perfumer

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perfumer

  • /pəˈfjuːmə/ UK
  • /ˈpəːfjʊmə/ UK

Where it comes from

From perfume (noun and verb) + -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.

noun perfumers

  1. A person who makes or sells perfume. 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.

Similar: parfumier, perfumier, scentmaker

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noun

Similar: parfumier, perfumier, scentmaker

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noun person who makes or sells perfume

Españolperfumista
한국어조향사 johyangsa
日本語パフューマー pafyūmā, 調香師 chōkōshi
中文香水製造商 /香水制造商 xiāngshuǐ zhìzàoshāng, 售香水者 shòu xiāngshuǐ zhě
Portuguêsperfumista
Françaisparfumeur, parfumeuse
DeutschParfümeur
Italianoprofumiere
Românăparfumier, parfumieră
Русскийпарфюме́р parfjumér
العربيةعَطَّار ʕaṭṭār, عَطَّارَة ʕaṭṭāra

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@misc{perfumer_2026,
  title = {perfumer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/perfumer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}