perfume
Example Sentences
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Before perfume, there was incense—in fact, the origin of the word perfume is per fumum, a Latin term meaning “through smoke.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
He also said that their two children reminded him of "the best" of Michelle and that they "ask for her perfume so they can still smell her".
From BBC • May 20, 2026
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
Her gentle smile, her luminous eyes, her rose scented perfume filled me with an inner calm, and I felt blessed.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Vocabulary lists containing perfume
The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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Unit 16
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