Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

Aroma
Term used especially in the food domain. Organoleptic quality taking taste and smell into account.

Concentrate
This noun indicates the composition such as it appears at the conclusion of the work of preparation. The concentrated according to their destination are then incorporated into some alcohol: manufacture of Extracts, Toilet Water, etc., or quite other cosmetics or toiletries.

Fractionate (To)
To separate by distillation in various parts an essential oil or a synthetic 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.

Blotter
Quality of special paper (without glue), very absorbing, cut in fine strips intended to be dipped into a raw material or a composition and which allows the professionals: chemists, Perfumers-Creators, etc., by olfaction, to appreciate the quality and to follow the evolution by it.