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This dish, colored with saffron and perfumed with warm spices, was inspired by a meal I recently enjoyed in Rafidi’s luxuriously updated restaurant, and shares his locavore approach.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

For now, Estrada and Kolding are basking in their perfumed frontyard.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2025

The smell of sewage lightly perfumed the air.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2025

People gather in crowds to pelt each other with perfumed, coloured powder called gulal.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2023

Now, sitting in this cave of lightly perfumed silk, what had seemed constant and unquestionable feels as delicate as the steam floating over her tea.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern