Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

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

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.

Express
Extract by pressure the essential oil contained mainly in the peels of citrus fruits.

Résinoïde
Coniferous product obtained by the treatment in the volatile solvents from certain natural balms, gums and resin, used generally as element of the thorough note.

Solution
Homogeneous liquid containing a dissolved body; preparation diluted with certain nice-smelling products or of concentrated by perfume (alcoholic solution).