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usually uncountable, plural enfleurages
The process of extracting fragrance (essential oils) from flowers by using unscented wax or fat, then extracting with alcohol. quotations examples
‘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
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