The cages are made from sticks and twine woven together, and for extraction, the sticks are removed from one end of the cage. While a rod is poked through a gap to trap the civet by the neck, a sack is held over the opening to grab the hind legs of the civet.

How Civetone is prepared chemically?

The synthesis of (Z)-civetone (1) is described starting from oleic acid (5) via a series of reactions, intermolecular olefin self-metathesis, bromination/dehydrobromination into acetylene, semi-hydrogenation and intramolecular Dieckmann macrocyclization.

What does Civetone smell like?

The molecule. Civetone is a macrocyclic ketone and the main odorous constituent of civet oil. It is a pheromone sourced from the the overly mentioned African civet. It has a strong musky odor that becomes pleasant at extreme dilutions.