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.

Filter (To)
Physical action which consists in holding (retaining) the insoluble particles in suspension in a liquid by means of a filter: paper, asbestos, tissue, etc. …

Organ
Term abstracts used to put in evidence the variety and the extent of raw materials or basic elements used by the perfumer.

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.