(Castor, Civet cat, A fatty substance with a musklike scent which is secreted by a gland near the genitals of a civet, a deer, or a beaver. This substance is also used in making perfumes.) In a dream, a civet represents honourable profits or valuable properties, botanical gardens, a school from which one can acquire knowledge and draw benefits, or a business from which one can make profits, or it could mean a profitable leather trade. If one prepares the civet on fire in the dream, it means that he is preparing amber perfume, musk, or aloe perfume that is extracted from the aromatic heartwood of the mezereum tree family.