" Indeed, some of our favorite scents cannot be found in nature: several musks (traditionally an extract from a gland of the Himalayan musk deer), ambers (a blend of resins) and lemons, as well as "at least two crucial lily-of-the-valley components.

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The smell hits you on the first floor, a metallic stench of synthetic deer musk.

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They spray deer musk in big cat enclosures, and freeze a polar bear's fish supper in blocks of ice.

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No. 6 was inspired by the deer musk I smelled and contains several natural ingredients, something that has been very popular lately in the U.S. Fragrances that use only natural ingredients offer pure, intense, true scents, sometimes at astonishingly high prices.

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