Best perfume: Fragnant extracts

Although fragnant extracts are known to the general public as the generic term "essential oils", a more specific language is used in the fragnance industry to describe the source, purity, and technique used to obtain a particular fragnant extract. Of these extracts, only absolutes, essential oils, and tinctures are directly used to formulate perfumes.

- Absolute

Fragnant materials that are purified from a pommade or concrete by soaking them in ethanol. By using a slightly hydrophilic compound such as ethanol, most of the fragnant compounds from waxy source materials can be extracted without dissolving any of the fragrantless waxy molecules. Absolutes are usually found in the form of an oily liquid.

- Concrete

Fragnant materials that have been extracted from raw materials through solvent extraction using volatile hydrocarbons. Concretes usually contain a large ammount of wax due to the ease in which the solvents dissolve various hydrophobic compounds. As such concretes are usually further purified through distillation or etanol based solvent extraction. Concretes are typically either waxy or resinous solids or thick oily liquids.

- Essential oil

Fragnant materials that have been extracted from a source material directly through distillation or expression and obtained in the form of an oily liquid. Oils extracted through expression are sometimes called expression oils.

- Pomade

A fragnant mass of solid fat created from the enfleurage process, in which odorous compounds in raw materials are adsorbed into animal fats. Pommades are found in the form of an oily and sticky solid.

- Tincture

Franant materials produced by directly soaking and infusing raw materials in ethanol. Tinctures are typically thin liquids.