Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

Accord
Effect obtains by the mix of two or many first material or simple note. It harmony depend of the equilibrium of proportions and the intensity olfactive of each one.

Distil (To)
Pull in the steam to collect the nice-smelling elements (essential oil) contained in certain natural raw materials.

Fixative
Unfit term indicating natural nice-smelling products or synthesis to height molecular weights intended to increase the tenacity of a composition and to prolong in the time its olfactive perception.

Odour
Volatile substance perceived by the olfactive system. In perfumery applies more particularly to raw materials or notes simple by opposition to smell which applies to the smell more elaborated by a finished product.

Transfer
We say about a perfume that it turned when its smell and its colour modified following physical actions, or chemical (oxidation) owed to the air, to the light, to the heat or to the ageing.