Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

Still
Apparatus for steam distillation.

Preservative Agent
Chemical agent sometimes added to a composition to delay the effects of oxidation.

Head Space
New technique employing a vacuum process for the analysis of the volatile constituents of the fragrant products. This technique is made at three times; in the first place the took of the nice-smelling molecules emitted by the alive or not alive materials, secondly the analysis of the booby-trapped smell of materials, the identification and the quantification of molecules composing it by chromatographic analyses coupled with mass spectrograph, finally the formulation in laboratory with materials of synthesis. We can get faithful reconstructions.

Rectify (To)
Clear by distillation a raw material of its impurities.

Theme
Main agreement, around which the Perfumer develops his creative idea.