ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,008, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to EXPRESSIONS PARFUMEES (Grasse, France).

"Natural semi-solid perfume" was invented by Christophe Marin (Nice, France), Jennifer Buzzi (Grasse, France) and Juliette Sery (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perfumed composition in a solid or semi-solid form, where the composition includes from 5 to 40% by weight of the total weight of the perfume composition, and from 10 to 15% by weight of the total weight of the trihydroxystearin composition. The composition includes a solvent, preferably triethyl citrate. One or more embodiments relate to the field of perfumes and perfumed composi...