perfume
Example Sentences
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Maybe one person’s stink is another’s perfume; maybe we’ve gone nose-blind to all fetidness.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
Buying perfume online can be a gamble: Unless shoppers have smelled the fragrance in real life, they have to buy it without testing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
Eighteenth century activities included croquet and designing a custom perfume, all accompanied by fashion photography.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
“You’d drive down here in the spring and it’d smell so good you’d think you were in a perfume shop,” said Dantzler, as we passed through Polk County.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
On the other hand, once again I bore screecher perfume, which would make it difficult for me to pass unnoticed.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
Vocabulary lists containing perfume
The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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Unit 16
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