#also wine companies letting cat pee go unregulatec is so gross

[taviokapudding]

I was today years old when I found out Toxoplasma gondii might be partly responsible for why Chanel no 5 perfume is popular.

So tldr if it's made of fully natural ingredients, that perfume will contain the scraped sexual pheromones from the perianal gland of the civet cat.

So low key people who like that perfume might unknowingly have the parasite or been exposed to the parasite enough times to find Chanel no5, other perfumes in the same scent family, as well some wines enjoyable.

The fact it's technically not illegal is super messed up but might also explain why my dad I hate Chanel no 5- it smells so bad to us. We like cats but we're both allergic vs my mom loved that perfume and {despite hating cats} always makes friends with cats. In short, I need to get her tested and if you know somebody or you are super into smells that use phermone ingredient {even the synthetic replica}, you should get tested for the parasite as a precaution.