Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

Bouquet
Mixture of fragrant products without any dominant characteristic note. No longer used in its intangible sense in perfumery.

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

Enfleurage
Former method of cold extraction of the floral products, finalized in Grasse, using the properties of some fat to absorb and hold the nice-smelling molecules. These perfumed creams are then alcoholic washed to give the absolute cream.

Résinoïde
Coniferous product obtained by the treatment in the volatile solvents from certain natural balms, gums and resin, used generally as element of the thorough note.

Tincture
Cold or warm Dissolution of the soluble parts of a solid body by prolonged contact with a liquid, mostly alcoholic.