Perfume is a genuine creation, the result of the work of a perfumer. Used since the dawn of time, perfume has passed through the centuries in a host of guises. To take but a few examples, balms in ancient civilizations, potions with divine virtues in the Middle Ages or using perfume for washing in the days of the Sun King.

Perfume is a subtle, harmonious blend, both natural and synthetic. The masculine or feminine fragrance is revealed in three stages: top, middle and base notes. The top note lets light scents come through, such as lemon or bergamot.

In the middle, more pronounced notes emerge, like flowers and fruit. Then come the more general spicy and woody base notes.

The raw materials used to create a perfume are imported from all over the world: Moroccan rose, Madagascan vanilla, or amber from New Caledonia...

Manufacture is mostly automated thanks to two Roxane A and Roxane K and C technology.

Argeville SA has always combined respect for tradition and innovation. State of the art equipment guarantees the organoleptic and physicochemical characteristics of our products :

• Eight gas chromatographs coupled with a flame ionization detector (FID),
• Five gas chromatographs coupled with mass spectrometer detectors,
• A thermodesorber,
• A high-performance liquid chroma- tograph,

• A spectrophotometer,
• Two automatic production lines for analysing density and protection factor,

The research team works in close collaboration with the main analysis companies (Agilent, Thermo Finigan, Perkin Elmer).

Quality lies at the heart of our business at Argeville :

• Quality of products,
• Quality of customer relations,
• Quality of life of the personnel within the particular setting of the Argeville estate,
• To guarantee quality, the business applies the highest professional and moral standards.

Stringent procedures have been implement to offer unchanging quality of both raw materials and aromatic compositions :

• Rigorous quality control carried out at various stages of production,

• Products preserved with nitrogen,
• Traceability of all products,

Every Argeville product :

- Complies with international IFRA standards and the legislation in force in the destination country,

- Has a safety card, an analysis card and an analysis certificate,

- Complies with cosmetics directives.