Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

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

Dissonance
Break of harmony between the fragrant notes.

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.

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.

Support
Indicate certain products, such as the ethylic alcohol, or a product to cosmetic custom, soap, talc, etc., intended to put a perfume in value.