Product Description
This is 0.375grms of MUSK: Chinese Wild deer musk - black grains 1cc derived from the wild deer musk from China without killing the deer: This black grains deer musk was extracted from the Musk Pods. If you like the deer musk pods as a whole, we can sell you that too. The whole musk pod weight consist of the little fur, the pod skin and the black grains itself. (see picture of the deer musk pod ) We also have the Siberian Wild deer musk - black grains 1cc. Let us know if you want the Siberian's one.
Musk is the secretion of the musk scent sac - the preputial gland--of male musk deer (Muschus spp., Feng et al., 1981, Ying, 1990). Main ingredient of musk is muscone. Male musk deer start to secret musk at the ago of one and half years old and continue the secretion until the age of 17 years old, the peak secretion is between 3~10 years old (Green, 1989, Sheng et al., 1993). Average weight of musk pods is 15 g, a male musk deer produce 8.4g musk per year. Musk is used by male musk deer to mark their territories and as a sexual pheromone to attract females during breeding seasons (Yang and Feng, 1998). For thousands of years, musk is used as scents and traditional medicine in middle East, India sub-continent and Far East, in Europe musk is used as an ingredient for making high-class perfumes (Green, 1983). There are 398 patented Chinese medicines using musk as an ingredient. Musk is an issue that links the natural conservation, economics, international trade, traditional medicine, domestic and international law as well as biology.
The price is inclusive of a 9 to 15 days delivery of standard air mail to anywhere in the world. We are wholeseller for Ambergriss, Aloeswood, Santolum Album/Sandal wood, deer musks, frankinscene from Oman and pure Yemeni's Honey. We provide wholesale price for bigger quantities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Jun-06-09 at 16:11:43 PDT, seller added the following information: Take note that 1cc = 0.375g will be sent in a small glass bottle. TQ