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perfume

[pur-fyoom, per-fyoom, per-fyoom, pur-fyoom] / ˈpɜr fjum, pərˈfjum, pərˈfjum, ˈpɜr fjum /


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And the obsession with the peacock perfume wasn't going anywhere.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

To round things out, Hanawalt says she’s “selling hats” and even working with a perfume maker to eventually release a “horsey-themed” fragrance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Sisley is now a globally recognized high-end skin-care, makeup and perfume brand, employing 5,000 people with 8,049 stores and outlets worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

His passenger arrives—a young woman in high heels, shrouded in perfume and soaked by the rain, reassuring someone on the phone that she’ll be home soon—and the taxi rolls off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

But this was one memory she wanted to hold on to: no pain, just her mother holding her close, rocking her back and forth, and the smell of her perfume in her hair.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

The devil only occasionally played a part in ads for fashion products, such as perfumes, makeup and handkerchiefs.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

The company sends customers seasonal perfumes four times a year, packaged with a sample kit and the full-size perfume in a separate, sealed box.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

At another wholesale mall, iridescent streamers and gold mirror balls hung from the ceiling of Wen Linpeng's shop selling colourful soap bars, perfumes and make-up products.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

The vouchers were reportedly intended as raffle prizes and gifts to volunteers, but Joell-Deshields spent them on luxury perfumes and Apple products, the directors said.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026

In the background the news is playing, and the sizzle of something cooking in the kitchen perfumes the entire house.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

Perhaps the book’s greatest feat is its depiction of the historical moment when the modern overpowered the ancient—a world, now lost, of floridly costumed courtiers, fabled princes, exotic vices and perfumed palaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

For now, Estrada and Kolding are basking in their perfumed frontyard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025

Cold, tannic and gently perfumed, it’s the only part of my routine that makes me feel like I truly have it together.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025

Follow your nose through a garden, and pay attention to what memories are triggered: spring lilacs and newly turned soil, freshly cut lawn and lazy summer days perfumed with lavender, the damp decay of autumn.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

A few months after the return of Aureliano José, an exuberant woman perfumed with jasmine appeared at the house with a boy of five.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Its paprika and gentle heat bloom in the oven, perfuming everything around it.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026

Off heat, fold in lemon zest — the volatile oils hit the warm crumbs and bloom instantly, perfuming them.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026

Thick smoke of burning incense penetrates the room, perfuming everything sacred.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

When one skater went airborne for a tailslide, scraping the Pulaski stonework with the edge of his deck, Fuchs pointed an index finger upward as if the sound were perfuming the air.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022

She examines them sternly, going down the line, just as a gnat, attracted by the lotion perfuming her legs, lands on her big toenail and gets stuck.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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