Perfume

Quick meaning: Perfume is a noun meaning A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.

Meaning

A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.

More Meanings

1. (perfumery) A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.
2. (transitive) To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

Example Sentences

She bought a perfume at the airport.

Among the Turks, an exciting compound consists of olibanum, myrrh, camphor, musk, in pulverized form. The resultant perfume is said to affect the genitals.

The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial, but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.

The market for prestige perfumes is pretty much restricted to what industry economists call “gotrocks ladies”—women in households with annual incomes over $40,000 and who are over forty but still young enough to have a sense of smell (Elizabeth Taylor, for instance).

Word Forms

• perfumes
• perfuming
• perfumed

Synonyms for perfume

Depending on context, synonyms include aroma, fragrance, scent, parfum, essence, aromatize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aromatize, fragrance, aroma, scent, essence, fragrant.

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