Pat Thomas, general curator for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo, discusses the recent discovery that big cats—cheetahs, jaguars and tigers, who are well known for their obsession about scent—love the smell of Calvin Klein’s Obsession for Men cologne. The scent is now widely used in zoos and the findings are even changing how large felines are studied in the field.
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Comments [3]
Actually, YSL Kouros contrains a lot of civet notes - extracted from cat's butt, I think. My Korat cat (single coat cats from Thailand, decendents of Malay jungle cats) goes crazy around it, and not in a good way.
NOTE: Most musks in commercial products are synthetics -- NOT actually derived from animal sources. But they apparently do the job anyway. And, yes, they are quite safe.
Has Calvin Klein’s Obsession been tested on rats or monkeys to make sure its safe for big cats?
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