Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

Aerosol
Method of instantly dispersing of different products, including perfumes, which uses a pressurized system.

Dominant
It is the most perceptible note in the olfactive point of view in a composition; ex: a floral note with dominant jasmine.

Enfleurage
Former method of cold extraction of the floral products, finalized in Grasse, using the properties of some fat to absorb and hold the nice-smelling molecules. These perfumed creams are then alcoholic washed to give the absolute cream.

Parosmia
Distort perception of the smells.

Blotter
Quality of special paper (without glue), very absorbing, cut in fine strips intended to be dipped into a raw material or a composition and which allows the professionals: chemists, Perfumers-Creators, etc., by olfaction, to appreciate the quality and to follow the evolution by it.