Kopi Luwak also widely gathered in the forest or produced in the farms in the islands of the Philippines (where the product is called "kape motit" in the Cordillera region, "kapé alamíd" in Tagalog areas, and "kapé melô" or "kapé musang" in Mindanao island), and in East Timor (where it is called "kafé-laku"). "Weasel coffee" is a loose English translation of its Vietnamese name "cà phê Chồn". The origin of kopi luwak is closely connected with the history of coffee production in Indonesia. In the early 18th century the Dutch established the cash-crop coffee plantations in their colony in the Dutch East
Civet (perfumery) noninfectious. The name derives from the Arabic "zabād" or "sinnawr al-zabād", civet cat ("Viverra civetta"), by way of Old Italian "zibetto" and Middle French "civette". The 10th century Arab historian al-Masudi mentioned civet ("zabāda") as a spice in his book "Murūdj al-dhahab" (Meadows of Gold). Civet was among the many trade items that caravans, controlled by the Ghana empires, carried from the Niger valley to North Africa. Civet (perfumery) Civet ("Zibeth"; "Zibet"; "Zibetum"), also known as civet musk, is the glandular secretion produced by both sexes of Viverridae species. A number of viverrid species secrete civet oil in their perineal