4. Cuir de Russie
Next on our list of brands that use castoreum in perfumes is Coco Chanel’s extremely popular perfume, Cuir de Russie that uses castoreum to elicit an animalistic response, which is raw as well as rough. And it is not surprising at all, considering that according to Chanel’s biographer, the fragrance was based on Chanel’s affair with Dimitri Pavlovich, who was a Grand Duke and the cousin of Tsar Nicholas II.
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