A rare, waxy material called ambergris — known as “floating gold,” it’s something of a treasure in the fragrance industry — can elevate the scents and notes of a perfume or cologne. Ambergris is ...

A man in England quickly found out that it s worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. In Google I put whale vomit, said Ken Wilman. As soon as I saw the pictures of it I came straight back down to the ...

The idea of daubing ambergris, or whale vomit, on your skin probably doesn't sound too appealing but women and men have been doing it for a very long time. Now they may not have to. Canadian ...

Ambergris, that versatile sperm whale excretion that Herman Melville wrote so prodigiously about when the ocean was just a Dave & Buster’s for murdering sperm whales, can be a pretty valuable ...

One couple scored big when they came across a smelly find that could bring in more than $70,000. Gary and Angela Williams were walking on a beach in the United Kingdom when they smelled a foul odor, ...

Ken Wilman was walking his dog Madge in the coastal town of Morecambe in northwest England when she began "poking at a rather large stone" with a waxy texture and yellowish colour. At first he left it ...

A father and son are hoping for a big payout after finding a smelly lump of what could be incredibly precious whale vomit on the beach. Alan Derrick, 67, and his son Tom, 39, were walking on Sand ...

The Thane Police in Maharashtra on Thursday said that it arrested three persons after ambergris, commonly called 'whale vomit' or 'grey amber', worth more than Rs 85 lakh was recovered from them in ...

The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajkot City Police on Thursday said they seized Rs 2.97 crore worth of Ambergris (sperm ...