perfume

A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.countableuncountable

• Among the Turks, an exciting compound consists of olibanum, myrrh, camphor, musk, in pulverized form. The resultant perfume is said to affect the genitals.

A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.countableuncountable

• She bought a perfume at the airport.

To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.transitive