Alie Ward

So our editor, Jake Chafee's partner, Joey, had a question and wanted to know, quote, are any other big cats communists?

This is a very serious question.

Mish the Fish, Elizabeth Stelle, Dr. Lena Carpenter, Nita Chen, Lauren Cooper would love to know, do they like catnip?

Elizabeth asked, do they encounter catnip in the wild and get silly?

Any idea?

Oh, it's like a quaalude.

Amazing.

I have heard that there might be like civet.

What is it?

What is it called?

Yeah.

Is there a scent gland in there?

So who's in charge of figuring out what scent would make a tiger want to kill your mother?

It turns out it's Pat Thomas, a guy who worked at the Bronx Zoo as the general curator of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

So looking for enrichment options, Pat went out, got a bunch of different perfumes and colognes in 2005.

And of all of them, Calvin Klein's obsession for men had these wild animals going feral.

rubbing up on it like it was their long-lost high school sweetheart.

Since then, it's been a staple for biologists who just spritz some obsession on camera traps to lure shy, stealthy cats out of the jungle for their close-up.

So one perfumer that was involved in the creation of this obsession for men is Anne Gottlieb, who told The Guardian,

newspaper that the scent is, quote, a combination of this lickable vanilla heart married to this fresh green top note.