Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

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

Concentrate
This noun indicates the composition such as it appears at the conclusion of the work of preparation. The concentrated according to their destination are then incorporated into some alcohol: manufacture of Extracts, Toilet Water, etc., or quite other cosmetics or toiletries.

Fixative
Unfit term indicating natural nice-smelling products or synthesis to height molecular weights intended to increase the tenacity of a composition and to prolong in the time its olfactive perception.

Parosmia
Distort perception of the smells.

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