Example Sentences

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“No amount of perfume’s gonna make it anything but a skunk.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

It does this by diffusion, the same principle as when perfume’s scent spreads through a room.

From National Geographic • Aug. 8, 2023

While I cannot access a perfume’s scent directly, I am able to infer the qualities of its scent by descriptive context.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2023

“I would say it has a good scent,” Trump said when he was asked, on the occasion of the perfume’s launch, in 2012, what success smelled like.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 26, 2017

The spirit heard; and all again was dark; Save, as before, the melancholy flame Of the full moon; and faint, unfrequent spark Which from the perfume's burning embers came.

From Zophiel A Poem by Brooks, Maria Gowen