Etymology

perfume

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Today it means: A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor. Full definition →

Middle French parfum
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  1. Middle French · borrowed fromparfum
  2. English todayperfume

Borrowed from Middle French parfum, perfum. Doublet of parfum.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.