Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

Amber
Animal substance called ambergris resulting pathological concretions formed in the stomach of sperm whales.

Creation
Indicate the process of elaboration of a new product by the perfumer-creator, who appeals at the same moment to his imagination, to its experiment, to the different techniques of searches, and to the evolution of the tendencies; also indicate the composition stemming from this study.

Fragrance
By opposition to the smell which can be pleasant or unpleasant, this French word of Latin origin translates the pleasant smell of a fragrant product.

Perfume (or Flavor)
Product the most concentrated and generally the richest in a defined line.

Transfer
We say about a perfume that it turned when its smell and its colour modified following physical actions, or chemical (oxidation) owed to the air, to the light, to the heat or to the ageing.