Everyone Round to Ben Wishaw's Place

Prepare to be disgusted and intrigued all at once. The debate in our house at present is whether Ambergris is actually Whale Vomit or Whale Poo. Wikipedia as you can see implies that Ambergris is produced "Against the normal flow of digestion" but Cousteau's definitive and eponymous book,while saying that this is a possibility, seems to remain defiantly ambiguous, mentioning that caught whales often yielded the waxy substance from the lower intestine. As the substance is technically edible and practically important in expensive perfume, I think we need a definitive study on the subject. Woods Hole has been informed.