perfume
A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.
Other meanings
A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.
“She bought a perfume at the airport.”
Synonyms
- aroma
- fragrance
- scent
Related words
- perfumeless
- acoustic perfume
- Arizona perfume
- beperfumed
- perfumed
- perfumelike
- perfumer
- perfumery
- perfumier
- perfume ball
- unperfumed
Word history
From Middle French "parfum".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “perfume” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.