4 stinky ingredients that make your perfume smell incredible

You spend thousands on a bottle of perfume sitting on your dresser. But what if we said that your perfumer is probably using some stinky ingredients to help you smell good? Yes, you heard that right. Perfumers have spent centuries chasing the worst smells on earth because, diluted and blended just right, they turn into the very thing that makes you smell unforgettable, in the best way. Vinniit Aroraa, an Indian perfumer and the founder of RAD LVNG, explains four ingredients that smell revolting on their own but become the backbone of some of the world’s most expensive fragrances.Musk grainYou may want to sit down for this: the expensive musk smell comes from the musk pod of the male musk deer. That pod is a scent gland in a hair-covered sac on the abdomen, near the genitals. Most often, musk deer are hunted or killed for these glands.