perfume
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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
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
In February, Puig cautioned that it expects growth in the fragrance market to level off this year following a boom of perfume sales after the pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
The achievements come despite lukewarm reviews for the record, with The Telegraph saying it had "all the emotional heft of a perfume advert".
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
Some kids said they smelled something on the bus, but who doesn’t?—egg sandwiches, poison ivy medicine, Alice Wendleken’s Little Princess perfume.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
Vocabulary lists containing perfume
The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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Unit 16
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