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.

Creation
Indicate the process of elaboration of a new product by the perfumer-creator, who appeals at the same moment to his imagination, to its experiment, to the different techniques of searches, and to the evolution of the tendencies; also indicate the composition stemming from this study.

Chilling
Operation which consists in cooling an alcoholic solution in the neighbourhood of 0 Celsius degree so as to facilitate the least soluble haste of substances (vegetable wax) to obtain after filtration the most crystal clear possible product …

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.

Theme
Main agreement, around which the Perfumer develops his creative idea.