Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

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

Dissonance
Break of harmony between the fragrant notes.

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.

Odour
Volatile substance perceived by the olfactive system. In perfumery applies more particularly to raw materials or notes simple by opposition to smell which applies to the smell more elaborated by a finished product.

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.