different between perfumer vs perfumery

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

perfume +? -ery

Noun

perfumery (countable and uncountable, plural perfumeries)

1. (countable) A shop selling perfumes.
2. (countable) A factory where perfume is made.
3. (uncountable) The manufacture of perfume.

Translations