Perfume Has a Disgusting Secret | Funny History to Fall Asleep To

Somewhere in the mountains of Asia, a tiny deer with vampire fangs is peeing on a bush. Somewhere in your city, a guy is spraying his neck in the bathroom mirror. Same plan. This is the history of perfume: whale poop worth $1.5 million, a Roman who got caught because of his cologne, a perfume capital built on gloves that smelled like pee, Napoleon's two-bottles-a-day habit, and the men's cologne that wildlife scientists use to attract jaguars. Every fact is real, and a surprising number of the famous stories aren't, so those get busted along the way. It starts lively and slowly calms down, so get comfortable. Chapters 0:00 Same guy, same plan 0:43 The Musk Deer: a vampire with a perfume problem 3:05 The Civet: the cat that isn't a cat 4:35 The Beaver: and the vanilla rumor 6:06 Ambergris: whale poop worth a million dollars 8:06 The Silk Moth: and the first love potion ever found 9:39 The Pig: and the spray that farmers use 10:56 Goats, Lemurs & Elephants: the bad dates of the animal kingdom 12:45 Humans: and the sweaty T-shirt study 15:19 Tapputi: the palace perfumer 18:10 Egypt: where even the gods got perfumed 20:47 Cleopatra: and the sails that weren't perfumed 22:38 Rome: where perfume got a man killed 25:20 Baghdad: and the invention of rose water 26:44 The Plague Years: and the apple of ambergris 28:52 Grasse: the town that smelled like pee 31:10 Versailles: the perfumed court 34:11 Napoleon: and the cologne habit 36:04 The Chemists 37:42 Chanel No. 5: and what Marilyn wore to bed 39:36 The Jaguar Cologne 41:08 Axe: and the school bus 42:50 Celebrity Scents 44:33 Your Own Perfume 46:03 How Many Smells? 47:47 Smell: the time machine in your head 49:11 The Shirt on the Pillow Images: public-domain works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0) and Wikimedia Commons. Music: original ambient score. #perfume #history #weirdhistory