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.

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.

Oxidation
Perfume chemical reaction by contact with the oxygen atmosphere.

Spectrometry
Physical method of analysis which complements chromatography in studying and testing elements, used in perfumery.