perfumer

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /pəˈfjuːmə/, /ˈpəːfjʊmə/

Noun

perfumer (plural perfumers)

1. A person who makes or sells perfume.
   • 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:

     Affairs went on thus until the latter had attained her twenty-second year, when her great beauty attracted the notice of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly among the desperate adventurers infesting that neighborhood.

2. One who perfumes something.

Related terms

• perfumery

Translations

• French: parfumeur
• German: Parfümeur
• Italian: profumiere
• Portuguese: perfumista
• Russian: парфюме́р
• Spanish: perfumista

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