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US
/pɝfˈjum/
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VERB
-
fill or impregnate with an odor
orange blossoms perfumed the air in the garden -
apply perfume to
She perfumes herself every day
NOUN
- a distinctive odor that is pleasant
- a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor
How To Use perfume In A Sentence
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- There are drifts of feverfew, clouds of philadelphus, grasses whispering in the breeze, and everywhere the perfume of 1,000 blossoms keeping the countryside alive in the heart of London.
- The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
- So asking them to use mild soaps and weaning them away from perfumes and deodorants is our primary task,’ he said.
- Bond No.9, the perfumer known for naming their scents after various New York neighborhoods, is about to get high...lined. Now You Can Smell Like The High Line!
- At this point, however, the quartet was wandering in a perfumed garden of psychedelic modishness, and all the better for it.
- Things which experience gradual withdrawings and emptyings of their nature, and great and sudden replenishments, fail to perceive the emptying, but are sensible of the replenishment; and so they occasion no pain, but the greatest pleasure, to the mortal part of the soul, as is manifest in the case of perfumes. Timaeus
- As a rule of thumb, the villages of Barolo and La Morra produce the most perfumed win es, while Monforte d 'Alba and Serralunga produce more structured, powerful wines that require substantial cellaring. In Search of Barolo
- After that we give her a spritz of dog perfume. Times, Sunday Times
- A perfumer once told me that creating a fine perfume is fairly easy.