Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

Anosmia
Absence of the sense of smell.

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.

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.