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perfume

[pur-fyoom, per-fyoom, per-fyoom, pur-fyoom] / ˈpɜr fyum, pərˈfyum, pərˈfyum, ˈpɜr fyum /


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You can layer the soap with its corresponding perfume, body lotion and hand cream to build intensity, or, like the other Dries items in your collection, let it stand alone in its sublimity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Maybe one person’s stink is another’s perfume; maybe we’ve gone nose-blind to all fetidness.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

As long as the full-size product’s box is sealed, customers can return the perfume for a full refund or exchange it for another scent from the company’s stock of past fragrances.

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

It smelled like hot hair, nail polish remover, and a soft perfume, which Bridget had sprayed on at least eight out of twenty pulse points.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen




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