Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

Base
Elementary olfactory structure. It constitutes a pre-compound element, facilitating to the creator the elaboration of a perfume.

Measure
Determine in the course of creation the best proportions of the various constituents of a mixture.

Extract
Take one or several constituents of a raw material by the employment (use) of different methods: distillation, dissolution, expression, enfleurage, etc. …

Identical Nature (I.N.)
Product obtained in laboratory by chemical reaction of two or several bodies which can be stemming from natural essence or from the other materials without visible report with the perfume shop themselves. It would be false to say or to think that all the synthetic products come purely and simply to supplant the natural products. They offer a wide range of findings smells in the nature or the unknowns of this one. For example the ionone which does not exist in the violet, but the smell of which it exhales however. Synthetic products enrich the palette of the creator of indispensable products and high qualities.

Stability
Property of a perfume a little bit sensitive to the different physical chemical changes.