perfumer

English

Etymology

From perfume (noun and verb) +‎ -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈfjuːmə/, /ˈpəːfjʊmə/

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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.

Synonyms

• parfumier, perfumier
• scentmaker

Related terms

• perfumery

Translations

person who makes or sells perfume

• Arabic: عَطَّار m (ʕaṭṭār), عَطَّارَة f (ʕaṭṭāra)
• Catalan: perfumer m
• 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) m, perfumista (gl) m or f
• German: Parfümeur (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: μυρεψός m (murepsós)

  Mycenaean Greek: 𐀀𐀩𐀞𐀿𐀃 (a-re-pa-zo-o)

• Gujarati: સરૈયો (saraiyo)
• 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)
• Latin: unguentārius m
• Persian: عطار (fa) ('attâr), عطرفروش ('atr-foruš), عطرساز ('atr-sâz), بوفروش sg (būforūš)
• Portuguese: perfumista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: parfumier (ro) m, parfumieră f
• Russian: парфюме́р (ru) m (parfjumér)
• Spanish: perfumista (es) m
• Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎖𐎈 (rqḥ)

Anagrams

• prefemur

Catalan

Etymology

From perfum +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pər.fuˈme]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peɾ.fuˈmeɾ]

Noun

perfumer m (plural perfumers, feminine perfumera)

1. perfumer

Related terms

• perfumeria

Further reading

• “perfumer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “perfumer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “perfumer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “perfumer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Middle French

Verb

perfumer

1. Alternative form of parfumer