perfume
Example Sentences
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Maybe one person’s stink is another’s perfume; maybe we’ve gone nose-blind to all fetidness.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
Buying perfume online can be a gamble: Unless shoppers have smelled the fragrance in real life, they have to buy it without testing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
“You’d drive down here in the spring and it’d smell so good you’d think you were in a perfume shop,” said Dantzler, as we passed through Polk County.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
Online shoppers chasing a bargain are at risk of buying fakes, with disturbing cases including perfume contaminated with horse urine.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Some kids said they smelled something on the bus, but who doesn’t?—egg sandwiches, poison ivy medicine, Alice Wendleken’s Little Princess perfume.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
Vocabulary lists containing perfume
The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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Unit 16
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