perfumer
UK/pəˈfjuːmə/
perfumer noun: a person who makes or sells perfume.
Noun
perfumer (plural perfumers)
- 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.1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
- One who perfumes something.
perfumer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
perfumer in Hindi
- perfumer
- अत्तार attār
perfumer in Tamil
- நறுமணப் பொருள் வினைஞர்
perfumer in Marathi
- a perfumer
- सुगंधी sugandhī
perfumer in Urdu
- perfumer
- گاندھی gāndhī
More languagesFewer languages
- perfumer in Telugu
- గంధకారి gandhakāri
- perfumer in Gujarati
- સરૈયો saraiyo
- perfumer in Arabic
- عَطَّار ʕaṭṭār, عَطَّارَة ʕaṭṭāra
- perfumer in Persian
- عطار 'attâr, عطرفروش 'atr-foruš, عطرساز 'atr-sâz, بوفروش būforūš
Synonyms of perfumer
Forms of perfumer
| plural | perfumers |
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Origin of perfumer
From perfume (noun and verb) + -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.
Words formed from perfumer
Questions about perfumer
- What does perfumer mean?
- Perfumer means a person who makes or sells perfume.
- What is perfumer in Hindi?
- Perfumer in Hindi is अत्तार (attār). See Perfumer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is perfumer?
- Perfumer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce perfumer?
- Perfumer is pronounced /pəˈfjuːmə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of perfumer?
- The plural of perfumer is perfumers.
Words near perfumer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: perfumer (page history and authors); अत्तार (Hindi) (page history and authors); perfumer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); सुगंधी (Marathi) (page history and authors); گاندھی (Urdu) (page history and authors); గంధకారి (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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