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perfume

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


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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

She also turned what used to be a gun closet into a “vault” filled with family heirlooms, including a typewriter, perfume, photos, jewelry and a flask.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 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

Bi Mutunga fanned faster, waving her perfume around.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray




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