Device for storing and releasing a fragrance, and set of such devices
AssigneeChanel Parfums Beaute
InventorsCédric Mallochet, Christopher Sheldrake, Gaelle Madiot
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Abstract
The device for presenting a given fragrance comprises a presenting rod (10) in a confining enclosure (20), this confining enclosure comprising a collar (21) and this presenting rod comprising a porous portion (11) loaded with this fragrance and designed to fit through this collar, and another portion forming a head (12) suitable for grasping and designed to close this collar in a rest configuration such that the porous portion is, inside this confining enclosure, in a region where the fragrance exists in the gaseous state only, the constituent materials of the presenting rod underneath the head and those of the confining enclosure having no smell of their own.
Claims17
1-15. (canceled)
A device for storing and releasing fragrance, comprising a presentation stick in a confining enclosure,
- wherein said confining enclosure comprises a neck, and said presentation stick comprises:
- i) a porous portion laden with said fragrance and adapted to pass through said neck, and
- ii) a holding head adapted to plug said neck in a resting configuration such that the porous portion is located inside said confining enclosure in a zone where the fragrance exists only in a gaseous state,
- further wherein a portion of the presentation stick below the holding head comprises material having no odor of its own, and the confining enclosure comprises material having no odor of its own.
A method for storing and releasing fragrances, comprising the following steps:
- preparing a plurality of presentation devices, each comprising:
- a presentation stick in a respective confining enclosure,
- wherein said confining enclosure comprises a neck, and said presentation stick comprises:
- i) a porous portion adapted to pass through said neck, and
- ii) a holding head adapted to plug said neck, in a resting configuration, such that the porous portion is located inside said confining enclosure,
- further wherein a portion of the presentation stick below the holding head comprises material having no odor of its own, and the confining enclosure comprises material having no odor of its own;
- loading each of the presentation sticks with a fragrance and placing each presentation stick in said resting configuration in said respective confining enclosure,
- wherein the porous portion is located inside said respective confining enclosure in a region where the fragrance exists only in a gaseous state;
- extracting a series of presentation sticks in succession, and marking said presentation sticks by fitting said presentation sticks back into the respective confining enclosures in the resting configuration;
- and
- extracting in succession least some of said marked presentation sticks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.