD, the Chinese names ambergris as lung sien hiang, “dragon’s spittle perfume,” as they think that it was produced from the drooling of dragons sleeping on rocks at the edge of a sea. Ambergris was used to perfume cosmetics in the days of ancient Mesopotamia and almost every civilization on the earth has a brush with ambergris. ![]()
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