Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

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

Dissolve
Make cross in a liquid the soluble elements of a solid or semi-solid product to obtain a solution.

Head Space
New technique employing a vacuum process for the analysis of the volatile constituents of the fragrant products. This technique is made at three times; in the first place the took of the nice-smelling molecules emitted by the alive or not alive materials, secondly the analysis of the booby-trapped smell of materials, the identification and the quantification of molecules composing it by chromatographic analyses coupled with mass spectrograph, finally the formulation in laboratory with materials of synthesis. We can get faithful reconstructions.

Line
All the by-products of the same smell, marketed under the same naming.

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.