Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A process in making perfume in which odorless fats or oils absorb the fragrance of fresh flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of extracting delicate perfumes from flowers by the agency of inodorous fats.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process of extracting
fragrance fromflowers by using unscentedfats to capture theessential oils .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Also, the resistance which the fat content of the bean offers to the wetting of the coffee, and the persistency of the "enfleurage" action of the fat in retaining the caffeol, are less with hot than with cold water.
All About Coffee 1909
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The first modern-day distillation of essential oil was performed by the Persian philosopher Avicenna (980-1037 A.D.) who extracted the essence of rose petals through the 'enfleurage' process.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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The first modern-day distillation of essential oil was performed by the Persian philosopher Avicenna (980-1037 A.D.) who extracted the essence of rose petals through the 'enfleurage' process.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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It was then and there that she decided to resort to enfleurage, the old process, the method her Papa had used.
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In enfleurage, petals are laid out on trays of fat, where they are allowed to remain until the fat has absorbed most of the fragrance.
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Tea readily absorbs the aroma of the flowers, and so this process is much like enfleurage with tea instead of fat; and withouth the alcohol washing in the end, of course!
Archive 2009-02-01 Ayala Sender 2009
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The process is very similar to enfleurage, only it is tea leaves that soak the fragrance of the flowers, rather than animal fat.
Archive 2009-06-01 Ayala Sender 2009
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The process is very similar to enfleurage, only it is tea leaves that soak the fragrance of the flowers, rather than animal fat.
Tea and Perfume: Time is of Essence Ayala Sender 2009
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Tea readily absorbs the aroma of the flowers, and so this process is much like enfleurage with tea instead of fat; and withouth the alcohol washing in the end, of course!
Victoria Tea Festival Ayala Sender 2009
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Image credit: Frankincense tree from enfleurage.com posted by Marina Geigert
The Desert King: Tauer Perfumes Incense Extreme Marina Geigert 2008
whichbe commented on the word enfleurage
Featured in the novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
May 14, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word enfleurage
Usage/historical note on maceration.
December 5, 2016