different between perfumer vs perfume

English

Etymology

From perfume +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??fju?m?/, /?p??fj?m?/

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.

Synonyms

• parfumier
• perfumier

Related terms

• perfumery

Translations

Anagrams

• prefemur

Catalan

Etymology

perfum +? -er

Noun

perfumer m (plural perfumers, feminine perfumera)

1. perfumer

Related terms

• perfumeria

Further reading

• “perfumer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “perfumer” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “perfumer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “perfumer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Middle French

Verb

perfumer

1. Alternative form of parfumer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French parfum. Doublet of parfum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??fju?m/
• (US) pûr'fyo?om", IPA^(key): /?p?fju?m/ or enPR: p?r-fyoo?m', IPA^(key): /p??fju?m/
• (General American):

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?p?fju?m/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /p??fju?m/

Noun

perfume (countable and uncountable, plural perfumes)

1. A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.

Synonyms

• (pleasant smell): aroma, fragrance, scent
• (substance providing a pleasant smell): fragrance, scent

Derived terms

• acoustic perfume
• perfumelike
• perfumey

Translations

Verb

perfume (third-person singular simple present perfumes, present participle perfuming, simple past and past participle perfumed)

1. (transitive) To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

Translations

Related terms

• perfumed
• perfumery

References

• perfume in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Occitan perfum.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: per?fu?me

Noun

perfume m (plural perfumes)

1. perfume (substance providing a pleasant smell)

Verb

perfume

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of perfumar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of perfumar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of perfumar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of perfumar

References

Spanish

Etymology

Nominal of perfumar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe??fume/, [pe??fu.me]

Noun

perfume m (plural perfumes)

1. perfume

   Synonyms: olor, aroma, fragancia

Related terms

• perfumar
• perfumería
• perfumero
• perfumista

Verb

perfume

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of perfumar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of perfumar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of perfumar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of perfumar.