perfume
Example Sentences
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Monique felt a mist fall over her and realized the passenger was spraying her down with perfume.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
Born on a council estate in south-east London, Malone founded her perfume company in the early 1990s.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Don eventually remarried and had three more kids, but he held on to a big box of Cynthia’s clothes and other keepsakes, including a lock of hair and bottle of her perfume.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
A member of the public was killed after handling the delivery device, a discarded perfume bottle, triggering the largest Western expulsion in decades of Russian diplomats alleged to be spies.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
I’m dying to see everyone, hug everyone, put my face down on the prayer-hall rugs and breathe in that musty smell mixed with the perfume of all those who prayed there before me.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Vocabulary lists containing perfume
The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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Unit 16
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