Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansgfield and civet cats

Virginia Woolf remarked of Katherine Mansfield that she smelt like a "civet cat that had taken to streetwalking" so I wondered whether that was a bad thing or a good thing.  That ingredient of scent used to made from the anal glands of civet cats, but is now mainly synthesised (I imagine its harvest was equally traumatic for the "cat" and the collector, as civets are related to skunks and the scent collected is only pleasant when well diluted). You can still buy perfumes with civet in - Google says Giorgio Aranani in Boots has civet but I think that's wistful thinking on the part of Google. There are a number of perfumes with civet though on fragantia.com including this one which caught my eye from Opus oils. Interesting that a perfume I really like - Coco Chanel - has civet base notes.