a substance, extract, or preparation for diffusing or imparting an agreeable or attractive smell, especially a fluid containing fragrant natural oils extracted from flowers, woods, etc., or similar synthetic oils.
the scent, odor, or volatile particles emitted by substances that smell agreeable.
verb (used with object),per·fumed,per·fum·ing.
(of substances, flowers, etc.) to impart a pleasant fragrance to.
to impregnate with a sweet odor; scent.
Origin of perfume
First recorded in 1525–35; earlier parfume (noun), from Middle French parfum, noun derivative of parfumer (verb), from obsolete Italian parfumare (modern profumare). See per-, fume
SYNONYMS FOR perfume
1 essence, attar, scent; incense.
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ANTONYMS FOR perfume
2 stench.
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synonym study for perfume
2. Perfume,aroma,fragrance all refer to agreeable odors. Perfume often indicates a strong, rich smell, natural or manufactured: the perfume of flowers.Fragrance is usually applied to fresh, delicate, and delicious odors, especially from growing things: fragrance of new-mown hay.Aroma is restricted to a somewhat spicy smell: the aroma of coffee.
She tells us that her love affair with fragrances began while watching her mother apply perfumes as a child.
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That may explain why they made up more than 80 percent of the perfumes in every ice sample, says Vecchiato.
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Trends in the perfumes and PAHs mirror the ups and downs of human activities near Mount Elbrus.
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To make room, some are selling excess stocks in bulk to distilleries at a deep discount to be turned into—ouch—hand sanitizer and perfume.
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Although it’s not the same experience as walking into a Chanel store, people still want to buy their perfume and have that delivered to them safely and conveniently.
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Perfume bottles and weathered papyrus replicas gather dust in the grubby window displays of the empty shops.
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Before sending it she rubbed her perfume on it like a magical charm.
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But the flower I lifted from the table was fresh and fragile and filled the air with perfume.
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He reached up to the front seat, took my hand by the wrist and rubbed the perfume from his palm to mine.
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Abu Hassar nodded and took a small vial of perfume from his Adidas sweatshirt.
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The name by which the fruit was known to the Greeks indicates its size; with the Latins its name was symbolic of its perfume.
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THE generality of naturalists are of opinion that the perfume called civet, or musk, is furnished only by one species of animals.
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And I have yet to find one that has an odor that could be called a perfume.
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There were exquisite wafts of perfume from hidden flowers breathing their dreams to the night.
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It smells of warm leather, moist beast, and a little of her own perfume too.
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British Dictionary definitions for perfume
perfume
noun (ˈpɜːfjuːm)
a mixture of alcohol and fragrant essential oils extracted from flowers, spices, etc, or made synthetically, used esp to impart a pleasant long-lasting scent to the body, stationery, etcSee also cologne, toilet water
a scent or odour, esp a fragrant one
verb (pəˈfjuːm)
(tr)to impart a perfume to
Word Origin for perfume
C16: from French parfum, probably from Old Provençal perfum, from perfumar to make scented, from per through (from Latin) + fumar to smoke, from Latin fumāre to smoke