parfum

plural parfums

1. uncountableusuallycosmeticsFragrance; perfume.

   For Christmas, give a jewel-like flacon of this most exclusive and personal of parfums.

   1930, The New Yorker, volume 6, page 111

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   Did you ever dream of a Beauty Shop De Luxe? A charming place of sweet parfums, crystal mirrors, flowered chintzes and soft pastel tints—a lovely salon of beauty, where fresh colors and smart furniture make beauty rites an occasion of pleasure and inspiration?

   1926, The Magazine of The Women’s City Club of Detroit, page 42

   WANTED 10 top flight salesmen in different sections to introduce fine line of parfums made expressly to sell in jewelry stores, also lighters and other exclusive imports.

   1944 April, Jewelers’ Circular-Keystone, page 232

2. uncountableusuallyperfumeryA solvent containing around 15% to 40% aromatic compounds.