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enfleurage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌɑ̃.fluˈɹɑʒ/ (UK, US)

Etymology

Borrowed from French enfleurage.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The process of extracting fragrance (essential oils) from flowers by using unscented wax or fat, then extracting with alcohol.
   • I was set on developing a lilac enfleurage from my own shrub. 2024 May 10, Lily Stewart, “A love letter to lilacs and the joys of fleeting pleasure”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
   • The perfumes of plants like jasmine could only be extracted by enfleurage, as other methods of the time would denature the scents.
   • ‘Thereʼs a man in Somerset who claims heʼs invented a method of enfleurage that requires no alcohol.’ 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 652:

Forms

Deriveds

absolute of enfleurage

Relateds

fat washing

Translations (4)

mk анфлера́жа (the process of extracting fragrance from flowers) · es enfloraje (the process of extracting fragrance from flowers) · es maceración (the process of extracting fragrance from flowers) · fr enfleurage (the process of extracting fragrance from flowers)