Perfume

Noun

 * 1) A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.
 * 2) A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.

Verb

 * 1)  To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

Adjectives for Perfume
delicate; sweet; enchanted; native; well-remembered; swooning; drowsy; overpowering; excellent; faint; melodic; exquisite; powerful; delectable; floating; rhetorical; soft; pungent; intoxicating; haunting; filthy; lingering; rich; poisoned; attractive; dead; exotic.

Verbs for Perfume
anoint with—; dab—; distill—; douse with—; drench with—; emit—; exude—; haunt by—; inhale—; recognize—; reek with—; saturate in—; spray with—; steep in—; waft—; —clings; —delights; —exudes; — floods; —nauseates; —offends; —oppresses; —overcomes; —overwhelms; —pervades; — pleases; —scents; —tints.

Adverbs for Perfume
exquisitely; exotically; sweetly; delectably; intoxicatingly; hauntingly; richly; lingeringly; voluptuously.

Thesaurus
extract, fixative, fluidize, fractionate, fragrance, fragrancy, fruitiness, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, heliotrope, hydrogenate, incense, jasmine oil, lavender oil, musk, muskiness, myrcia oil, myrrh, nose, nosegay, odor, odorize, oxygenate, parfum, perfumery, redolence, reek, rose oil, scent, send out, smell, smoke, spice, spiciness, spray, steam, sublimate, sublime, sweet savor, sweet smell, thurify, toilet water, vaporize, volatile oil, volatilize, aerate, aerify, ambergris, ambrosia, aroma, aromatic, aromatic gum, aromatic water, aromatize, atomize, attar, attar of roses, balm, balm of Gilead, balminess, balsam, bay oil, bergamot oil, bouquet, carbonate, cense, champaca oil, chlorinate, civet, distill, embalm, emit, essence, essential oil, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exhale,

Etymology
From parfum, from the obsolete  parfumare, to smoke through

Pronunciation

 * , /"p3:fju:m/
 * pûr'fyo͞om",, /"p3`fju:m/ or pər-fyoo͞m', /pɚˈfjuːm/, /p@`"fju:m/

Synonyms

 * aroma, fragrance, scent
 * fragrance, scent

Derived terms

 * perfumelike
 * perfumey

Related terms

 * perfumed
 * perfumery

Noun

 * Arabic: أريج
 * Armenian: անուշահոտություն, բուրմունք
 * Catalan: perfum,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 香味, 芬郁,  芳澤,  芳泽,  芬香,  香氣,  香气
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, odeur
 * German:, Geruch
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 香り,
 * Korean: (香氣)
 * Luxembourgish: Doft, Geroch
 * Macedonian: арома
 * Norwegian: duft, aroma, godlukt
 * Old English: æþelstenċ, wyrtbrǣþ
 * Portuguese: cheiro, odor
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: mùi thơm


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 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: perfum,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: (香水)
 * Latin: unguentum,
 * Luxembourgish: Parfum
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay: minyak wangi, minyak attar
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: wyrtġemang
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: vôňa,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: parfym
 * Tok Pisin: sanda
 * Vietnamese: nước thơm

Verb

 * Bulgarian: парфюмирам
 * Dutch: parfumeren
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: בישם
 * Italian:
 * Luxembourgish: parfüméieren


 * Macedonian: намирисува, парфимира
 * Polish: perfumować
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: душить (dušít’), надушить (nadušít’)
 * Slovene: parfumirati
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: xịt nước thơm (vào)

Noun

 * 1) perfume

Synonyms

 * olor
 * aroma
 * fragancia

Related terms

 * perfumar
 * perfumería
 * perfumero
 * perfumista