Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

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

Measure
Determine in the course of creation the best proportions of the various constituents of a mixture.

Infusion
In fragrances, the verb to infuse means putting in prolonged contact (sometimes several years) a solid with a liquid to dissolve it in cold the soluble parts (example: musk, amber, chive, oak moss)

Rectify (To)
Clear by distillation a raw material of its impurities.

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.