Enfleurage is a process that uses odorless fats that are solid at room temperature to capture the fragrant compounds exuded by plants. The process can be `cold` enfleurage or `hot` enfleurage. == Process == In cold enfleurage, a large framed plate of glass, called a chassis, is smeared with a layer of animal fat, usually lard or tallow (from p...
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• (n.) 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.
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(from the article `essential oil`) ...reduce the particle size and to rupture some of the cell walls of oil-bearing glands. Steam distillation is by far the most common and important ... ...Treatment of the concrete with a second substance, usually alcohol, leaves the waxes undissolved and provides the concentrated flower oil called ......
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The process of extracting the aromatic essences from plants using odorless fats to absorb the oils from flowers. The fat is then dissolved in alcohol to separate the essence from the fat and distilled to remove the alcohol.
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En`fleu`rage' noun [ French, from
en- (L. in) +
fleur flower.] 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.
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a process of extracting perfumes by exposing inodorous oils or fats to the exhalations of flowers.
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A process for extracting fragrances from flowers which are too delicate to distill or do not yield essential oils by distillation. Flower petals are placed onto a layer of fat or oil for a period of time and then removed. This process is repeated many times. The resulting oil is highly fragrant, and called Pomade.
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