Perfume Vocabulary Archives

Sillage by Lalique, 2012 edition - a representation of the olfactory pyramid and trail left behind by Lalique extrait. "Sillage" is the French term for "trail".  It designates the olfactory impression left behind one's person who is wearing a fragrance...

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a "flanker" in markting terminology is "An extension product, such as a diet version of a soft drink or a liquid version of a detergent, added to a line to support the sales...

Faguenat, Fagana...FugFaguenat, Faganat are two very interesting words as they are all but forgotten in contemporary French, omitted by the contemporary dictionaries I checked, yet have rich, precise and diverse historic meanings in the field of historical olfaction. In this...

A linear perfume is one that is like a lady dressed in a fur coat wearing nothing underneath who flashes it open revealing everything and strikes the same pose overtime, unafraid to catch cold.This type of perfume is generally...

When Tom Ford launched his Private Blend collection of twelve fragrances last spring he titled one of his perfumes, Moss Breches, which immediately lent to speculation on the part of native English speakers that it might, perhaps, be related...

One of the two latest perfume launches by Comptoir Sud Pacifique, Eau de Naphé, resurrects an interesting exotic and slightly mysterious ancient perfume expression which in the 19th and 20th centuries means "orange blossom water". You will find the...

  A lécythiophile (masc.) or less commonly, lécythomyrophile, is a word employed in French and English (without the accent) to designate a miniature perfume bottle collector. "Lécythiophile" literally means the friend of the lécythe (masc.) from ancient Greek lekythos, which used...