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1. Solvents-Volatile fluids used to extract essential oils from flowers and other natural perfume materials.
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2. Specialties:Natural oils, natural isolates or synthetics, either alone or in combination, which are used as building blocks for fragrance compounds. They are less complex than a finished fragrance compound. They may be an end-product of special processing treatments or unique raw materials. They are usually supplied by a single company under a trade name.
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3. Spicy:
Piquant or pungent notes such as clove oil, cinnamon; characteristic of notes of carnation, ginger, lavender or the chemical spicy notes of eugenol or isoeugenol.
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4. Stability
A reasonable length of time for a fragrance to remain stable before the product is affected by certain raw materials, heat, light and air.
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5. Strength-The relative intensity of a fragrance impression.
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6. Sweet
Definition:Can be used to describe a fragrance that has richness and ambrosial characteristics associated with sweet taste.
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7. Synergism
Definition:The ability of certain perfumery ingredients to work together to produce an effect greater than the ingredients could achieve independently.
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8. Synthetics-May be derived or isolated from natural products or manufactured in the laboratory. Some synthetics are superior to the natural in uniformity, stability and availability. Synthetics may be as costly as naturals.
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