Quelques termes liées à la parfumerie :

Bouquet
Mixture of fragrant products without any dominant characteristic note. No longer used in its intangible sense in perfumery.

Emanation
Smell whose gets free spontaneously of a Raw material.

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.

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.

Stability
Property of a perfume a little bit sensitive to the different physical chemical changes.