Comment by gxqoz

Heh: "Tryon, for example, denounced musk, 'the dearest of stinks', as 'an excrementitious matter - or the fume or froth proceeding from a fierce, fiery, violent-natured creature'. Had it been scarce, he said, hog's dung would have been equally sought after; as it was, some people esteemed cows' dung as 'a good perfume'."