noun
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a place where perfumes are sold
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a factory where perfumes are made
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the process of making perfumes
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perfumes in general
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of perfumery
Example Sentences
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Post-pandemic, she began frequenting L.A. shops Scent Room, Scent Bar, Le Pink & Co and Beverly Hills Perfumery, befriending sales associates and “nerding out together.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
Perfumery chain Douglas and long-distance bus operator Flix are considering IPOs in Germany next year.
From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2023
Pulse of Perfumery is just around the corner on Princess Street.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2019
Grasse is also home to the prestigious Grasse Institute of Perfumery, which offers a number of levels of perfume-making instruction, including a nine-month immersion experience that accepts only 12 students a year.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2017
In the article on Chemistry and Perfumery, in No. 47, you quote that "some of the most delicate perfumes are now made by chemical artifice, and not, as of old, by distilling them from flowers."
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus
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