Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

AFNOR
Abbreviation of “French Association of Normalization”. It establishes and publishes, among others, standards on essential oil.

Diffusion
Dispersal of a smell in the atmosphere.

Extract
Take one or several constituents of a raw material by the employment (use) of different methods: distillation, dissolution, expression, enfleurage, etc. …

Natural product
Product already existing in the nature, vegetables, animals.

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.