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Salary up to 50,000 euros for a little whale vomit

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An 8 year old boy in England expect to win between 12 and 50 thousand euros for a strange object found by chance on the beach: resembled petrified bread, but eventually proved to hold, an expensive aromatic compounds excreted by sperm whales.

Little Charlie Neismith discovered the hold on the south coast of England and took it home without knowing what it is, says the local newspaper Bournemouth Echo. With the help of his parents, he found that the object of 600 grams sold to 60 euros a gram.

The hold is a waxy substance that accumulates in the intestines of sperm whales and is believed to help hard materials, such as squid beaks that eat the whale, go through the digestive tract without causing injuries.

Known as "whale vomit", the aromatic Ampara sometimes eliminated from the whale's mouth, but usually comes out the other end of the animal.

The fresh sea smell Ampara and feces, but when matured for a few months floating in the water acquires a perfume called that resembles smoke, old wood or alcohol without the raciness.

Known from ancient Egypt and China, the hold used in perfumery as an aphrodisiac, or even as a spice.

Herman Melville spent even an entire chapter of "Moby Dick" in Ampara and reputation in the 19th century.

In perfumery, the hold and the Ambergris, a substance isolated from ambergris, used mainly as a fixative and not as the main flavoring ingredient.

Given that sperm whales are an endangered species, and the marketing of products from blower banned in many countries, has now been replaced ambergris in perfumery with other substances such as laudanum.

Despite the illegality perfume, demand for ambergris remains high, and a significant part of global production trafficked by a "mafia" of the seas.


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