Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

AFNOR
Abbreviation of “French Association of Normalization”. It establishes and publishes, among others, standards on essential oil.

Concrete
Solid or semi-solid product obtained after extraction of the nice-smelling principles of some natural raw materials such as Jasmine, Rose, etc., by some volatile solvent, ether of petroleum, Benzene.

Chilling
Operation which consists in cooling an alcoholic solution in the neighbourhood of 0 Celsius degree so as to facilitate the least soluble haste of substances (vegetable wax) to obtain after filtration the most crystal clear possible product …

Identical Nature (I.N.)
Product obtained in laboratory by chemical reaction of two or several bodies which can be stemming from natural essence or from the other materials without visible report with the perfume shop themselves. It would be false to say or to think that all the synthetic products come purely and simply to supplant the natural products. They offer a wide range of findings smells in the nature or the unknowns of this one. For example the ionone which does not exist in the violet, but the smell of which it exhales however. Synthetic products enrich the palette of the creator of indispensable products and high qualities.

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.