perfumer

English

Etymology

From perfume +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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

person who makes or sells perfume

• Arabic: عَطَّار (ʕaṭṭār)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (manufacturer) 香水製造商／香水制造商 (xiāngshuǐ zhìzàoshāng), (seller) 售香水者 (shòu xiāngshuǐ zhě)

• Finnish: hajuvesimyyjä, parfymisti
• French: parfumeur (fr) m
• Galician: perfumeiro (gl), perfumista (gl)
• German: Parfümeur (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: μυρεψός m (murepsós)

• Gujarati: સરૈયો (saraiyo)
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• Irish: ungadóir m
• Italian: profumiere m
• Japanese: パフューマー (pafyūmā), 調香師 (ちょうこうし, chōkōshi)
• Korean: 조향사 (johyangsa)
• Persian: عطار (fa) (attâr), عطرفروش (atr-foruš), عطرساز (atr-sâz)
• Portuguese: perfumista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: parfumier (ro) m, parfumieră f
• Russian: парфюме́р (ru) m (parfjumér)
• Spanish: perfumista (es) m

Anagrams

• prefemur

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Middle French

Verb

perfumer

1. Alternative form of parfumer