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Funnily enough that's their main purpose throughout history, and while people always gave some medicinal properties attached to it (probably because before industrialization it would take even more work to extract the stuff), it's always been used for perfumes.
I can forgive a medieval peasant who believes in miasma theory for thinking that the smelly grease is healing. Idk what excuse these weirdos will come up with tho