perfume
Example Sentences
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He also said that their two children reminded him of "the best" of Michelle and that they "ask for her perfume so they can still smell her".
From BBC • May 20, 2026
“It’s a huge world,” Botrous says of perfume.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Maybe one person’s stink is another’s perfume; maybe we’ve gone nose-blind to all fetidness.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
Subscribers have two weeks to try out the sample kit and decide if they want to keep the full-size perfume.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
Now that she was sitting, I could hug her around the neck, kiss her soft, powdered face, smell the fruity perfume she put on for special occasions.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Vocabulary lists containing perfume
The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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Unit 16
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