enfleurage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of enfleurage
1850–55; < French, equivalent to enfleur ( er ) to impregnate with scent of flowers ( en- en- 1 + -fleurer, derivative of fleur flower ) + -age -age
Example Sentences
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And it takes ancient skills and a Merlin's genius to produce just the right oils once the flower is ripe for its "enfleurage."
From Time Magazine Archive
They are finished off, however, by the process of enfleurage, in which the frames before alluded to are made use of.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
They are treated by maceration and enfleurage, chiefly the latter.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
Tuberose.—One of the most exquisite odors with which we are acquainted is obtained by enfleurage from the tuberose flower.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus
The flowers are worked up at the factory directly they arrive by the enfleurage process.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
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